Looking for Theophrastus - Laura Beatty
If only Hue & Cry had sung Never stop looking for Theophastrus instead of Linda!
Theophastrus might be relatively unknown but, as Laura Beatty points out, he was the equal of Plato and Aristotle, he alone invented botany and together with Aristotle he invented science; quite a CV for someone who has almost sunk without a trace. Beatty's book is the story of a journey to bring him back from oblivion. She looks for him in all of the places that he must have walked and lived.
'Against the dramatic context of his time - the end of democracy in Athens and the rise of Alexander the Great; the great battles and vast territorial expansion that followed; the flowering of the philosophy schools on which so much of our culture and thinking is founded - and following his cultural legacy through to the modern day, it explores how we perceive, understand and, most importantly, how we relate to the world around us, questioning what we lose from our way of living when we forget those ancients who first taught us to see.'
Hardback. 342 pages
Measurements:
14.5cm x 22.3cm x 3cm
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