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Two Passions in Plato’s Symposium: Diotima’s To Kalon as a Reorientation of Imperialistic Erōs [PDF]
, 2019 In this essay, I propose a reading of two contrasting passions, two kinds of erōs, in the "Symposium." On the one hand, there is the imperialistic desire for conquering and possessing that Alcibiades represents; and on the other hand, there is the ...
Duque, Mateo
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TOWARD A CONJECTURAL HISTORY OF CONJECTURAL HISTORIES
History and Theory, Volume 64, Issue 4, Page 56-74, December 2025.ABSTRACT Most intellectual historians use the term “conjectural history” to designate a new form of speculative history created in eighteenth‐century Scotland by Adam Smith and a few others. These writers traced the development of human society and culture through conjectural reasoning based on philosophers’ views about human nature and travelers ...
ANTHONY GRAFTON
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Secondo Tucidide. La paura non è emozione di donne
Storia delle DonneThe study runs along two parallel lines, following the theme of fear and the theme of women in Thucydides’ Histories. Thucydides identifies fear as a key factor in political thought and relations within the polis and between poleis.
Anna Beltrametti
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The Diseased Body Politic, Athenian Public Finance, And The Massacre At Mykalessos (Thucydides 7.27-29) [PDF]
, 1999 Classic
Kallet, Lisa
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On the History of Political Philosophy: Great Political Thinkers from Thucydides to Locke [PDF]
, 2012 On the History of Political Philosophy: Great Political Thinkers from Thucydides to Locke is a lively and lucid account of the major political theorists and philosophers of the ancient Greek, Roman, medieval, renaissance, and early modern periods.
Korab-Karpowicz, W. Julian
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‘CELTIC BRITAIN’ IN PRE‐ROMAN ARCHAEOLOGY, RECONSIDERED
Oxford Journal of Archaeology, Volume 44, Issue 4, Page 446-461, November 2025.Summary For forty years archaeologists have avoided referring to pre‐Roman Britain and its inhabitants as ‘Celtic’ on the grounds that contemporaries never described them as such. This is incorrect. The second‐century BC astronomer Hipparchus quotes Pytheas (c. 320 BC) as having referred to Britons as ‘Keltoi’.
Patrick Sims‐Williams
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“STRANDED ON THE SHORES OF HISTORY”? MONUMENTS AND (ART‐)HISTORICAL AWARENESS
History and Theory, Volume 64, Issue 3, Page 338-358, September 2025.ABSTRACT Can past agents deliberately influence our historical awareness by designing objects’ appearances and sending them to us down the stream of time? We know they have certainly tried to do so by raising monuments. But according to an influential narrative, the efforts of the “monumentalists” are destined to fail: no monument can keep a legacy ...
Jakub Stejskal
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Society, Politics, and Ideology of Classical Athens [PDF]
, 2003 В книге – на основании анализа разнообразных источников и использования последних достижений историографии – рассматриваются дискуссионные проблемы истории Афин V–IV вв. до н.э., а также сопутствующие темы.
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Gender, Class, and Ideology: The Social Function of Virgin Sacrifice in Euripides’ Children of Herakles [PDF]
, 2007 This paper explores how gender can operate as a disguise for class in an examination of the self-sacrifice of the Maiden in Euripides’ Children of Herakles.
David Roselli
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CAN HISTORY ABSOLVE? CAN HISTORY JUDGE?
History and Theory, Volume 64, Issue 3, Page 319-337, September 2025.ABSTRACT Appealing to history, rather than to God, to provide an ultimate judgment about human actions can have a justificatory or consolatory function. The former grants proleptic absolution for acts that may be morally dubious because of their benign consequences, while the latter enables victims in the present to gain a measure of relief by ...
MARTIN JAY
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