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Views from the East: Changing Attitudes to Venice in Late Byzantium
Renaissance Studies, Volume 39, Issue 4, Page 550-570, September 2025.Abstract This paper explores the changing attitudes towards Venice in late Byzantine texts. It argues that, along with the strengthening of political and cultural ties between Byzantium and Venice, the Byzantines' perspectives evolved from rejection to admiration. As scholars like Demetrios Kydones and Manuel Chrysoloras began to teach Greek in Venice,
Florin Leonte
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Graikų karų su persais recepcija romėniškoje Graikijoje: Herodotas Plutarcho akimis | Reception of Greco-Persian wars in Roman Greece: criticism of Herodotus in Plutarch [PDF]
Literatūra (Vilnius), 2005 The traditional image of Sparta in the European cultural tradition is an idealized distortion of reality, based on the works of non-Spartan writers in both Greek and Roman antiquity. Plutarch has influenced our image of Sparta more than any other author,
Nijolė Juchnevičienė
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Respublica noumenon: Kant, Rousseau, and Plato's Republic
The Southern Journal of Philosophy, Volume 63, Issue 3, Page 387-409, September 2025.Abstract This article examines the philosophical sources for Kant's interpretation of Plato's Republic and its impact on his conception of the ideal state. I argue that Kant's knowledge of Plato was not derived from Plato's writings, but from secondary accounts.
Michael Kryluk
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A Flight Back to Ground: Jung’s Recalcitrant Fourth as Rape into Consciousness. Symbolic Rape and Literal Rape in Persephone’s Myth [PDF]
J Anal PsycholAbstract Patricia Berry’s interpretation of the Demeter/Persephone myth, and her concept of rape into consciousness, illuminate intrapsychic dynamics. However, this symbolic lens may inadvertently distance us from the devastating nature of literal rape—a reality the Homeric Hymn encapsulates.
Barbara Cerminara
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Earth and Space Science, Volume 12, Issue 8, August 2025.Abstract Accurately detecting the edges of subsurface geological structures from potential field anomalies remains a fundamental challenge. We applied the HTHG (Hyperbolic tangent function with horizontal and vertical derivatives of Total Horizontal Derivative) method to enhance subtle details in lunar gravity anomalies, focusing on the Aristarchus ...
Hanbing Ai +4 more
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autiniai stereotipai klasikinėje ir romėniškojoje Graikijoje: Herodotas ir Diodoras apie graikus ir kitus | National stereotypes in classical and Roman Greece: Herodotus and Diodorus about Greeks and the others [PDF]
Literatūra (Vilnius), 2006 Though Diodorus, who lived in politically and economically decayed Greece, dominated by Romans, is separated from Herodotus, the historian of independent and victorious Greece, by the interval of four centuries, the conception of Greekness as reflected ...
Nijolė Juchnevičienė
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Archaeometry, Volume 67, Issue S1, Page 131-153, June 2025.Abstract Human genealogies serve multiple functions beyond documenting one's pedigree. They operate as complex social frameworks that structure knowledge, delimit group membership, explain historical causation, are political tools, and provide chronological foundations for understanding past events and processes across diverse knowledge systems ...
Isaac H. McIvor +7 more
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CELEBRATING THE PAST: HORACE’S ODES AS AIDE MÉMOIRE
Akroterion, 2012 <p>In Travels with Herodotus Ryszard Kapuscinski writes:</p> <p>Herodotus admits that he was obsessed with memory, fearful on its behalf. He felt that memory is something defective, fragile, impermanent – illusory, even.
S. Thom
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Posthumous Veneration of King Leonidas in Sparta
Ученые записки Казанского университета: Серия Гуманитарные наукиThis article examines several narratives about the posthumous veneration of King Leonidas in Sparta. The details of the funeral ceremony held for him are analyzed.
L. G. Pechatnova
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