What a baker from ancient Pompeii can teach us about happiness

What a baker from ancient Pompeii can teach us about happiness: What a baker from ancient Pompeii can teach us about happiness In a testament to its resiliency, happiness, according to this year’s World Happiness Report, remained remarkably stable around the world, despite a pandemic that upended the lives of billions of people. As a classicist, I find such discussions of happiness in the midst of personal or societal crisis to be nothing new.