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Enhancing the Cohesion and Influence of Minority Opinions Through Clustering: A Social Network Experiment. [PDF]

Psych J
ABSTRACT Minority opinions can be of crucial importance to the diversity, productivity, and harmony of a group, but are often left unattended and unheard. Previous methods that tried to enhance minority influence are usually overly forceful and low on ecological validity. To overcome these pitfalls, we proposed a new intervention method called minority
Wu B, Liu J, Li Y, Shen-Zhang C, Luan S.
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The role of the helots in 'educating' the Spartans

Ученые записки Казанского университета: Серия Гуманитарные науки, 2022
This article considers and analyzes the ancient sources mentioning the role played by the helots in the upbringing of sons of Spartan citizens. The focus is on the ways and forms through which the helots were exploited to educate the young generation ...
L.G. Pechatnova
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Looks of Love and Loathing:Cultural Models of Vision and Emotion in Ancient Greek Culture [PDF]

, 2011
International audienceThis paper considers the intersection of cultural models of emotion, specifically love and envy, with folk and scientific models of vision in Greek antiquity.
Cairns, Douglas
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The lives and opinions of Socrates and Stilpo as defended by Plutarch against the insidious yet ignorant attacks of Colotes

Aitia, 2013
In chapters 17 to 23 of the Adversus Colotem Plutarch defends Socrates and Stilpo against Colotes’ criticism. I examine the embedding of this section in the larger context of the work, the links between the sections on Socrates ...
Jan Opsomer
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Anty-Aleksander? Wizerunek Demetriusza Poliorketesa w "Żywocie Demetriusza" Plutarcha z Cheronei

Collectanea Philologica, 2021
The assumption that imitation of Alexander the Great played a key role in the image of Demetrius Poliorcetes has been broadly accepted by many researchers. The main source on this subject is Plutarch’s Life of Demetrius where the author directly compares
Tomasz Zieliński
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Pompey And Theophanes Of Mytilene [PDF]

, 1985
Classic
Gold, Barbara K.
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Notes on the Tradition of the Peace of Callias

Erga-Logoi, 2020
An examination of Plut. Cim. 13, 4-5 and Harp. Α 261 Keaney s.v. Ἀττικοῖς γράμμασιν suggests that fourth-century historians Callisthenes (FGrHist 124 F 16) and Theopompus (FGrHist 115 F 154) challenged the view of contemporary Athenians – attested ...
Giovanni Parmeggiani
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A crowd of Gods: atheism and superstition in Juvenal Satire 13 [PDF]

, 2019
Accepted ...
Uden, James
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Plato, Aristotle and the phytagorean influence on Plutarch's De Musica

Classica, Revista Brasileira de Estudos Clássicos, 2012
In his treatise On Music, Plutarch cites and discusses excerpts from works of Plato and Aristotle in which these authors deal with issues relevant to the harmonic theory. In these passages, we see that the sources used by Plutarch have a strong influence
Roosevelt Rocha
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Resorting to rare sources of antiquity: Nikephoros Basilakes and the popularity of Plutarch’s Parallel Lives in twelfth-century Byzantium [PDF]

, 2014
This article examines the Byzantine adaptation of the anecdote of the Lydian king Pythes within Nikephoros Basilakes’ <i>Progymnasma</i> 11 in relation to its earliest surviving source, Plutarch’s <i>Mulierum virtutes</i> 262D ...
Xenophontos, Sophia
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