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Thucydides and his intellectual milieu
, 2017 The chapter examines Thucydides’ intellectual milieu, concentrating on medical theories of the time, rhetoric, and especially the rhetorical use of theories of justice and self-interest.
Rosalind Thomas, Thomas, Rosalind
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Fault tolerant adaptive routing in multicomputer networks [PDF]
, 1995 Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1995.Includes bibliographical references (p.
Xanthopoulos, Thucydides
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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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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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Thucydides adoxos and Praxiphanes
, 2012 Marcellinus' Life of Thucydides offers us evidence concerning the of Praxiphanes which has long attracted the attention of critics. Thucydides' detailed knowledge of Macedonia could certainly suggest a visit by the historian to the region, perhaps even ...
Corradi M
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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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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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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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, 2012 Includes bibliographical references (p. 374-378) and indexes.Introduction / Edith Foster and Donald Lateiner -- Structure and meaning in epic and historiography / Richard B. Rutherford -- Thucydides as reader of Herodotus / Philip A.
Foster, Edith(Edith Marie), +1 more
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