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The circulation and distribution of classical Greek coinage
Abstract From a sample of the most prominent Greek city‐states, data involving a total of 999 hoards and 160,007 coins from 550 to 300 BC were collected to discern the relative magnitudes, consistency of issue, and distribution of Classical Greek coinages.
Zane Mullins
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El diálogo de Melos. Desde la interpretación de Nietzsche hacia la visión trágica de Tucídides
This 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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Representing, Re‐presenting, or Producing the Past? Memory Work amongst Museum Employees
Abstract Though it is widely understood that the past can be an important resource for organizations, less is known about the micro‐level skills and choices that help to materialize different representations of the past. We understand these micro‐level skills and choices as a practice: ‘memory work’ – a banner term gathering various activities that ...
Jeremy Aroles +3 more
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'How warped the mirrors': postmodernism and historiography [PDF]
Postmodernism, though it may be described in many ways, may be thought essentially to be captured by Lyotard's phrase, 'incredulity towards metanarratives'.
Olson, Ryan Scott
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Policy Spandrels: How Design Decisions Can Open Up Spaces for Unintended Policy Change
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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Le choix de la forme du dialogue : le dialogue des Athéniens et des Méliens (Thucydide. V,85-113)
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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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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Polis, Loimos, Stasis: Thucydides about Disintegration of the Political System
This paper discusses Thucydides’ analysis of the disintegration of the political community under the unbearable stress in cases of the plague epidemic in Athens and civil war in Kerkyra.
Mirjana Stefanovski, Kosta Čavoški
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The World Gone Wrong: Sophokles’ Electra
Il presente saggio si occupa di una serie di temi presenti nell’Elettra sofoclea, molti dei quali ricorrono nel Filottete e nell’Edipo a Colono, tutte tragedie probabilmente risalenti all’ultimo decennio di vita di Sofocle.
Robert W. Wallace
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What Was Homer Honing in the Odyssey?
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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