How to Be: Life Lessons from the Early Greeks

by Adam Nicolson

Book Overview

Nicolson crafts a geography of the ancient world and a brilliant exploration of our connections to the past.

What is the nature of things?
What is justice? How can I be myself?
How should we treat each other?

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 037461010X
• ISBN13: 9780374610104
• Release Date: October 2023
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.2"