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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]
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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Views from the East: Changing Attitudes to Venice in Late Byzantium
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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DNA and Etruscan identity [PDF]
From the time of Herodotus, who suggested that the Etruscans were immigrants to Italy, to the present day, the origin of the Etruscans has been debated.
Perkins, Phil
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Respublica noumenon: Kant, Rousseau, and Plato's Republic
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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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]
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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Herodot. Notă filologică privind două probleme controversate
Herodotus. A Philological Note on Two Controversial Issues On the basis of Herodotus’ references to the life of the Getic (C. IV, 94), the author investigates two controversial issues: 1 the monotheist, henotheist or polytheist character of the Getic ...
Traian Diaconescu
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Modern historiography on the ancient world has focused in the last few decades on the problems of Greek identity and self-awareness, as well as Greek relations to the nonGreek populations.
Ivan Matijašić
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CELEBRATING THE PAST: HORACE’S ODES AS AIDE MÉMOIRE
<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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The Babylonian bridal auction, described by Herodotus, is regarded as one of the earliest uses of an auction in history. Yet, to our knowledge, the literature lacks a formal equilibrium analysis of this auction.
Baye, M.R. (Michael) +2 more
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