Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb
Possibly the most erudite man in history. He taught himself Semitic Languages & translated Arabic proverbs into Latin. He knew Arabic, Greek, Latin, Hebrew, Syriac/Aramaic. He was to Montaigne (then considered a popularizing philistine) what Umberto Eco was to Fox News. https://t.co/WnvFGd2LXU — PolitiTweet.org
sententiae antiquae @sentantiq
"After having made himself master of Homer, he proceeded to the next of the Greek poets in chronological order, and… https://t.co/63O4EMjEDk
