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What Sustains Wars: Will to Fight Versus Military Might [PDF]
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Volume 1554, Issue 1, Page 66-86, December 2025.This essay examines how psychosocial forces shape will to fight through the Devoted Actor Framework (DAF). Devoted actors, bound by sacred, non‐negotiable ideals and fused group identities, pursue a quest for ontological significance that sustains conflict beyond material incentives.
Scott Atran
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Mitford on the causes of the Peloponnesian War [PDF]
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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Chemical Warfare Through the Ages: A Systematic Review From Antiquity to the Present [PDF]
Journal of Toxicology, Volume 2025, Issue 1, 2025.Chemical warfare means the use of chemical agents that have direct toxic effects on animals, plants and humans, as weapons. The first documented use of a chemical agent for warfare purposes occurred in ancient times around 10,000 BCE in South Africa when weapons were dipped in chemicals and then used to attack and defend from enemies.
Damian Alexander Honeyman +4 more
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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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Production and Operations Management, EarlyView., 2023 Abstract Economic sanctions and consumer boycotts are common tools to punish organizations for undesirable behavior and attempt to coerce them to change their actions. However, these tools occasionally spill over beyond the intended recipients and affect guiltless supply chain members, jeopardizing the principles of diversity, equity, and inclusion in ...
Timofey Shalpegin +2 more
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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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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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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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