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Is anything really new?
The ancient manuscript, discovered in a dusty corner of some forgotten library, has become a literary trope so familiar we hardly question it.
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Dr Cristian Ispir
Emojis are not the new hieroglyphs
We've all heard this claim: “Emojis are the modern hieroglyphs!" It's catchy, it's everywhere, and it's completely wrong.
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Dr Cristian Ispir
More than a library
When we think of the Library of Alexandria, we often fixate on its fiery demise—yet the true marvel lies in the intellectual blaze that burned within…
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Dr Cristian Ispir
Dead philosopher walking
Aristotle vanished from Western Europe not with a bang but a whimper.
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Dr Cristian Ispir
Vegetius Five: leadership capabilities in the age of Roman military supremacy
Ever wondered why we keep buying leadership books when the Romans nailed it 1,600 years ago?
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Dr Cristian Ispir
Between originality and derivation
Imagine Virgil - the Roman poet, not your neighbour - leaning over his (wax) tablet and asking ChatGPT to write an epic poem in the style of Homer:
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Dr Cristian Ispir
Descent into Self
In the dark wood of mid-life crisis, Dante finds himself lost, a predicament that resonates with the modern condition despite being written in the 14th…
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Dr Cristian Ispir

March 2025

Dominating the forum and the study
In the shark tank of Republican Rome, the unicorn who could wield both quill and political clout with equal virtuosity was vanishingly rare.
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Dr Cristian Ispir
The air we breathe
A worldview is the fundamental cognitive orientation of an individual or society encompassing knowledge, culture, and point of view.
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Dr Cristian Ispir
The architects of ancient strategy
The art of strategizing is timeless and fundamental.
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Dr Cristian Ispir
Oracular ambiguity
The most profound truths often reside in the spaces between certainty.
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Dr Cristian Ispir
Textual communities or consumer demographics?
The written word once bound communities through shared ritual and meaning.
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Dr Cristian Ispir
Unsmart workplace
How did knowledge workers operate before electricity, computers, or even mechanical printing?
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Dr Cristian Ispir
The man who wrote the heavens down
Ptolemy, his universe and a lesson for us here on Earth
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Dr Cristian Ispir
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The world's first business case study
What if Johannes Gutenberg had filed for an IPO?
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Dr Cristian Ispir
The King’s Evil
Yesterday, the Times reported that King Charles performed CPR on dummies in London as part of a training programme.
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Dr Cristian Ispir
Patterns in the sky
When our ancient ancestors gazed up at the night sky, they didn't see random points of light scattered across the darkness.
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Dr Cristian Ispir
Rome was built in a day
It wasn’t finished in a day, of course, but Rome was built in a day.
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Dr Cristian Ispir
Let's get stone
How medieval Gothic architecture
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Dr Cristian Ispir
Why everything we don’t say matters
There is a context for everything.
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Dr Cristian Ispir
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February 2025

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