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The Failure of the Aetolian Deditio as a Didactic Cultural Clash in the Histories of Polybius (20.9-10) [PDF]
, 2014 This paper examines the Aetolian deditio in fidem of 191 as described by Polybius 20.9-10. Erich Gruen influentially interpreted Polybius’ description as inconsistent and exaggerated, on the grounds that Greeks and Romans from the 3rd and 2nd centuries ...
Moreno Leoni, Álvaro Matías
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Text and Topos: British Travellers to Real‐and‐Imagined Classical Sites, c. 1560–1820
History, Volume 110, Issue 393, Page 588-605, December 2025.Abstract Early‐modern British travellers to the Mediterranean often understood their journeys through the lens of classical texts and culture. Historians sometimes explain this as an imaginative phenomenon: travellers’ preconceptions shaped by classical knowledge guided their subsequent comprehension and activity.
PAUL STOCK
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L’octroi de la citoyenneté romaine aux Latins: un anachronisme de Cassius Dion
Erga-Logoi, 2014 In the fragments about the last Latin war, Cassius Dio depends on an author who probably lived shortly after the Social war and interpreted the history of the Latin war in the light of the events of his own time.
Gianpaolo Urso
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Clio@Themis, 2023 The prologue to the Discourses on the First Decade of Livy defines the methodological conditions of political science using a specific analogy between law, medicine and politics.
Laurent Gerbier
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Rousseau's Freedom as Recognition
European Journal of Philosophy, Volume 33, Issue 4, Page 1357-1374, December 2025.Abstract To yearn for freedom is to want to be seen by others as someone. Rousseau, I believe, held such a conception of freedom, alongside his intricate theory of human passions. This essay examines how freedom relates to such passions, and in particular, to the Rousseauian notion of amour‐propre.
Julian Perilla
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Material sources and written sources: case study of Livy’s Roman History.
Revista do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia, 1999 This article draws a parallel between the question of interpretation of the material sources and that of the writtten ones, from an analysis of Livy’s “Roman History” to demonstrate that the latter ones, though seemingly less problematic and more ...
Lucia Cutro
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‘Una piaga venuta da genti lontane’. Geografia e ideologia del conflitto nella terza decade di Livio
Lexis, 2020 The paper investigates Livy’s use of geographic and spatial references in his narrative of the Second Punic War, underlining the important role played by the ideal opposition between centre and periphery.
Beltramini, Luca
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Mucius Scaevola and the Essence of Manly Patientia [PDF]
, 2015 Patientia, the virtue of enduring physiological pain, poses a problem for Roman elite masculinities. The male body is supposed to be unpenetrated, but when pain is inflicted the body is often cut and pierced.
Wildberger, Jula
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A Radical Revolution in Thought: Frederick Douglass on the Slave’s Perspective on Republican Freedom [PDF]
, 2020 While the image of the slave as the antithesis of the freeman is central to republican freedom, it is striking to note that slaves themselves have not contributed to how this condition is understood.
Coffee, Alan M. S. J.
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TOWARD A CONJECTURAL HISTORY OF CONJECTURAL HISTORIES
History and Theory, Volume 64, Issue 4, Page 56-74, December 2025.ABSTRACT Most intellectual historians use the term “conjectural history” to designate a new form of speculative history created in eighteenth‐century Scotland by Adam Smith and a few others. These writers traced the development of human society and culture through conjectural reasoning based on philosophers’ views about human nature and travelers ...
ANTHONY GRAFTON
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