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Thucydides 6.53.3-59 : not a "digression"
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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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
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Abstract How should Deweyan educators teach their students about engaging in efforts to bring about social change in a political context marked by polarization, power differentials, and oppression? In this article, Joshua Forstenzer argues that Deweyan educators must encourage their students to engage in pluralistic and creative experiments rather than
Joshua Forstenzer
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Carr as Thucydides’ ghostwriter: the paradox of realism and a moral foreign policy
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
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Secondo Tucidide. La paura non è emozione di 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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Οἶκτος e ἔλεος: contesti della ‘compassione’ nell’opera storica di Tucidide
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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A new Thucydides Trap? How traditional defense buildups can exacerbate contemporary power decline
The Thucydides Trap describes the tendency for power transitions to culminate in war. The dominant power’s fear of displacement prompts defensive buildups which can spiral into armed conflict. The historical recurrence of this pattern has raised concerns
Ryan R. Swan
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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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“La guerra maestra violenta”. Polemos e stasis nel pensiero di Tucidide
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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A Second Cold War? Explaining Changes in the American Discourse on China: Evidence from the Presidential Debates (1960-2020). [PDF]
Marandici I.
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