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Millennia of legal content criteria of lies and truths: wisdom or common-sense folly? [PDF]

Front Psychol, 2023
Sporer SL, Masip J.
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The Problem of Rational Political Decision-Making in Thucydides’ History (2.60-64)

Literatūra (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
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Oracoli su Pausania

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

Gerión, 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
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“An Art Not to Be Attended at Idle Times”: Reason and Violence in Thucydides

Социология власти
The article examines the problem of interconnection between strategic, political, and technical aspects of organized violence in Thucydides’ “History of Peloponnesian War” in its most complex and effective form — maneuver naval combat.
R. V. Gulyaev
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Insights in paediatric virology during the COVID-19 era (Review). [PDF]

Med Int (Lond), 2022
Mammas IN, Liston M, Koletsi P, Vitoratou DI, Koutsaftiki C, Papatheodoropoulou A, Kornarou H, Theodoridou M, Kramvis A, Drysdale SB, Spandidos DA.   +10 more
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Per una proposta di studio dei cataloghi in Tucidide

Histos
This paper analyses Thucydides’ catalogues both as a narrative and analytical device within The Peloponnesian War. In particular, this study aims to show their authenticity or functional coherence and cohesion despite the fact that they have been ...
Riccardo Stigliano
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Thucydides, Homer and the ‘Achaean Wall’

Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies, 2002
The Greeks’ building of the wall in Iliad 7 is not contradicted by Thucydides’ statement that this happened after the first battle, for the poem shows that the first true battle came late in the war: our text of Homer is what Thucydides knew.
J. A. Davison
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A Feminist Thucydides?

Histos
This paper reconsiders the representation of women in Thucydides and the possibility for a feminist interpretation of the Peloponnesian War. It analyses three key passages where the representation of women is highly idealised and subverts the normal ...
Rory O'Sullivan
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COVID-19: looking backward. [PDF]

Intern Med J, 2021
Woolley I, Steinfort D, Szer J.
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