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Resisting Hubris: For A Stoic Ethics of Power in Leadership Development
Business Ethics, the Environment &Responsibility, Volume 35, Issue 4, Page 3725-3734, October 2026.ABSTRACT This essay advances a philosophical and Stoic reinterpretation of hubris that challenges the reductionist treatment it has received in contemporary management research. Whereas most studies, shaped by a positivist epistemology, have sought to quantify the effects of leader hubris on performance, this essay reclaims the concept's original ...
Valérie Petit, Xavier Pavie
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Posthumous Veneration of King Leonidas in Sparta
Ученые записки Казанского университета: Серия Гуманитарные наукиThis article examines several narratives about the posthumous veneration of King Leonidas in Sparta. The details of the funeral ceremony held for him are analyzed.
L. G. Pechatnova
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Crossroads of the Life of Vittorio Alfieri
Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Volume 49, Issue 3, Page 375-392, September 2026.Abstract This article examines Vittorio Alfieri's Life as a deliberately constructed narrative of cultural, linguistic, and political self‐fashioning within eighteenth‐century European intellectual networks. Rather than treating the autobiography as a transparent record of experience, the article argues that Alfieri retrospectively reorganizes his ...
Sara Gallegati
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External‐World Skepticism and the New Ethics of Belief
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Volume 113, Issue 2, Page 285-297, September 2026.ABSTRACT External‐world skepticism challenges, among other things, the epistemic credentials of beliefs about other people. Some external‐world skeptics deny that I know my loved ones exist; some claim that my belief that my loved ones exist is epistemically impermissible. However, abandoning this belief would be highly unattractive.
James Fritz
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The Painterly Materiality of Clouds in Antony and Cleopatra and Hamlet
Renaissance Studies, Volume 40, Issue 4, Page 589-608, September 2026.Abstract This article examines the cloud‐gazing scenes in Antony and Cleopatra and Hamlet through the lens of early modern artistic theory and material practices, particularly the art of limning. Building upon existing philosophical and poetic interpretations of Shakespearean clouds as metaphors for ephemerality and memory, the essay argues that the ...
Anne‐Valérie Dulac
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Δημαγωγοί e δημαγωγία nella storiografia greca d’età romana
Erga-Logoi, 2019 This paper focuses on the semantic and historical evolution of the term δημαγωγός in Greek historiography and political oratory from Polybius to Cassius Dio. Apparently, Polybius was aware only of the polemical meaning of the term (i.e.
Gianpaolo Urso
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“Flames Over Persepolis”: New Scientific Evidence Supporting Historical Perspectives
Archaeometry, Volume 68, Issue 3, Page 421-433, June 2026.ABSTRACT This study investigates the burning of Persepolis Terrace, historically attributed to Alexander III in 330 bce. A review of classical accounts and excavation reports, combined with diagnostic surveys, confirms the fire's historicity and provides novel insights.
Maria Letizia Amadori +10 more
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The treatise De liberis educandis attributed to Plutarch [PDF]
The Greek treatise De liberis educandis has been preserved as part of the corpus of Plutarch's Moralia, but is not now generally believed to be the work of Plutarch.
Abbot, Norman J. S.
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Renaissance Studies, Volume 40, Issue 3, Page 469-488, June 2026.Abstract Due to their prolonged and multicultural nature, councils functioned historically as hubs for the exchange of ideas, discourse, diplomacy and rhetoric, reflecting broader cultural trends. In the Middle Ages, no international forums were comparable to ecumenical councils, where diverse and influential groups from various regions convened to ...
Federico Tavelli
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