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Ethics and Character Formation in Sports: A Philosophical Perspective [PDF]

, 2016
The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) famously proclaimed that “God is dead and we have killed Him.” Might one say similarly that in today s “winner take all” society “sportsmanship is dead and we have killed it”?
Madigan, Timothy
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Epidemiology is a science of high importance

Nature Communications, 2018
Epidemiology dates back to the Age of Pericles in 5th Century B.C., but its standing as a ‘true’ science in 21st century is often questioned. This is unexpected, given that epidemiology directly impacts lives and our reliance on it will only increase in ...
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A Feminist Abolitionist reads Plutarch, Euripides, and Plato: Periclean Athens and Nineteenth Century America in Lydia Maria Child’s Philothea (1836)

Eugesta
In writing her 1836 novel Philothea, the abolitionist Lydia Maria Child drew on careful reading of Plutarch’s Life of Pericles, Euripides’ Ion, and Plato’s Republic.
Catherine Connors
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Pericles y los pícaros costeños,

Wani, 2014
En este escrito, su autor trata de probar la importancia del mestizaje y de la existencia de las etnias de La Costa en la conformación de la nacionalidad nicaragüense.
Miguel Ángel Herrera C.
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“Ahora piden comida y dinero”: La imagen del prostituto en la cerámica vascular ática del siglo V a.C. = «But Now they Want Food and Money»: The Image of the Male Prostitute in the Attic Vase Painting of the 5th Century B.C.E

Espacio, Tiempo y Forma. Serie II, Historia Antigua, 2019
Este artículo trata sobre la imagen del prostituto en la cerámica vascular ática del siglo V a.C. Como motivo iconográfico clave e invariablemente presentado junto a dichos individuos, ofrecedores de efímera belleza y placer, aparece el saco de dinero o ...
David Vendrell Cabanillas
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Review of "Defining Shakespeare: 'Pericles' as Test Case" by Macdonald Jackson [PDF]

, 2005
A favourable review of Macdonald P. Jackson's book, "Defining Shakespeare: 'Pericles' as Test Case", (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003)
Daalder, Joost
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From Pericles to Plato – from democratic political praxis to totalitarian political philosophy

Nordicum-Mediterraneum, 2012
Plato is normally taken as one of the founders of Western political philosophy, not at least with his Republic. Here, he constructs a hierarchy of forms of governments, beginning with aristocracy at the top as a critical standard for the other forms of ...
Øjvind Larsen
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Automated Word Puzzle Generation via Topic Dictionaries [PDF]

, 2012
We propose a general method for automated word puzzle generation. Contrary to previous approaches in this novel field, the presented method does not rely on highly structured datasets obtained with serious human annotation effort: it only needs an ...
Lorincz, Andras, Pinter, Balazs, Szabo, Zoltan, Voros, Gyula   +3 more
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The opening of Plutarch's Life of Themistokles [PDF]

, 2008
Plutarch begins the biography by selecting incidents and an epigram that anticipate the basic themes of Themistocles' life--his greatness, sometimes ambiguous, and his benefactions to all of ...
Duff, Timothy Elliott
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Perikles’ Wife: Chronological Calculations

Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies, 2004
The thrice-married woman at Plutarch Per. 24 probably divorced Hipponicus to marry Pericles ca. 455 and bore their son Xanthippus in the following year.
Robert D. Cromey
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