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What Makes a Demagogue? The Figure of the Rhetor in the Closing Years of the Peloponnesian War
Annales Universitatis Mariae Curie-Skłodowska. Sectio K, Politologia, 2021 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]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2020 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 ...
Yasnitsky Nikolay +2 more
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Gender, Class, and Ideology: The Social Function of Virgin Sacrifice in Euripides’ Children of Herakles [PDF]
, 2007 This paper explores how gender can operate as a disguise for class in an examination of the self-sacrifice of the Maiden in Euripides’ Children of Herakles.
David Roselli
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Alliance Politics in the 21st Century Great Power Competition: A Power‐Balancing Coalition Framework
Asia &the Pacific Policy Studies, Volume 13, Issue 1, January 2026.ABSTRACT US‐China competition in the Indo‐Pacific is setting the stage for a new tale of alliance politics. To contain Beijingʼs expanding power and influence in the Indo‐Pacific, Washington is currently leading several coalitions, namely the US‐Japan Alliance, Quad, Squad, and AUKUS; To counter US balancing efforts, Beijing is now strengthening its ...
Brian C. H. Fong
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Talia dixit, 2019 Review to: 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 ...
Juan Carlos Iglesias-Zoido
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The Formula of Plague Narratives
Akademisk Kvarter, 2015 The article is a narratological investigation of a selection of plague tales. The selection spans millennia and different text types, technologies and genres, from The Bible to apocalyptical films, iPhone games and testimonials from Médecins Sans ...
Jørgen Riber Christensen
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The politics of weddings at Athens: an iconographic assessment [PDF]
, 2005 Despite recent scholarship that has suggested that most if not all Athenian vases were created primarily for the symposium, vases associated with weddings constitute a distinct range of Athenian products that were used at Athens in the period of the ...
Smith, Amy Claire
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Persistence and dynamic of forest snails in the Western Carpathians over the last 40 thousand years
Boreas, Volume 55, Issue 1, Page 98-109, January 2026.The glacial/interglacial cycles have shaped the landscape of temperate Europe for the past 2.5 million years, with open landscapes prevailing during the glacial and forested landscapes during the interglacial periods. However, the survival and recolonization strategies of temperate forest species during glacial phases remain poorly understood and hotly
Lucie Juřičková +5 more
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Aristophanes and his rivals [PDF]
, 1990 This paper provides an introduction to the work of Aristophanes’ main rivals, especially Cratinus and ...
Heath, M.
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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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