Craig Dempster Knihy

This book explores the ways in which friendship was performed by Romans through readings of a wide range of literary texts - poems, novels and philosophical writings, letters both by emperors and by soldiers and commemorations on epitaphs commissioned by men, women, citizens and slaves. A richly varied and perhaps surprising picture emerges.

Choosing Joy, a deftly-woven mosaic of memories, tells John Dempster's story, with particular focus on his life-long quest to find a way of being which is at once joyful, life-affirming and true to his own experience.