How Plato and Pythagoras Can Save Your Life

When New York''s Big City nightclub owner, Nick Kardaras, woke up from a heroin overdose - doctors had already declared him dead - he felt a desperate need to understand not only why he''d been spared but what his addiction had been all about. His search for answers took him far and wide until he stumbled on the works of the ancient Greeks. In their writings, which he had always dismissed as dry a...