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~ New Release - 2023
How to Be: Life Lessons from the Ancient Greeks
Prize-winning and bestselling writer Adam Nicholson travels through this transforming world and asks what light ancient thinkers can throw on our deepest preconceptions.
Sparkling with maps, photographs, and artwork, How to Be is a journey into the origins of Western thought, crafting a geography of the ancient world, and a brilliant exploration of our connections to the past that makes the ancient world feel new and accessible.
"This eminently readable tour of Greek philosophy from approximately 650 to 450 B.C. brings the ‘sea-and-city world’ of Heraclitus and Homer to life showing how the early Greeks developed intellectual habits, chief among them the use of questioning as the basis of knowing, which laid the groundwork for Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle, and for how we reason today." -- New Yorker