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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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Alexander, his Teacher and his Status of Philosophy in Plutarch of Chaeronea: an Inquiry into the Meaning of a Certain Exchange of Letters

Classica Cracoviensia, 2016
Alexander, his Teacher and his Status of Philosophy in Plutarch of Chaeronea: an Inquiry into the Meaning of a Certain Exchange of Letters The principal focus of the present article is the exchange of letters quoted by Plutarch of Chaeronea ...
Joanna Komorowska
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Philosophical Criticism of Genealogical Claims and Stoic Depoliticization of Politics: Greco-Roman Strategies in Paul's Allegorical Interpretation of Hagar and Sarah (Gal 4:21-31) [PDF]

, 2010
George H. van Kooten, “Philosophical Criticism of Genealogical Claims and Stoic Depoliticization of Politics: Greco-Roman Strategies in Paul’s Allegorical Interpretation of Hagar and Sarah (Gal 4:21-31),” in Abraham, the Nations, and the Hagarites ...
Kooten, George H. van,
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The cultural dynamics of the term Hellanodikes in Palaiologan Byzantium [PDF]

, 2015
In ancient Greek literature, Hellanodikai (Ἑλλανοδίκαι) were figures of public authority and high esteem, renown for their fair judgment, overseeing control, and morally transparent life.
Xenophontos, Sophia
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Posthumous Veneration of King Leonidas in Sparta

Ученые записки Казанского университета: Серия Гуманитарные науки
This 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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A Gleaming Ray: Blessed Afterlife in the Mysteries [PDF]

, 1993
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Brenk, Frederick E.
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GRK 26: Herodotus and Thucydides [PDF]

, 2017
Syllabus and bibliography for an advanced Greek seminar taught at Dartmouth in Winter ...
Michael Lurie
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A multidisciplinary study on the location of Roman sites in the southern sub‐plateau of the Iberian Peninsula

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, Irantzu Álvarez, Jesus‐Maria Hernandez‐Vazquez   +2 more
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The E of Delfos

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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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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