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Posthumous Veneration of King Leonidas in Sparta
This 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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Synthesis of Late Burdigalian tectono‐stratigraphic events occurring in and around the southern Levant Basin. Highlighted are the active NW‐Se‐striking normal faults nucleating onshore Sinai and across the southern Levant Basin. The offshore strike‐slip fault networks are also highlighted and are believed to be related to the same event which nucleated
Amir Joffe +4 more
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HERODOTUS SCYTHIANS HISTORY: DETAILS OF NEW READING
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
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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A crowd of Gods: atheism and superstition in Juvenal Satire 13 [PDF]
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Uden, James
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PRINCIPIILE DEONTOLOGIEI ISTORICE ÎN OPERA LUI HERODOT
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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A Paleotectonic Atlas of the African Plate: Permian to Recent
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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Conversations in History: Arrian and Herodotus, Parmenio and Alexander
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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The End of Epicurean Infinity: Critical Reflections on the Epicurean Infinite Universe [PDF]
In contrast to other ancient philosophers, Epicurus and his followers famously maintained the infinity of matter, and consequently of worlds. This was inferred from the infinity of space, because they believed that a limited amount of matter would ...
Bakker, Frederik
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Dictionaries of the Ancient Greek language distinguish only two or three different meanings of the Greek word ὕστριξ. The present author analyses all the contexts and glosses where the word in question appears.
Witczak, Krzysztof
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