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Pallas, 2009 What historical value can be attributed to the “Sicilian Archeology” which opens up Thucydides’ book VI, notably as regards the circumstances and modes of the arrival of the Phenicians in Sicily?
Corinne Bonnet
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One‐Sidedness and the Inferior Function in Coriolanus and Timon of Athens [PDF]
J Anal PsycholAbstract For both Jung and Shakespeare, one‐sidedness is the fundamental tragic trait. Jung proposed that as an individual develops, they inevitably associate their identity with certain modes of perception and interaction, and that this leads to psychological polarization.
Sofie Qwarnström
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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