ancient Greek history
Why Cicero’s life and times have never seemed more relevant
The philosopher and orator with extraordinary powers of persuasion spent his life making his ideals workable – among them being a harmonious state based on checks and balances
Eureka moments
Pythagoras, Euclid and Archimedes viewed mathematics in a very different way to us, but Reviel Netz helps us glimpse the minds of antiquity’s great thinkers
