The teachings of Stoic philosophy began and thrived in the Greek and Roman world until the 3rd century AD, and has since experienced multiple revivals right up to the modern day.
From the depths of their existential angst, these profound pooches ask some of the most pertinent questions of their time.
Euclid’s Elements of Geometry was a book that changed the world. In a sweeping history, Benjamin Wardhaugh traces how an ancient Greek text on mathematics – often hailed as the world’s first textbook – shaped two thousand years of art, philosophy and literature, as well as science and maths.
For the first time in English, one of the greatest masterpieces of historical writing: ‘Every civilized library must have a copy.’ CHRISTOPHER STACE, Telegraph
