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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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Historika : Studi di Storia Greca e Romana, 2016 After observing that the thalassocracy was a key point of political consideration in the 5th and 4th centuries B.C., this article focuses on the moral interplay between Thucydides, Ps.-Xenophon and Isocrates.
Evangelos Alexiou
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The Laws of War in the Pre-Dawn Light: Institutions and Obligations in Thucydides' Peloponnesian War [PDF]
, 2005 This Essay in honor of Oscar Schachter criticizes both ahistorical renderings of the law of war and realist depictions of Peloponnesian War by asking whether Thucydides describes the conditions of a law of war.
Stephen M. Sheppard
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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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The Plague of Thebes, a Historical Epidemic in Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2012 Sophocles, one of the most noted playwrights of the ancient world, wrote the tragedy Oedipus Rex in the first half of the decade 430–420 bc. A lethal plague is described in this drama.
Antonis A. Kousoulis +4 more
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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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Libanius the Historian? Praise and the Presentation of the Past in Or. 59 [PDF]
, 2017 A study of Libanius' use of historiographical topoi in his imperial panegyric of Constans and Constantius ...
Alan J. Ross
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MythosIn 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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The tradition of an ancient Greek colony in Malta [PDF]
, 1983 The persistent tradition of a Greek colonization of the Maltese Islands in ancient times was inspired mainly by ancient literary allusions. These are basically 1) the identification of the Homeric island of Ogygia, Calypso's refuge, with Malta; 2) the ...
Bonanno, Anthony
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Human Disease - Unintended Globalization
, 2014 Before man was exchanging goods and ideas, he was exchanging germs. As such, the spread of infectious disease constitutes the first truly global phenomenon and, therefore, marks the beginnings—primitive though they may have been—of what today we have ...
Dellana, Christopher J.
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