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What Sustains Wars: Will to Fight Versus Military Might. [PDF]

Ann N Y Acad Sci
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.
Atran S.
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An Account of Roman Surgical Treatments for Ozena: Historical Review. [PDF]

Laryngoscope
This historical study investigates ancient Roman surgical techniques for treating ozena as described by Celsus, with a focus on its historical and etymological context. Independent translation and archaeological evidence contextualize two ancient procedures: closed nasal cauterization using a heated probe and an open approach involving dissection and ...
Hammond P, Benefiel RR, Lam K.
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Some Notes on historical Thought and historical Science in Antiquity (Ancient Greece) [PDF]

Античный мир и археология, 2017
The article deals with the major factors of emergence of historical science (exactly as science, which presupposes investigation rather than a pure appraisal of facts) in Greece on the verge of Archaic and Classical periods.
Surikov, Igor Evgenyevich
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Thucydide, Héraclite et l’archéologie du réalisme politique

Dialogues d'Histoire Ancienne, 2019
Thucydides and Heraclitus are not frequently associated thinkers. The aim of this article is first to examine the proximity between some of Heraclitus’ fragments and certain passages of Thucydides’ writings ; and secondly to propose a hypothesis on the ...
Pierre Ponchon
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Origin and development of the medieval narrative tradition of 'Black Death' des­cription

Ученые записки Казанского университета: Серия Гуманитарные науки, 2020
The origin and development of ancient plots associated with mass epidemics, which formed the basis of the medieval narrative tradition of describing the Black Death – the second plague pandemic was analyzed.
T.F. Khaydarov
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Tucídides frente al espejo: realidad e imagen ideal del historiador ático [PDF]

Talia dixit, 2016
The aim of the present review is to provide a critical analysis of one recent book on the life and work of Thucydides written by Luciano Canfora. The analysis becomes thus a perfect occasion to reflect on approaches and perspectives of contemporary ...
Juan Carlos Iglesias-Zoido
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‘Philonikia’ e ‘timoria’ nel ‘logos’ di Ermocrate a Gela e nell’‘Olimpico’ di Lisia

Erga-Logoi, 2016
The aim of the paper is to underline that some themes are both in the logos of Hermocrates of Syracuse in Gela and in the Olimpic Oration of Lysias. Purposely, two of these are the theme of philonikia, which Thucydides defined «insane», and the theme of ...
Francesca Mattaliano
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One‐Sidedness and the Inferior Function in Coriolanus and Timon of Athens [PDF]

J Anal Psychol
Abstract For both Jung and Shakespeare, one‐sidedness is the fundamental tragic trait. Jung proposed that as an individual develops, they inevitably associate their identity with certain modes of perception and interaction, and that this leads to psychological polarization.
Sofie Qwarnström
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Johanna Hanink (ed.), How to Think about War: An Ancient Guide to Foreign Policy. Thucydides Speeches from The History of the Peloponnesian War, Princeton y Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2019. Pp. 276. ISBN 9780691190150 [PDF]

Talia dixit, 2019
Review of Johanna Hanink (ed.), How to Think about War: An Ancient Guide to Foreign Policy. Thucydides Speeches from The History of the Peloponnesian War, Princeton y Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2019. Pp. 276.
Juan Carlos Iglesias-Zoido
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Tucídides na Teoria das Relações Internacionais | Thucydides in International Relations Theory

Political Observer, 2022
Thucydides is frequently cited as the father of International Relations(IR). There is debate in the field on how to interpret his thought, with different schools invoking him as their ancestor.
Tomé Ribeiro Gomes
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