The grief of Cicero
How the greatest mind of his age diagnosed his depression and overcame it, leaving the finest work of consolation ever composed.
This is Who made our minds? my Thursday essay probing the greatest, cruellest and most beautiful minds of the past 5,000 years, inspired by my book, The Soul: A History of the Human Mind (Penguin 2024). Coming up: The Tao, Female Mystics and Homer’s Psyche.
PS I’ll be discussing my book with Richard Fidler at Bookoccino on 3rd August and then at The Fes…
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