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Women in Herodotus’ Oracles. A Look beyond the Pythia
Erga-Logoi, 2018 Women other than the Pythia are excluded from the consultation and reception of oracles, but they are nevertheless present in the oracular passages of Herodotus’ Histories. This paper focuses on the roles that they play in these passages, with the aim of
Carmen Sánchez-Mañas
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A Paleotectonic Atlas of the African Plate: Permian to Recent
Journal of Petroleum Geology, Volume 48, Issue 4, Page 231-279, October 2025.ABSTRACT The fragmentary release of petroleum data defining the deep structure and stratigraphy of African basins has been integrated with existing literature to compile 19 tectonic maps over key geological intervals from Permian to Recent times. African plate margins range in their age of opening from Late Triassic (off Lebanon), through Early/Middle ...
Duncan S. Macgregor, Colin V. Reeves
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Geoarchaeology, Volume 40, Issue 5, September/October 2025.ABSTRACT Over the past century, archaeological investigations at the ancient city of Bubastis (Tell Basta) have revealed a complex urban landscape featuring temples, a palace, and cemeteries. However, the eastern part of the city remains poorly understood.
Philipp Garbe +5 more
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PRINCIPIILE DEONTOLOGIEI ISTORICE ÎN OPERA LUI HERODOT
Studia Universitatis Moldaviae: Stiinte Umanistice, 2010 The paper examines the Histories of Herodotus as a manifesto of a historian’s deontological principles. The scientific and moral attitude of the “father of history” towards history are analysed in the introductory paragraph, as well as along the entire ...
USM ADMIN
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HERODOTUS SCYTHIANS HISTORY: DETAILS OF NEW READING
Вестник Северо-Кавказского федерального университета, 2022 The article analyzes the study of Ukrainian scientists V.Y. Murzin and S.V. Petkov, considering the events of Scythian history as presented by the « father of history» Herodotus.
Sergey L. Dudarev
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L’Oriente Vicino: le tradizioni sulla Lidia nello specchio di Erodoto
Erga-Logoi, 2018 This paper examines the different images of Lydia and Lydians as they are depicted in Herodotus’ Histories and in the earlier Greek literary tradition, focusing especially on the double-sided portrait of this civilization which seems to stem from the ...
Francesca Gazzano
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Conversations in History: Arrian and Herodotus, Parmenio and Alexander
Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies, 2011 Arrian’s account of Parmenio’s warning to Alexander at Persepolis is meant not only to evoke Herodotus’ account of Croesus and Cyrus, but also to critique Herodotus’ notion of endless reciprocity in history.
Janet D. Chaplin
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CAN HISTORY ABSOLVE? CAN HISTORY JUDGE?
History and Theory, Volume 64, Issue 3, Page 319-337, September 2025.ABSTRACT Appealing to history, rather than to God, to provide an ultimate judgment about human actions can have a justificatory or consolatory function. The former grants proleptic absolution for acts that may be morally dubious because of their benign consequences, while the latter enables victims in the present to gain a measure of relief by ...
MARTIN JAY
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Kant's nutshell argument for idealism
Noûs, Volume 59, Issue 3, Page 652-677, September 2025.Abstract The significance or vacuity of the statement, “Everything has just doubled in size,” attracted considerable attention last century from scientists and philosophers. Presenting his conventionalism in geometry, Poincaré insisted on the emptiness of a hypothesis that all objects have doubled in size overnight.
Desmond Hogan
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Herodoto and the perception of political geography in the Greek World
Studia Historica: Historia Antigua, 2013 The study of the perception of political geography in the Greek World through Herodotus' Histories is plenty of any kind of obstacles, given the complexity of aims and prospects of its author, but the attempt for searching the clues defining that ...
F. Javier GÓMEZ ESPELOSÍN
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