The serious Empire
2020-12-04
You don’t have to read Cicero to know that the Ancient Romans gave us so many popular words and phrases relating to the sentiment of the crowd which are still in use today. But how did they really feel about life? Abishek Verma has done some sentiment analysis on everyday writings of Roman people and comes to the conclusion that they were a little bit positive, but on the whole, quite Stoical.
Adam Oxford is a freelance journalist, media consultant and civic tech enthusiast. He also works closely with startups developing solutions to access to justice problems.