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Gerión, 2022 The aim of this paper is to study Plato's use of landscape to convey the historical-political meaning of the Atlantis story. As the crux of the argument, I will argue two interlinked hypotheses: first, that the descriptions of Atlantis and primaeval ...
Nerea Terceiro Sanmartín
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Popper’s Ahistoricism: The Case of the Peloponnesian War
Profil, 2019 I criticize Popper’s projection of modern ideals (liberalism, egalitarianism, humanism) onto antiquity. Without attempting to defend Plato or disprove Popper’s normative conclusions, the article shows that The Open Society and Its Enemies strongly ...
Jan Buráň
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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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Why Are China and the U.S. Not Destined to Fall into the “Thucydides’ Trap”? [PDF]
China Quarterly of International Strategic Studies, 2018 With the rise of China and relative decline of the United States, the question of whether both countries will fall into the so-called “Thucydides’ Trap” — an analogy to the Peloponnesian War in ancient Greece — has triggered heated debate within ...
Ling Shengli, Lv Huiyi
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HistosThis paper reconsiders the representation of women in Thucydides and the possibility for a feminist interpretation of the Peloponnesian War. It analyses three key passages where the representation of women is highly idealised and subverts the normal ...
Rory O'Sullivan
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La influencia de la historia clásica y la guerra antigua en el realismo político estadounidense [PDF]
Revista Enfoques, 2012 Political realism is a school of thought that considers power relationships as independent of the wishes, preferences and theories of actors and spectators. Historical lessons are essential to it.
Horacio Carlos Cagni
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Delphi, war and the question of arbitration (500–400 BCE)
Social Sciences and Humanities Open, 2023 The purpose of this paper is to explore the Delphic oracle and arbitrations; Delphi’s impact on peace and conflict during the First and Second Peloponnesian Wars (460–445 BCE, and 432–404 BCE) in the Hellenistic world.
Adil Calap
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The circulation and distribution of classical Greek coinage
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract From a sample of the most prominent Greek city‐states, data involving a total of 999 hoards and 160,007 coins from 550 to 300 BC were collected to discern the relative magnitudes, consistency of issue, and distribution of Classical Greek coinages.
Zane Mullins
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Histoire, Médecine et Santé, 2022 Faced with the Covid-19 pandemic, many Heads of States have resorted to military metaphors, while the journalists and historians who were invited to recall the major epidemics of the past have regularly conjured up Thucydides’ account of “the Great ...
Reine-Marie Bérard
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Systematic Entomology, Volume 51, Issue 2, April‐June 2026.Genome‐wide and morphometric analyses of a Greek grasshopper complex (genus Chorthippus) uncover Middle Pleistocene divergence into two major clades separated by the Corinthian Gulf, with further diversification within the Peloponnese. Hybridization is geographically restricted and asymmetric, mainly from long‐winged to short‐winged taxa, indicating ...
Marina Trillo, Joaquín Ortego
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