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“Shrieking like Illyrians”* Historical geography and the Greek perspective of the Illyrian world in the 5th century BC

open access: yesArheološki Vestnik, 2011
Modern historiography on the ancient world has focused in the last few decades on the problems of Greek identity and self-awareness, as well as Greek relations to the nonGreek populations.
Ivan Matijašić
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Why Are China and the U.S. Not Destined to Fall into the “Thucydides’ Trap”? [PDF]

open access: yesChina Quarterly of International Strategic Studies, 2018
With the rise of China and relative decline of the United States, the question of whether both countries will fall into the so-called “Thucydides’ Trap” — an analogy to the Peloponnesian War in ancient Greece — has triggered heated debate within ...
Ling Shengli, Lv Huiyi
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Echoes of Longinus in Gregory of Nyssa [PDF]

open access: yes, 1999
Gregory's stylistic criticisms of his opponent in Against Eunomius show the terminological influence of the Art of Rhetoric and Philological Discourses of the third-century critic Cassius Longinus.
Heath, M.
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Views from the East: Changing Attitudes to Venice in Late Byzantium

open access: yesRenaissance 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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Οἶκτος e ἔλεος: contesti della ‘compassione’ nell’opera storica di Tucidide

open access: yesPallas, 2018
In this paper we examine the contexts in which Thucydides uses the Greek terms οἶκτος and ἔλεος, commonly translated with ‘pity’ or ‘compassion’. The lexical analysis aims at identifying the role, both positive and negative, that compassion plays within ...
Antonella Impieri
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Respublica noumenon: Kant, Rousseau, and Plato's Republic

open access: yesThe 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
wiley   +1 more source

“La guerra maestra violenta”. Polemos e stasis nel pensiero di Tucidide

open access: yesPhilosophy Kitchen, 2015
In this paper, I intend to provide an in-depth analysis of Thucydides’ account of war in the third section of his Xyngraphé. Despite most of his early commentators accused him of certain obscurity, the notions of polemos and stasis he introduces in this ...
Dino Piovan
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...Brevique Adnotatione Critica...: a preliminary history of the Oxford classical texts [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
On 3 July 1896, at one of the less regular meetings of the Delegates of Oxford University Press (OUP) held during the Long Vacation, approval was given to publication of the Oxford Classical Texts (OCT) series.
Whitaker, G.
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Genealogies and oral histories as chronological networks: interfacing whakapapa (Māori genealogies) with Gregorian calendar year archaeological radiocarbon dates

open access: yesArchaeometry, Volume 67, Issue S1, Page 131-153, June 2025.
Abstract Human genealogies serve multiple functions beyond documenting one's pedigree. They operate as complex social frameworks that structure knowledge, delimit group membership, explain historical causation, are political tools, and provide chronological foundations for understanding past events and processes across diverse knowledge systems ...
Isaac H. McIvor   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

THE THUCYDIDEAN ELEMENT IN THE SPEECHES OF THE MYTILENAEAN DEBATE: HISTORY 3.37 - 48

open access: yesAkroterion, 2012
The problem of defining the precise relationship between Thucydides’ speeches and their exemplars has recently been characterized as “one of the central problems that confronts the ancient historian”.1 It is true that in spite of generations of careful ...
R.D. Luginbill
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