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The Bull of Phalaris and the Historical Method of Diodorus of Sicily
The problems surrounding the bull of Phalaris have exercised ancient historians for well over a century now. The present study aims to open a new perspective in dealing with these problems by questioning the key assumptions that underlay earlier ...
Andrzej Dudzinski
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PAINTING HISTORY: PICTURE, WITNESS, AND ANCIENT HISTORIOGRAPHY
ABSTRACT This article treats an analogy that is used persistently in the history of historiography: the equation of historiography with painting and the identification of the historiographer with the painter. In examining the conceptual stakes of this (auto)identification, the article mobilizes the analogy in order to explore larger issues of ...
LUUK DE BOER
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Δημαγωγοί e δημαγωγία nella storiografia greca d’età romana
This paper focuses on the semantic and historical evolution of the term δημαγωγός in Greek historiography and political oratory from Polybius to Cassius Dio. Apparently, Polybius was aware only of the polemical meaning of the term (i.e.
Gianpaolo Urso
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The History of Religion: Ancient Rome Edition 1960–2026
Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
Celia E. Schultz
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Those Infinite, Multiform Stories without Fixity: Myth and History, a Very Long Engagement
This paper deals with the problematic relationship between ancient historiography and mythology, or mythological stories as historical sources for historical research.
Gergor Pobežin
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Il lavoro ha come obiettivo quello di stilare un elenco delle iscrizioni a cui Polibio fa esplicito riferimento nel corso delle sue Storie non solo per individuare i diversi modi in cui il materiale epigrafico viene citato e per verificare l’utilizzo che
Cesare Zizza
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L’HISTOIRE PAR L’EXEMPLE ET L’EXEMPLE DE L’HISTOIRE: LES EXEMPLES HISTORIQUES CHEZ POLYBE [PDF]
In this article, my purpose is to study Polybius’ use of historical examples. After reminding of the main elements of the author’s life, work and reception, I will briefly expose the rhetorical theories about example.
Benoît SANS
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Approaching Questions of Text Reuse in Ancient Greek Using Computational Syntactic Stylometry
We are investigating methods by which data from dependency syntax treebanks of ancient Greek can be applied to questions of authorship in ancient Greek historiography.
Gorman Vanessa B., Gorman Robert J.
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Hybrid Cryptosystem Using Polybius and Elgamal Algorithm Over the Gaussian Integers
In composition theory, computer security, and engineering are all closely related fields under which cryptography, a technology that deals with data security, falls. However, the complexity of cryptographic systems must be increased due to the attackers'
Hiba A. Khalaf, Rifaat Z. Khalaf
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