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Dimensions of hospitality: exploring ancient origins [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
Hospitality has an ancient origin and honourable tradition. As more attention is being channelled towards seeking a greater understanding of hospitality, there is an increasing debate between academics working in the field of hospitality management and ...
O'Gorman, Kevin D.
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Thucydides, Homer and the ‘Achaean Wall’

open access: yesGreek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies, 2002
The Greeks’ building of the wall in Iliad 7 is not contradicted by Thucydides’ statement that this happened after the first battle, for the poem shows that the first true battle came late in the war: our text of Homer is what Thucydides knew.
J. A. Davison
doaj  

Mapping an ancient historian in a digital age: the Herodotus Encoded Space-Text-Image Archive (HESTIA) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
HESTIA (the Herodotus Encoded Space-Text-Imaging Archive) employs the latest digital technology to develop an innovative methodology to the study of spatial data in Herodotus' Histories.
Barker, Elton   +3 more
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Insights in paediatric virology during the COVID-19 era (Review). [PDF]

open access: yesMed Int (Lond), 2022
Mammas IN   +10 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Morality, institutions and economic growth: Lessons from ancient Greece [PDF]

open access: yes
We show that the character and the morality of citizens are important ingredients of economic growth because they go hand in hand with the great institutions of private property, democ-racy, and free markets.
Bitros, George, Karayiannis, Anastassios
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A Broader View of the Cathedral: The Significance of the Liability Rule, Correcting a Misapprehension [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Recent years have seen a resurgence of Torts viewed as a purely private legal arrangement: whether described in terms of compensatory justice—the right of an injured party to be made whole—or of redress for civil wrongs—the right of an injured person to ...
Calabresi, Guido
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“An Art Not to Be Attended at Idle Times”: Reason and Violence in Thucydides

open access: yesСоциология власти
The article examines the problem of interconnection between strategic, political, and technical aspects of organized violence in Thucydides’ “History of Peloponnesian War” in its most complex and effective form — maneuver naval combat.
R. V. Gulyaev
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