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Le rêve d’Hippias chez Hérodote (VI, 107-108) : une question d’interprétation
Kentron, 2011 Hippias’ incestuous dream, as told by Herodotus in the sixth book of his Histories, led several historians to focus their studies on its sexual aspect.
Claire Jacqmin
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Cultural Criticism in Historical Studies (Case: Gaumāta's Rebel and Darius' Kingdom) [PDF]
پژوهشهای تاریخی ایران و اسلام, 2017 Perhaps the orientalists who studied the history of Iran, didn't comprehend the cultural context of Iran exactly. Today, we have to review our history by cultural discourse and recognize it by cultural criticism. In Achaemenid history, one of the debates
آرزو رسولی،
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Trading Zones Between Thick and Thin: Anthropological Description as Scaffold or Mosaic
American Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 1, Page 159-170, March 2026.ABSTRACT Referring to the work of historian of science Peter Galison, I argue that anthropology requires thin description as an essential counterpart for thick description. Thin accounts provide the scaffolding within which thick descriptions sit. Galison uses the idea of a “trading zone” connecting different communities who, despite their differences (
David Zeitlyn
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Éléments d’une anthropologie du voyage Lévi-Strauss et Hérodote
Caravelle, 2011 In the first pages of Tristes Tropiques, Lévi-Strauss dismisses the enterprise which he decides to adopt: narrate the story of his exploration voyage and his ethnographic quest in Amazonian territories.
Pascal Payen
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Some Notes on historical Thought and historical Science in Antiquity (Ancient Greece) [PDF]
Античный мир и археология, 2017 The article deals with the major factors of emergence of historical science (exactly as science, which presupposes investigation rather than a pure appraisal of facts) in Greece on the verge of Archaic and Classical periods.
Surikov, Igor Evgenyevich
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Enduring Crises of the Nation‐State: How Spatial Imaginations Reshape Identity and Dis/Unity
Geography Compass, Volume 20, Issue 3, March 2026.ABSTRACT This article reframes the contemporary “crisis” of the nation‐state not as a simple erosion of sovereignty but as a problem of spatial misalignment: adaptive states remain strategically embedded in dense transnational regimes, yet domestic legitimacy falters when unitary national imaginaries confront heterogeneous, multi‐sited social realities.
Erdem Bekaroğlu, Suat Yazan
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Defending the Divine: Plutarch on the Gods of Herodotus
Histos, 2015 Plutarch’s attack on Herodotus’ characterisation and portrayal of the gods in the de Herodoti malignitate and Plutarch’s own portrayal of the divine in his Persian-War Lives show a similar approach and orientation, arising from Plutarch’s belief that ...
John Marincola
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Carbonate sedimentology: An evolved discipline
The Depositional Record, Volume 12, Issue 1, February 2026.Abstract Although admired and examined since antiquity, carbonate sediment and rock research really began with Charles Darwin who, during a discovery phase, studied, documented and interpreted their nature in the mid‐19th century. The modern discipline, however, really began after World War II and evolved in two distinct phases.
Noel P. James, Peir K. Pufahl
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Cenozoic Evolution of the North‐Eastern Mediterranean Basins
Tectonics, Volume 45, Issue 1, January 2026.Abstract The Eastern Mediterranean lies at the junction of the African, Arabian, and Eurasian plates, a region shaped by a long and complex tectonic history. While the Levant Basin in the southern sector has been extensively studied for hydrocarbon exploration, the northern domain offshore Cyprus, Turkey, Syria, and Lebanon remains less understood.
Nicolò Bertone +6 more
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The Influence of Herodotus on the Practical Philosophy of Aristotle
Labyrinth: An International Journal for Philosophy, Value Theory and Sociocultural Hermeneutics, 2016 The approach of this paper is a retrospective one. It is an attempt to show that many important ideas of Herodotus, a great ancestor of Aristotle, have influenced his practical philosophy.
Dimka Gicheva-Gocheva
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