Aphorisms, Lost Greek Plays, A Russian Phrasebook: How Language Shapes Our World
Now playing · Sat Oct 17 · 2:45pm
Aphorisms, Lost Greek Plays, A Russian Phrasebook: How Language Shapes Our World
Three books on language: James Geary’s The World in a Phrase, a history of the aphorism from ancient China to meme-makers; James Romm’s Since You’re Mortal…, the first English verse translation of surviving fragments of the lost Greek plays; and Maria Kuznetsova and Dan Storyev’s How to Survive Authoritarianism, a lexicon for facing authoritarianism. Martin Puchner, author of Culture: The Story of Us, moderates.