Understanding Ancient Thought (in preparation)

First look at my new book, which should be available in June. 
This book is a compilation of essays drawn from a number of times and places. Some short, some long. All of them are meditations on our understanding of history (mostly ancient history), on the importance of philosophical ideas in antiquity, and also on our understanding of the human mind, then and now.
The ancient world is often very mysterious to us, since those who peopled that world believed different things. After the pas...