How to Get Over a Breakup: An Ancient Guide to Moving On

An exclusive excerpt from Michael Fontaine and Princeton University Press

The Plato's Academy Centre and Mike Fontaine

Sep 16, 2025

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PAC would like to express their deepest thanks to Michael Fontaine and Princeton University Press for this exclusive excerpt from How to Get Over a Breakup: An Ancient Guide to Moving On.

Prof. Fontaine is also an esteemed speaker at our upcoming virtual event The Philosophy of Love and Relationships. This event uses ancient philosophy and modern psycho…

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Mike Fontaine

Mike Fontaine, Professor of Classics at Cornell, specializes in Latin literature from antiquity to the Enlightenment. His books explore willpower, free speech, and humor—a topic that once earned him a parody on Saturday Night Live.