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Those Infinite, Multiform Stories without Fixity: Myth and History, a Very Long Engagement

Studia Mythologica Slavica
This paper deals with the problematic relationship between ancient historiography and mythology, or mythological stories as historical sources for historical research.
Gergor Pobežin
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Thucydides and Crowds

, 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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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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Οἶκτος e ἔλεος: contesti della ‘compassione’ nell’opera storica di Tucidide

Pallas, 2018
In this paper we examine the contexts in which Thucydides uses the Greek terms οἶκτος and ἔλεος, commonly translated with ‘pity’ or ‘compassion’. The lexical analysis aims at identifying the role, both positive and negative, that compassion plays within ...
Antonella Impieri
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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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Thucydides and His Continuators

, 2017
This chapter discusses the ways in which later historians completed the unfinished history of Thucydides. Cratippus (the author of the Hellenica Oxyrhynchia), Xenophon and Theopompus all wrote completions of Thucydides.
Vivienne Gray
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A new Thucydides Trap? How traditional defense buildups can exacerbate contemporary power decline

Frontiers in Political Science
The Thucydides Trap describes the tendency for power transitions to culminate in war. The dominant power’s fear of displacement prompts defensive buildups which can spiral into armed conflict. The historical recurrence of this pattern has raised concerns
Ryan R. Swan
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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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“Shrieking like Illyrians”* Historical geography and the Greek perspective of the Illyrian world in the 5th century BC

Arheološki Vestnik, 2011
Modern historiography on the ancient world has focused in the last few decades on the problems of Greek identity and self-awareness, as well as Greek relations to the nonGreek populations.
Ivan Matijašić
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Thucydides and Herodotus /

, 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.
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