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Pallas, 2009 What historical value can be attributed to the “Sicilian Archeology” which opens up Thucydides’ book VI, notably as regards the circumstances and modes of the arrival of the Phenicians in Sicily?
Corinne Bonnet
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Policy Spandrels: How Design Decisions Can Open Up Spaces for Unintended Policy Change
European Policy Analysis, Volume 12, Issue 2, Spring 2026.ABSTRACT This article introduces the concept of policy spandrels to make sense of public policies producing second‐order effects that are unintentional from the perspective of policy design and yet are fraught with consequences. By analogy with architectural spandrels—leftover spaces that can be used for unforeseen purposes—policy change can be enabled
Martino Maggetti
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Archidamus Revisited: The Case for an Alternate Narrative of the King of Sparta [PDF]
, 2018 Of all the figures who took part in the Peloponnesian War, perhaps no single person contributed so much to the outcome of the war as Archidamus II. However, if you scour the ancient primary sources, you will be hard-pressed to find a good, objective ...
Tobin, Sean
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What's the matter with realism? [PDF]
, 1990 International relations, as an academic discipline, is not known for its strength in the area of theory. It has no immediate equivalent to the rich contrasts of perspective generated in sociology by the legacy of Max Weber, Marx and Durkheim—a lack so ...
Justin Rosenberg +14 more
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El diálogo de Melos. Desde la interpretación de Nietzsche hacia la visión trágica de Tucídides
Síntesis. Revista de FilosofíaThis work analyses the famous and “terrible” dialogue that Thucydides presents in his History of the Peloponnesian War between the Athenians and the Melians and seeks to highlight elements that would show a tragic vision of history and human affairs on ...
Diego Colomés
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Journal of Quaternary Science, Volume 41, Issue 2, Page 316-332, February 2026.ABSTRACT The Mediterranean is particularly sensitive to rapid climate changes (RCCs) during the Holocene. An increasing number of natural climate archives revealed that socio‐economic developments were influenced by such RCCs since the Palaeolithic. However, multi‐millennial and high‐resolution archives are still rare and often located in mountainous ...
Esra Reichert +7 more
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Thucydides' political judgement [PDF]
, 1990 After reporting the death of Pericles Thucycides gives an assessment of his leadership, adding by way of contrast some comments on the situation which developed in Athens subsequently (2.65.7-13).
Heath, M.
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Le choix de la forme du dialogue : le dialogue des Athéniens et des Méliens (Thucydide. V,85-113)
Dialogues d'Histoire Ancienne, 2007 Agathe Roman, Choosing the dialogue form: the Melian dialogue (Thuc. V.85-113), DHA 33/1, 2007, 9-22. Abstract: The speeches in Thucydides are usually studied in a historical point of view.
Agathe Roman
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What Was Homer Honing in the Odyssey?
Perspectives of Earth and Space Scientists, Volume 6, Issue 1, December 2025.Abstract We summarize the data provided in Homer's the Odyssey concerning Odysseus' journey and suggest a completely new view of what was Homer trying to convey to us. We suggest that Homer was honing the idea of synergy between rules (determinism) and chance (randomness), an idea deeply rooted in natural processes as well in mathematics.
Anastasios A. Tsonis +2 more
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Plutarch on the childhood of Alcibiades [PDF]
, 2003 Almost four decades ago, Donald Russell published in this journal an analysis of the first sixteen chapters of theLife of Alkibiades, which consist largely of short self-contained anecdotes about Alkibiades' childhood, youth and early career (Russell ...
Duff, Timothy E.
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