The newest SAPERE volumes:

The present volume offers an edition, updated English translation of, introduction to, and seven multi-authored contributions on Galen’s small tract That the Best Doctor is also a Philosopher.

Lucian's essay "On Mourning" takes up ethical and religious questions that have been important to people at all times: How should a person deal with the pain when a close person is taken away from them through death?

The philosopher Salustios, inspired by Neoplatonism, outlines doctrines "about the gods, the world and human affairs".

Julian (331/32-363) was the only Roman emperor to turn from Christianity back to the old religion and tried to reverse the Constantinian turn. To do this, he also relied more on the imperial Roman tradition of sun worship.

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