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Polybius’ notion of tyche resembles that of the Stoics in that it is epistemological: he allows chance to be invoked for phenomena whose causes cannot or cannot yet be discovered by our limited human understanding.
René Brouwer
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Polybius’s global moment and human mobility through ancient Italy [PDF]
This material has been published in Globalisation and the Roman World: World History, Connectivity and Material Culture, edited by: Martin Pitts, University of Exeter, Miguel John Versluys, Universiteit Leiden. Published: December 2014.
Isayev, Elena
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Acts and the Historical Monograph
Despite other recent suggestions, Acts deserves consideration as a ‘historical monograph’. The modern phrase denotes a historical writing, which deals with a limited issue or period and may also be limited in length.
Darryl W. Palmer
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POLYBE ET MONTESQUIEU : aspects d’une réflexion sur le pouvoir
In the Considérations sur les causes de la grandeur des Romains et de leur décadence, Montesquieu refers, among other sources, to Polybius. Starting from the Roman example, both authors carry out a larger reflection, intended for the statesmen, on the ...
Marie-Rose Guelfucci
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Consolation et psychologie dans la Consolation à Polybe de Sénèque [PDF]
Senecas Consolation to Polybius illustrate how the philosophical argument cannot be set apart from a twin rhetorical constraint, not only that of the consolation proper, but also that of Senecas plea to the addressee for his own recall: hence the ...
Prost, François
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Gades and the Mediterranean: a Process of Integration [PDF]
The impetus for this paper is to present possible contributions of the Network Theory approach to the analysis of the Roman presence in Turdetania by the end of the 1st millennium BC.
dos Santos Silva, Bruno
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Resumen En este trabajo hemos intentado analizar, por una parte, la vida de la cartaginesa Sofonisba tomando como referencia el testimonio de tres historiadores de la Antigüedad, Polibio, Tito Livio y Apiano, y por otra, su pervivencia en dos grandes ...
Tomás González Rolán
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How Does One Understand the Stability of Political Regimes from a Theoretical Point of View?
The investigations of this paper revolve around the concept of stability. We would like to make several analytical distinctions which would allow us to differentiate between various concepts of stability.
Łukasz Perlikowski
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Double Valorization for a Discard-α-Chitin and Calcium Lactate Production from the Crab Polybius henslowii Using a Deep Eutectic Solvent Approach. [PDF]
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Oratio Recta and Oratio Obliqua in Polybius
Polybius tends to use direct speech to bring out the character of the speaker or the importance or complexity of the issues, and indirect for preliminary talk, comments on past decisions, or negative advice.
Stephen Usher
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