290: IN MEMORIAM
This is an intensely personal column. My beloved wife, Janet, died some weeks ago. Naturally, I wrote an obituary of her for the local newspaper. Work being my only solace and distraction from grief, I thought it an appropriate moment to illustrate how Roman (there are also Greek examples available) men commemorated their womenfolk. (This does not arise in the case of Fort, who predeceased his wife Anna. As reported in Steinmeyer’s biography (p274), the headed its obituary with “Foe of Science”, going on to describe him as “a quiet man with a dread of society” who had written “four astonishing