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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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Plutarch on the childhood of Alcibiades [PDF]

, 2003
Almost four decades ago, Donald Russell published in this journal an analysis of the first sixteen chapters of theLife of Alkibiades, which consist largely of short self-contained anecdotes about Alkibiades' childhood, youth and early career (Russell ...
Duff, Timothy E.
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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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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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Odwołania do Aleksandra Wielkiego i ich rola w Żywocie Demetriusza Plutarcha z Cheronei

Collectanea Philologica, 2020
Among all Plutarch’s Lives of men that lived after IV B.C., the biography of Demetrius Poliorcetes contains the most references to Alexander the Great. It is noteworthy that references to this figure in comparison to other Plutarchean biographies occur ...
Tomasz Zieliński
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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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Pompey And Theophanes Of Mytilene [PDF]

, 1985
Classic
Gold, Barbara K.
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Atene e l’‘epimachia’ con Corcira (433 a.C.)

Erga-Logoi, 2016
This paper offers a new analysis of sources as well as a new reconstruction of the events of Greek History in July and August 433 B.C. The author especially focuses (1) on the historical motives behind the change of view which led the Athenian Assembly ...
Giovanni Parmeggiani
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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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The structure of the Plutarchan book [PDF]

, 2011
This study focuses not on individual Lives or pairs of Lives, but on the book as a whole and its articulation across the full corpus. It argues that the Plutarchan book consists of up to four distinct sections: prologue, first Life, second Life ...
Duff, Timothy Elliott
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