Thucydides and the Synchronous Pandemic [PDF]
Athens Journal of History, 2021 Thucydides survived the pestilence and gave a vivid portrayal of the Athenian Epidemic at the onset of the Peloponnesian War. He belongs to the rare group of historians who wrote history about events which had a personal experience.
Gregory T. Papanikos
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πρίω and πρίων in Aristophanes’ Acharnians, vv. 34–36 [PDF]
Studia Litterarum, 2023 The article deals with a joke in vv. 34–36 of Aristophanes’ “Acharnians.” Dicaeopolis describes the anguish he feels because of the war and the unwillingness of his fellow citizens to make peace. He longs for his village and his deme and dreams of peace;
Boris M. Nikolsky
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Remarks on the History of the “Triple Alliance”: Perdiccas II, Brasidas, and Chalcidian Poleis in the Thracian Campaign [PDF]
Античный мир и археология, 2017 The article examines the history of the “Triple Alliance”, formed by the the poleis of Chalcidice, and ruler of Macedonia, Perdiccas II, and Sparta, the alliance that lived about a year: from spring 424 BC to the early summer of the&
Sinitsyn, Alexandr Alexandrovich
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Gerión, 2020 Reseña del libro de Lucia Cecchet, Poverty in Athenian Public Discourse. From the Eve of the Peloponnesian War to the Rise of Macedonia (=Historia Einzelschriften 239), Stuttgart, Franz Steiner Verlag, 2015, pp. 283 [ISBN: 978-3-515-11160-7].
Aida Fernández Prieto
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Professionalisierung und Ethnographie – Xenophon Über die Thraker
Classica Cracoviensia, 2022 Ethnography from the 4th century BCE after the Peloponnesian War and up to Alexander’s campaign has so far been underrepresented in ancient historical research.
Malte Speich
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Mitford on the causes of the Peloponnesian War
Ученые записки Казанского университета: Серия Гуманитарные науки, 2019 This historiographical paper discusses the causes of the Peloponnesian War as understood by W. Mitford, an English historian at the turn of the 18th – 19th centuries.
N.A. Yasnitsky
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Fear, Self-Pity, and War in Fifth-Century Athenian Tragedy: Ethos and Education in a Warrior Society [PDF]
Close Encounters in War Journal, 2021 In Greek culture, the natural connection between war and fear was acknowledged since Homer. However, during the Hellenic era (507-323 BC), war began to be represented on the stage in tragedies, in which the connection between war and fear included the ...
Maria Arpaia
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Οἶκτος e ἔλεος: contesti della ‘compassione’ nell’opera storica di Tucidide
Pallas, 2018 In this paper we examine the contexts in which Thucydides uses the Greek terms οἶκτος and ἔλεος, commonly translated with ‘pity’ or ‘compassion’. The lexical analysis aims at identifying the role, both positive and negative, that compassion plays within ...
Antonella Impieri
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Pericles' character in Old Attic comedy
Ученые записки Казанского университета: Серия Гуманитарные науки, 2020 The paper discusses Aristophanes’ plays and the surviving fragments of other Old Attic comedy authors as one of the most important sources on Pericles’ biography. The main themes of comic invectives at Pericles were analyzed.
O.A. Rykantsova
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Johanna Hanink (ed.), How to Think about War: An Ancient Guide to Foreign Policy. Thucydides Speeches from The History of the Peloponnesian War, Princeton y Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2019. Pp. 276. ISBN 9780691190150 [PDF]
Talia dixit, 2019 Review of Johanna Hanink (ed.), How to Think about War: An Ancient Guide to Foreign Policy. Thucydides Speeches from The History of the Peloponnesian War, Princeton y Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2019. Pp. 276.
Juan Carlos Iglesias-Zoido
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