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Literature Compass, Volume 22, Issue 1, March 2025.ABSTRACT This article explores the intersection of immunological discourse and literary narrative through the works of T.S. Eliot and J.M. Coetzee. The paper examines the early twentieth‐century shift from holistic disease models to germ theory, paralleling this scientific evolution with Eliot's use of chemical metaphors in “Tradition and the ...
Huiming Liu
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The ends of history? Jerome, Geruchia, and the Rhine crossings
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 33, Issue 1, Page 71-93, February 2025.This article revisits Jerome’s treatment of the Rhine crossings of 406 in his letter to the widow Geruchia, and the broader issue of breaching the Roman limes. It argues that his description of the events in Gaul and on the border was framed to fit his notion of the history of salvation.
Mateusz Fafinski
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Accessit praeterea diligentia Ioachimi Camerarii, in castigando tum textu, tum commentariis, una cum Annotationibus eiusDrucker gemäss Vorrede: Johannes ...
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, 2017 This essay considers Thucydides’ treatments of the crowd or mob in the context of his analysis of democratic politics in ancient Athens. Scholars have often located in Thucydides a critique of the crowd familiar from ancient philosophical accounts of ...
John Zumbrunnen
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Money, expense, and naval power in Thucydides' History 1-5.24
, 1993 Thucydides has been found guilty of indifference toward financial matters without a consideration of all the evidence. Now Lisa Kallet-Marx examines Thucydides' treatment of financial resources by studying his comments on finance in the context of the ...
Kallet-Marx, Lisa, Thucydides
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, 2021 This paper argues that in order to understand Thucydides 1.22, his well-known chapter on methodology, we need to grasp the central message of 1.20–3.
Rawlings, Hunter R.
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Carr as Thucydides’ ghostwriter: the paradox of realism and a moral foreign policy
Međunarodne 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
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THE THUCYDIDEAN ELEMENT IN THE SPEECHES OF THE MYTILENAEAN DEBATE: HISTORY 3.37 - 48
Akroterion, 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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Thucydide et les conventions écrites : le jugement de l’historien
Pallas, 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
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Dionysius of Halicarnassus on Thucydides
, 2017 Thucydides was very popular among Roman rhetoricians and historians of the first century bce. The Greek critic Dionysius of Halicarnassus, however, criticizes Thucydides for his unnatural style and his inappropriate treatment of subject matter.
Casper C. de Jonge
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