Garden in the Universe

Title: Garden in the Universe

Author: John Van Eck

Binding: Paperback

EAN: 9789061684565

Condition: Good

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Description:
Athens, so many years before Christ. A young man, Pythocles, flees the city and is on his way to the garden outside the Dipylon Gate, where the Master resides and teaches in the summer. Pythocles, driven by unrest, is searching for the secret of the Master, in whom we easily recognize the ancient philosopher Epicurus (born around 340 BC). He longs for silence, for rest, for a state of the 'soul like the sea when the wind has calmed down, smooth and shining like a mirror that reflects the light unbroken'. The Master lives together with his pupils, a slave, a hetaera, an illiterate black slave, a citizen who has emigrated from Athens because of the tyrant Demetrius, in the idyllic garden, where he gives lectures and holds conversations with them. Pythocles proves to be an inquisitive pupil, who drinks in the word of the Master. He learns that he need not be afraid of anything. 'Not for the gods, not for death. Not for want, if you can