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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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Chapter Nature and natural phenomena in Thucydides’ The Peloponnesian War: physis and kinesis as factors of political disturbance [PDF]
, 2022 Thucydides’ attention to natural phenomena, such as the plague, volcanoes, earthquakes, eclipses and floods, is well known. These are uncontrollable events that typically cause enormous environmental, political and military disturbance, further ...
Soares, Martinho
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Chapter Democracy under the kothornos: Thucydides and Xenophon on Theramenes
, 2022 We analyze the political actions of Theramenes as described by Thucydides (during the coup of 411 BCE) and Xenophon (under the Thirty, 404-403 BCE) to map the features that converged to make him a paradigmatic character in the ancient Greek political ...
Battistin Sebastiani, Breno, Sano, Lucia
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Thucydides and International Relations [PDF]
, 2020 Thucydides is not only famous as one of the first historians. He is also, surprisingly, seen as an authority on modern international politics. Neville Morley explores why Thucydides is regularly cited in discussions of the current relationship between ...
N Morley (7780034)
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Learning from Thucydides: An Ancient Historian Writes Contemporary History
Histos, 2018 Ancient writers of history such as Thucydides and Polybius had to depend mostly on eye-witness testimony, collected in personal interviews. Thucydides was explicit about the problems inherent in this method: eyewitnesses were biased, unaware, forgetful.
Arthur M. Eckstein
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WHAT DID THUCYDIDES, SUN-TZU AND CLAUSEWITZ REALLY SAY?
Obrana a strategie, 2022 Classical strategic theorists constitute an important pillar of military strategy education, but their texts are often interpreted in contradictory ways.
Samuel Žilinčík +2 more
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Understanding rational fear in Thucydides' history
, 2023 Thucydides declared that he would be content if his work provided accurate knowledge of past events and judged as an effective aid to understanding future events since, "human nature being what it is, will at some time or other and in much the same ways,
Bartlett, Gregory Beau
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Higher Education for Democracy from Classical Athens to the United States: Reflections on an Unfinished Project [PDF]
Athens Journal of HistoryThis article addresses the convergence of two related problems facing U.S. higher education and democracy today by examining how analogous problems arose in ancient Athens and by suggesting how an ancient Athenian conception of higher education for ...
Andrew F. Erwin
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Shipwreck with Spectator Epidemics and Society in the Ancient World [PDF]
Journal of Research on History of Medicine, 2021 Epidemics are dramatic, far-reaching events. Their impact on society is unpredictable. Starting from the meaning of the Greek word epidemia, the paper highlights its topographical and social connotation (“stay at home, stay in a city”), from Homer to ...
Lorenzo Perilli
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Histos, 2021 This paper argues that in order to understand Thucydides 1.22, his well-known chapter on methodology, we need to grasp the central message of 1.20–3.
Hunter R. Rawlings
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