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What Sustains Wars: Will to Fight Versus Military Might [PDF]
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Volume 1554, Issue 1, Page 66-86, December 2025.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.
Scott Atran
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One‐Sidedness and the Inferior Function in Coriolanus and Timon of Athens [PDF]
Journal of Analytical Psychology, Volume 71, Issue 1, Page 8-34, February 2026.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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An Account of Roman Surgical Treatments for Ozena: Historical Review [PDF]
The Laryngoscope, Volume 135, Issue 7, Page 2249-2254, July 2025.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 ...
Perry Hammond +2 more
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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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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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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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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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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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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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