Adam Nicolson

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