How to Be: Life Lessons From the Early Greeks

Author:	Nicolson, Adam
Binding:	Paperback
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ISBN:	9781250338167
Publisher:	Picador
Language:	English
Page Count:	356
Publication Date:	10/15/2024
Size:	8.25" l x 5.50" w x 1.00"
Series:	N/A

Category	Subject
History & Geography	Ancient
Philosophy	History & Surveys
Literary Collections	Ancient, Classical & Medieval

Before the Greeks, the idea of the world was dominated by god-kings and their priests. Twenty-five hundred years ago, in a succession of small eastern Mediterranean harbor cities, a few heroic men and women decided to cast off mental subservience and apply their own thinking minds to the conundrums of life.

These great innovators shaped the beginnings of western philosophy. Through the questioning voyager Odysseus, Homer explored how we might navigate our way through the world. Heraclitus, in Ephesus, was the first to consider the interrelatedness of things. On the Aegean island of Lesbos, the early lyric poets Sappho and Alcaeus asked themselves, "How can I be true to myself?" On Samos, Pythagoras imagined an everlasting soul and took his ideas to Italy, where they flowered again in surprising and radical forms.

Enhanced with maps, photographs, and artwork, How to Be is an expedition into early ideas. Adam Nicolson takes us to the dawn of investigative thought and makes the fundamental questions of the ancient philosophers new again. What are the principles of they physical world? How can we be good in it? And why do we continue to ask these questions? It is an enthralling, exhilarating journey.