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Human nature as a factor of Roman imperial history in the work of Cassius Dio

open access: yesRUDN Journal of World History
According to modern scholarship, including the studies published in the last decade, the concept of a universal and unchanging human nature, originating with Thucydides, is employed by Cassius Dio mainly to explain the events of republican history ...
Konstantin V. Markov
doaj   +1 more source

Thucydides and the ancient simplicity: the limits of political realism

open access: yes, 1998
Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War is the earliest surviving realist text in the European tradition. As an account of the Peloponnesian War, it is famous both as an analysis of power politics and as a classic of political realism.
Thucydides   +2 more
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Thucydides’ Historical Method

open access: yes, 2017
This chapter shows how Thucydides’ rigorous critical method and literary artistry combine to produce an intellectually penetrating and emotionally gripping account of the past. For Thucydides, the key to accuracy is his interpretation of the facts.
Sara Forsdyke
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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
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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

Money, expense, and naval power in Thucydides' History 1-5.24

open access: yes, 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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Historiae

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Accessit praeterea diligentia Ioachimi Camerarii, in castigando tum textu, tum commentariis, una cum Annotationibus eiusDrucker gemäss Vorrede: Johannes ...
Thucydides
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De Romilly vs. Kagan: Dos Tucídides frente a frente [PDF]

open access: yesTalia dixit, 2015
The aim of the present study is to provide a comparative analysis of two essential books on the work of Thucydides that have recently translated into the Spanish and are now available in the Spanish-speaking editorial market.
Juan Carlos Iglesias-Zoido
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Thucydides 6.53.3-59 : not a "digression"

open access: yesDialogues d'Histoire Ancienne, 1995
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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Do the Unexpected! Why Deweyan Educators Should Be Pluralists about Political Tactics and Strategies†

open access: yesEducational Theory, Volume 75, Issue 2, Page 171-187, April 2025.
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
wiley   +1 more source

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