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Polis, Loimos, Stasis: Thucydides about Disintegration of the Political System

Conatus - Journal of Philosophy, 2023
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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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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The World Gone Wrong: Sophokles’ Electra

Annali Online dell'Università di Ferrara. Sezione Lettere, 2016
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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Secondo Tucidide. La paura non è emozione di donne

Storia delle Donne
The 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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Thucydides 6.53.3-59 : not a "digression"

Dialogues d'Histoire Ancienne, 1995
The passage in Thucydides Book 6 (53.3-59) dealing the circumstances which Hipparchus, the son of the sixth century Athenian tyrant Pisistratus had assassinated, comes in the middle of Thucydides' account of Alcibiades' recall exile (53.1-2 ; 60-61).
Michael Vickers
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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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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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Irony, historiography, and political criticism : The Porcaria coniuratio [PDF]

, 2020
This article examines Leon Battista Alberti’s 'Porcaria coniuratio', the historical epistle on Stefano Porcari’s conspiracy against Nicholas V, which was discovered by the pope before the conspirators could carry out the plot, in January 1453.
Celati, Marta
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Why Thucydides’ Trap Misinforms Sino-American Relations

Vestnik RUDN. International Relations, 2021
Thucydides Trap has become a familiar term in scholarly and even popular discourse on Sino-American relations. It points to the ancient rivalry between Athens and Sparta as an analogy for contemporary relations between China and the United States.
Steve Chan
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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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