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Discussing the past: Moral virtue, truth, and benevolence in Plutarch’s On the Malice of Herodotus
, 2017 : The importance of παιδε ί α in Plutarch ’ s works has long been recognised. Thorough familiarity with the rich Greek tradition is felt to be crucial for a man ’ s self-under-standing and ‘ Greekness ’ .
G. Roskam +2 more
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The Literary Court: Reading Queen Charlotte
Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Volume 48, Issue 4, Page 509-524, December 2025.Abstract This article investigates the literary culture revolving around Queen Charlotte (1744–1818) between 1761 and 1818. The Queen's library, sold after her death in 1818, contained more than 4500 volumes, and the sales catalogue (1819) offers a fascinating glimpse into her collecting habits and reading interests. This article uses the catalogue, as
Mascha Hansen
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Feminismo/s, 2012 Archaeological findings help us to make an interpretation of history that is hidden behind the myths; I focus in particular those relating to the history of the oracle at Delphi and Dodona. In last times, the cult of Delphi, when Plutarch was a priest of
Neus Calvo Escamilla
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Una suggestione archilochea ne La Città Morta?
Archivio d’Annunzio, 2020 This note proposes the hypothesis that in La città morta, Act II, sc. I, d’Annunzio used a fragment of Archilochus, sent to us by Plutarch and Athenaeus.
Bisanti, Armando
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What Sustains Wars: Will to Fight Versus Military Might
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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Parmenide e Platone (e Aristotele) nel Contro Colote di Plutarco
Aitia, 2013 The chapters dedicated to Parmenides and Plato play a decisive role in the composition strategy of the Adversus Colotem, since this is where Plutarch most clearly defines the background dualist thesis that will help ...
Mauro Bonazzi
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Archaeometry, Volume 67, Issue 5, Page 1373-1390, October 2025.Abstract Architectural and engineering elements of the Roman civilization constitute an important cultural heritage. Nevertheless, not all ancient Roman cities and the roads connecting them have been found, mainly because classical geographical sources show a significant lack of precision.
Jesús M. Romera +2 more
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Did Down‐Regulated Instincts Enable Human Gene‐Culture Coevolution?
Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews, Volume 34, Issue 3, September 2025.ABSTRACT The unique intellectual and cultural attributes of Homo sapiens that arose during the Middle Stone Age are often ascribed to positive evolutionary development of novel physical or personality traits, but attempts to correlate cultural with genetic evolution have been unsuccessful.
Gerald E. Loeb
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Plutarcho požiūris į išsilavinusias moteris kūriniuose Coniugalia praecepta ir Consolatio ad uxorem. Plutarch’s attitude towards educated woman (treatises Coniugalia praecepta and Consolatio aduxorem) [PDF]
Literatūra (Vilnius), 2010 The article aims to establish the attitude, or attitudes, towards educated women and women in general that Plutarch reveals in his moral treatises Coniugalia praecepta and Consolatio ad uxorem. Secondary aim of this articles is to determine, what does he
Monika Voinič
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The Classical Review, 1916 but it is usually misleading to introduce metaphor into technical works. Kohler seems to set more store by the ethics of the Bible than most German theologians are disposed to do, but he might allow the civilisation to speak for itself and remember that ...
H. G. Evelyn-White
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