The goal of painting was representationl you had to try and make something that looked like reality. For the first time, in the fifth century b c, we have really lifelike sculpture. The view that the greeks only have produced blind, white sculpture is just completely wrong.
Armand D’Angour is a professor of classics at the University of Oxford and the author of several books including Socrates in Love and his latest, How To Innovate. In this episode we discuss:- The 3 different types of innovation and how to use them to your advantage - How the Greeks thought about change and what we can learn from them- The relationship between innovation and ethicsWe also cover the true story behind Archimedes’ famous “Eureka!” moment and Aristotle’s thoughts on political innovation.