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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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The Peloponnesian War as Total War [PDF]
Este trabajo indaga sobre la pertinencia del concepto de “guerra total” aplicado a la Guerra del Peloponeso. Se observa una falta de consenso entre los especialistas modernos respecto de lo que hace que una guerra sea considerada total.
Olivera, Diego Alexander
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The circulation and distribution of classical Greek coinage
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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Lysias, Isocrates and the Trierarchs of Aegospotami
Isocr. 18 could have hired Isocrates, and the speaker of Lys. 21 and Eryximachus could have hired Lysias as speechwriters for their rhetorical skills. However, it is probable that Isocrates’ choice to criticize the former colleagues of Isocr.
Angelos Kapellos
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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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Athenian Finance in the Peloponnesian War
Mattingly Harold B. Athenian Finance in the Peloponnesian War. In: Bulletin de correspondance hellénique. Volume 92, livraison 2, 1968. pp.
Mattingly, Harold B.
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Policy Spandrels: How Design Decisions Can Open Up Spaces for Unintended Policy Change
ABSTRACT This article introduces the concept of policy spandrels to make sense of public policies producing second‐order effects that are unintentional from the perspective of policy design and yet are fraught with consequences. By analogy with architectural spandrels—leftover spaces that can be used for unforeseen purposes—policy change can be enabled
Martino Maggetti
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William Mitford on the origins of the confrontation between Athens and Sparta
William Mitford’s interpretation of the origins of the rivalry between Athens and Sparta was analyzed. W. Mitford considered the clash of Athens and Sparta as inevitable.
N.A. Yasnitsky
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What Makes a Demagogue? The Figure of the Rhetor in the Closing Years of the Peloponnesian War
It is usual to associate the word “demagogue” with bad political leadership. At worst, it is also usual to think about a leader that uses deception and feeds on the more primal emotions of the people to get what he wants.
Tomás Pacheco Bethencourt
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Mitford on the formation of control systems in Athens and Sparta before the Peloponnesian war [PDF]
The paper, historiographical by its nature, aims at examining the existing assessments of William Mitford's work and clarifying his interpretations of the particularities of the formation of political systems in Athens and Sparta before the start of the ...
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