2024-01-22
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Hello and welcome to Intelligence Squared, where great minds meet.
I'm producer Faye Adebita.
On the episode coming up today, we have Adam Nicholson, the writer and author whose past books have explored immersive and at times weighty topics such as our understanding of the Bible and the work of great poets such as Coleridge and Wordsworth.
He returns with a new book, how to be.
It looks at the early greek philosophers asking how the geography of the lands that they came from helped shape not only their own minds, but subsequently some of the most enduring ideas to spread throughout humanity over thousands of years, right up to the present day.
Joining Adam in conversation is the writer, academic and broadcaster Shahida Bari.
Let's hear from them both now.
Adam, as you may know, is the author of numerous books on history, landscape and nature, including an Unfinished History, which won the 2009 Royal Society of Literature on Dacche Prize Sea, the Mighty Dead, why homer matters, and life between the tides in search of rock pools and other adventures along the shore.
His latest book, how to life Lessons from the Early Greeks, is a philosophical travelogue which takes the reader on a journey into the origins of western thought, placing classical thinkers he examines at the sight of their thought.
From Homer's Odysseus in Smyrna and Sappho in Lesbos to Pythagoras in Calabria and empedocles in Sicily.
The book is a journey through the eastern mediterranean harbour cities in which Adam argues a new kind of philosophical thinking took shape 2500 years ago.
Adam, welcome to intelligence squared and congratulations on the book.