{"product_id":"how-to-be-9780374610104","title":"How to Be","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNicolson crafts a geography of the ancient world and a brilliant exploration of our connections to the past.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat is the nature of things?\u003cbr\u003eWhat is justice? How can I be myself?\u003cbr\u003eHow should we treat each other?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBefore 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThese 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. Xenophanes of Colophon was the first champion of civility. On the Aegean island of Lesbos, the early lyric poets Sappho and Alcaeus asked themselves, How can I be true to myself? On Samos,\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49401920913751,"sku":"9780374610104","price":24.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/how-to-be-9780374610104","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}