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Apostrophilia
I have another confession to make here.
Jun 29 • Dr Cristian Ispir
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Read them as though they were still alive
Dec 18, 2024 • Dr Cristian Ispir
Humble origins, extraordinary complexity
Dec 13, 2024 • Dr Cristian Ispir
Storytelling and immersion metrics
Aug 22, 2025 • Dr Cristian Ispir
How Rome built community
“Building community” is one of the great buzzwords of our age, spoken in boardrooms, on leadership retreats, across Linkedin feeds.
Jun 27 • Dr Cristian Ispir
Get up and leave
The first thing homo erectus did when he got properly up on his two legs was to leave.
Jun 22 • Dr Cristian Ispir
The least sexy on the list
The infrastructure of knowledge doesn't get the credit it deserves
Jun 19 • Dr Cristian Ispir
Clovis in a vacuum
Julius Caesar had the strange habit of watching himself think.
Jun 15 • Dr Cristian Ispir
The brazen lie is the most enduring
I have a confession to make.
Jun 9 • Dr Cristian Ispir
Between the road and the room
Homer’s Odyssey endures because the poet resists making easy choices
Jun 5 • Dr Cristian Ispir
Cicero and AI
The five canons of rhetoric are beyond the grasp of genAI
Jun 1 • Dr Cristian Ispir
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Biblonia
A Substack by Cristian Ispir discussing history, book cultures and social commentary, always from the perspective of a life-immersed historian seeking to bridge the ancient and the (late/post/hyper)-modern worlds. Posts every Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
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