The Greek Never Liked Anything New

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Greeks often thought of as people who were hesitant about a innovation. E, i'd love to go into that so specific but it was much more complex than that. Over a period of 500 years in which dozens, possibly hundreds, of innovations took place. There seems to be a bit of a paradox in the notion that these things emerged somehow despite greeks not wanting there to be anything new.

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.