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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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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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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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‘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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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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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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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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Histos, 2020 Mycalessus, a city in Boeotia which Thucydides describes as ‘not big’, becomes the stage of one of the most atrocious episodes in the History of the Peloponnesian War. The question, ‘Why does Thucydides pay so much attention to this local incident?’ has
Maria Fragoulaki
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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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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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