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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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Explaining the End of an Empire: the Use of Ancient Greek Religious Views in Late Byzantine Historiography

Histos, 2015
This article studies the reception of the religious views of Herodotus and Thucydides in the works of the late-Byzantine historiographers Kritoboulos and Laonikos Chalkokondyles.
Mathieu de Bakker
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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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Thucydides in Gaul: The Siege of Plataea as Caesar’s Model for his Siege of Avaricum

Histos, 2016
In his account of the Roman siege of Avaricum (BG 7.14–28), Caesar adapts and alludes to Thucydides’ description of the siege of Plataea (2.75–7). This is evinced by instances of translation and close paraphrases and numerous common narrative details ...
Christopher B. Krebs
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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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Views from the East: Changing Attitudes to Venice in Late Byzantium

Renaissance Studies, Volume 39, Issue 4, Page 550-570, September 2025.
Abstract This paper explores the changing attitudes towards Venice in late Byzantine texts. It argues that, along with the strengthening of political and cultural ties between Byzantium and Venice, the Byzantines' perspectives evolved from rejection to admiration. As scholars like Demetrios Kydones and Manuel Chrysoloras began to teach Greek in Venice,
Florin Leonte
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Respublica noumenon: Kant, Rousseau, and Plato's Republic

The Southern Journal of Philosophy, Volume 63, Issue 3, Page 387-409, September 2025.
Abstract This article examines the philosophical sources for Kant's interpretation of Plato's Republic and its impact on his conception of the ideal state. I argue that Kant's knowledge of Plato was not derived from Plato's writings, but from secondary accounts.
Michael Kryluk
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De Romilly vs. Kagan: Dos Tucídides frente a frente [PDF]

Talia dixit, 2015
The aim of the present study is to provide a comparative analysis of two essential books on the work of Thucydides that have recently translated into the Spanish and are now available in the Spanish-speaking editorial market.
Juan Carlos Iglesias-Zoido
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Those Infinite, Multiform Stories without Fixity: Myth and History, a Very Long Engagement

Studia Mythologica Slavica
This paper deals with the problematic relationship between ancient historiography and mythology, or mythological stories as historical sources for historical research.
Gergor Pobežin
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