Although the roman empire is often seen as harsh and unforgiving, an element of philanthropy did exist in the ancient world. As heirs, conquerors, and unconscious emulators of the Greeks, the Romans assumed more regulation of what thee greek called philanthropia and...
The people of the ancient Meditteranean region are owed a lot of credit for the modern definition of philanthropy. Dating all the way back to third-millennium B.C.E, Babylonian rulers decreed certain punishments to those who took advantage of the weak. Those...
