Luck, Fate and Fortune: Antiquity and Its Legacy by Esther Eidinow

Luck, Fate and Fortune: Antiquity and Its Legacy

Esther Eidinow

213 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history sociology challenging informative medium-paced
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The impulse to try to anticipate the future, and make sense of apparently random events, is irrepressible. Why and how the ancient Greeks tried to foretell the outcome of the present is the subject of Esther Eidinow's lively appraisal, which explo...

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