Welcome to the WBZ Book Club. I'm Jordan Rich. A new book from
Adam Nicholson that looks interesting. It's called How to Be Life Lessons from the
Early Greeks. Nicholson has authored other books about Greece, including Life Between the
Tides and Why Homer Matters, but he goes beyond Socrates and Aristotle and Plato
in this new one, looking at other lesser known Greek philosophers. He calls
the period from seven hundred to five hundred BC that of the Dolphin Mind,
based on their living and trading off the sea. This new book, How
to Be, incorporates history, of course, but also philosophy in art,
culture, language, and archaeology. It's a reflection on what struggles the philosopher's
faced trying to understand life as we know it, grappling with existential questions,
including a big one, does love rule the universe? What's most impactful is
the realization that the ancient Greek philosophers struggled back then with things we still struggle
with today. How to Be Life Lessons from the Early Greeks. The Book
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