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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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Herodoto and the perception of political geography in the Greek World
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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Historical giants : forefathers of modern hospitality and tourism [PDF]
When tourism began and who the first the first tourists were is a question that many have tried to answer only to end up looking naive when new discoveries have proved their theories wrong. However, it is safe to say that it did not all start with Thomas
O'Gorman, Kevin D.
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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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This paper offers a hypothetical reconstruction of Euripides' lost Telephus, burlesqued in Aristophanes' Acharnians and Thesmophoriazusae. It defends the position that Telephus defended the Trojans, and suggests that Telephus made two defence speeches ...
Heath, M.
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CAN HISTORY ABSOLVE? CAN HISTORY JUDGE?
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
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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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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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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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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