Genius of the Ancient World
Within 100 years of each other, despite being separated by thousands of miles, three of the greatest minds in history - Buddha, Socrates and Confucius - helped to define what it is to be human.
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Within 100 years of each other, despite being separated by thousands of miles, three of the greatest minds in history - Buddha, Socrates and Confucius - helped to define what it is to be human.
In this three-part series, historian Bettany Hughes investigates three giants of ancient philosophy. In this episode...
In Greece, Bettany Hughes is on the trail of the influential maverick thinker Socrates, who was executed for his beliefs...
Bettany travels to China on the trail of Confucius, the great sage whose ideas have fundamentally shaped the country of...