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Tackling the Thorny Dilemma of Mapping Southeastern Sicily's Coastal Archaeology Beneath Dense Mediterranean Vegetation: A Drone‐Based LiDAR Approach

open access: yesArchaeological Prospection, Volume 32, Issue 1, Page 139-158, January/March 2025.
ABSTRACT Airborne laser scanning (ALS), commonly known as Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR), is a remote sensing technique that enables transformative archaeological research by providing high‐density 3D representations of landscapes and sites covered by vegetation whose analysis reveals hidden features and structures.
Dario Calderone   +5 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
doaj   +1 more source

Thucydide et les conventions écrites : le jugement de l’historien

open access: yesPallas, 2010
Studying the different terms describing the written conventions (σπονδαί, ξύμβασις, ἀνοκώχη, ἐκεχειρία) shows that they point to different degrees of stability and duration; now Thucydides plays on the words he uses in order to bring his reader to ...
Agathe Roman
doaj   +1 more source

Carr as Thucydides’ ghostwriter: the paradox of realism and a moral foreign policy

open access: yesMeđunarodne Studije, 2017
The subject of this paper is to examine the role of morality in foreign policy decision making and action, while its goal is to argue that (1) morality plays an important role in the creation of foreign policy, and (2) that it is not possible to ...
Stipe Buzar
doaj  

ἀρχὴ τῆς θαλάττης - ἀρχὴ τῶν κακῶν? Kompetitive Motivationen bei Thukydides, Ps.-Xenophon und Isokrates

open access: yesHistorika : Studi di Storia Greca e Romana, 2016
After observing that the thalassocracy was a key point of political consideration in the 5th and 4th centuries B.C., this article focuses on the moral interplay between Thucydides, Ps.-Xenophon and Isocrates.
Evangelos Alexiou
doaj   +1 more source

The Problem of Rational Political Decision-Making in Thucydides’ History (2.60-64)

open access: yesLiteratūra (Vilnius)
The article analyses Pericles’ last speech in Thucydides’ History (2.60–64) as a case revealing the limits of rational political decision-making in a crisis situation.
Laisvūnas Čekavičius
doaj   +1 more source

The Plague of Thebes, a Historical Epidemic in Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex

open access: yesEmerging Infectious Diseases, 2012
Sophocles, one of the most noted playwrights of the ancient world, wrote the tragedy Oedipus Rex in the first half of the decade 430–420 bc. A lethal plague is described in this drama.
Antonis A. Kousoulis   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

El plano irracional externo en Tucídides: τύχη, παράλογος, άvέλπιστος, άστάθυμητος, α

open access: yesGerión, 2001
In Thucydides' work the most impor tant cause in historic events in human nature , enclosing both a rational and a ir rational side. Beside this we have another ir rational factor, exter nal instead of inter nal, designated by lexical items such as , , ,
Virginia Muñoz Llamosas
doaj   +2 more sources

Oracoli su Pausania

open access: yesMythos
In the first book of his historical work, Thucydides refers to two commands the Delphic oracle gave to the Spartans: they had to shift the tomb of Pausanias the Regent to the place where he died and they had to give to Athena Chalkioikos two bodies in ...
Sara Adamo
doaj   +1 more source

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