I threw in historical anecdotes, quotations from the ancients, and praise of a few visionaries.
From the ancients to the 20th century, it was philosophers who speculated about how the mind and brain might work.
This is 2009, and we have a repertoire of women poets from the ancients to our contemporaries to explore.
He also drew on the full range of speculative thinkers, from the ancients Lucretius and Valentinus through Vico, Schopenhauer and Kierkegaard, up to Lacan and Paul de Man.
From the ancients through to the Grand Tourists and the likes of Henry Miller, writers have waxed lyrical about Attica's splendid locale.
But this shared culture was distinctively modern, and while it may be seen to be descending from the ancients, it certainly did not derive from them in any clear and simple sense.
She draws on the responses of his first enthusiastic readers, "who praised his Stoic wisdom and his skill in collecting fine thoughts from the ancients", and also on Descartes, Pascal, the 17th-century libertines, Enlightenment philosophers, the Romantics, 19th-century moralists, Nietzsche, Virginia and Leonard Woolf, Stefan Zweig, and others.
Tell us about a time when lessons learned from the ancients contributed to your success.
Forbes: Tell us about a time when lessons learned from the ancients contributed to your success.
It surveys the streams of thought leading from the "ancients" (the Chinese golden age?) to Zhuangzi.
Bose: There are two significant sources of inspiration from the ancients that continue to spur my success.
