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Private and Public Behaviour in Polybius
Polybius’ Histories represent a fundamental step in the ancient debate about whether individuals who are virtuous in public are also necessarily virtuous in private.
Simone Rendina
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This article explores the relationship between gender and history in Nicolas de Montreux’s historical tragedy La Sophonisbe (1601), specifically how the drama uses the historical female figure of Sophonisbe to negotiate what it means to take part in history.
Anastasia Ladefoged Larn
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Social tensions in studying ancient history
Abstract This article reports on the findings of an investigation into the tensions perceived by students aged 14–15 studying Ancient History in England, between their interest in the ancient world itself and the status of Ancient History as a curriculum subject.
Frances Foster, Juliette Wise
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La storia come mezzo: l’Odisseo mediatore di Polibio
The text inquires into the meaning of Polybius’ references to Odysseus advancing the hypothesis of reconstructive mediation. The text’s two aims are first to delimit Polybius’ concept of mediation, then to use it to discuss possible meanings from the ...
Breno Battistin Sebastiani
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Modifikasi Enkripsi dan Dekripsi AES dengan Polybius Chiper dalam Pengamanan Data
Data merupakan file yang dapat bersifat rahasia sehingga membutuhkan sebuah proses pengamanan data untuk menjaga kerahasiaannya. Kripotgrafi yaitu proses pengamanan data yang dapat digunakan berdasarkan penggunaan algoritma salah satunya AES. AES adalah
Shinta Permatasari +2 more
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Polybius and the art of war: proposal for the identification of some passages from his lost Treatise on tactics – Polybius retains in his Histories traces of an expert in military historiography, a genre that he had previously cultivated, probably in ...
José Vela Tejada
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ABSTRACT In this article, I offer a rereading of Reinhart Koselleck that puts his work at the center of ongoing debates about how to write histories that can account for humanity's changed and changing relationship to our natural environment—or, in geological terms, to our planet.
HELGE JORDHEIM
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A Likely Story: Rhetoric and the Determination of Truth in Polybius' Histories
I argue that Polybius demands that a central duty of the historian should be to employ rhetoric to determine which sources are credible, define the course of past events, and convince the reader that the resulting historical narrative is true.
Scott Farrington
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Learning from History para doxan: a New Approach to Polybius' Manifold View of the Past
Scholars have seen a contradiction in Polybius’ view of history because, on the one hand, he talks of cycles and recurrent actions, but on the other is aware of the unpredictable aspects of history (as seen, e.g., with tychê). The present paper seeks to
Felix K. Maier
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La costituzione mista in Polibio
This paper examines the theory of mixed constitution and the sociological doctrine of anacyclosis in Book VI of Polybius’ Histories. The ideal of a mixed government was popularized by Polybius, who saw the Roman Republic as a manifestation of Aristotle’s
John Thornton
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