What Sustains Wars: Will to Fight Versus Military Might. [PDF]
Ann N Y Acad SciThis 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]
LaryngoscopeThis 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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GRK 26: Herodotus and Thucydides [PDF]
, 2017 Syllabus and bibliography for an advanced Greek seminar taught at Dartmouth in Winter ...
Michael Lurie
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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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Secret origins of the state: the structural basis of raison d'état [PDF]
, 1992 The Italian city-state system occupies a special place in the canon of orthodox international relations. For, as Martin Wight says, ‘it was among the Italian powers that feudal relationships first disappeared and the efficient, self-sufficient secular ...
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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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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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Pseudo-Dionysius 'Art of Rhetoric' 8-11: Figured speech, declamation, and criticism [PDF]
, 2003 This paper considers the date and authorship of chapters 8-11 of the "Art of Rhetoric", falsely attributed to Dionysius of Halicarnassus. Analysis of the two chapters on "figured speech" suggests that chapter 9 is an unfinished attempt by the author of ...
Heath, M.
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