Visnja Bojovic

Dear Classical Wisdom Reader, Napoleon was not actually that short... he was average height at the time. You can not see, unassisted, the Great Wall of China from space. And obvious to our Classics loving community, before Christopher Columbus, not everyone thought the world was flat. (Pythagoras, Aristotle and in the 3rd century BC Eratosthenes had already calculated the Earth's circumference with remarkable accuracy.) But perhaps the best ‘factoid’ of all...

Dear Classical Wisdom Readers, We almost took a turn away from the very serious and profound. Last week Classical Wisdom Members were treated to a Classical guilty pleasure - one of the raciest, raunchiest and outright hilarious plays of the ancient world - the delightfully subversive comedy “Lysistrata”. Members, you can access it here: But underneath most comedy (maybe slapstick aside) there are extremely important and poignant insights.

Dear Classical Wisdom Members, Happy Birthday Cicero! Today the great Roman senator and orator would turn 2129... but surely don’t look a day over 2119... right? I know I shouldn’t be biased, but actually Cicero is one of my more favorite ancient thinkers. In part because of his Eclecticism, which is personally something I can get behind.