Book Review: ‘How to Innovate: An Ancient Guide to Creative Thinking’

Book Review: ‘How to Innovate: An Ancient Guide to Creative Thinking’
An exaggerated depiction of the Syracusia, a large cargo and passenger transport ship of Ancient Greece and one of the largest of antiquity. An engraving from Robert von Spalart's “Historical Picture of the Costumes of the Principal People of Antiquity and of the Middle Ages,” Metz, 1810. Public Domain
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What is the origin of things? Did things come from nothing or from something? Those were just some of the many questions the ancient Greeks pondered, but it led them to be the first to truly innovate. They saw what was and made it better.

Armand D’Angour, professor of classics and a fellow at Jesus College at the University of Oxford, has translated portions of several ancient Greek works, adding his introductions to certain ideas, as part of Princeton University Press’s collection of Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers.

Dustin Bass
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Dustin Bass is the creator and host of the American Tales podcast, and co-founder of The Sons of History. He writes two weekly series for The Epoch Times: Profiles in History and This Week in History. He is also an author.
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