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Sophokles’ Lucky Day: Antigone
Erga-Logoi, 2013 This article distinguishes five, and then three, mostly political issues raised in Sophokles’ Antigone. (1) Can a traitor to his community be honorably buried? (2) Can a family member be valued ahead of the community? (3) Do underworld gods of the family
Robert Wallace
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The Image of Sulṭān in Islamic Mirror of Princes
Darulfunun Ilahiyat, 2022 This article seeks to explore the claims that al-Ādāb al-Sulṭānīyah literature legitimized tyranny, involving subverting religion to be a tool in the hands of political authorities and legitimizing the absolute authority of the ruler above the people ...
Fadi Zatari, Omar Fili
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ARISTOTLE'S CONTRIBUTION TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF GOVERNMENT THEORY
Вестник Российского экономического университета имени Г. В. Плеханова, 2017 The article provides basic categories of the theory of government and analyzes advantages and disadvantages of different forms of state government offered by Aristotle.
Alexander V. Butov
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Denomination of single-rulers of Archaic Greece in written sources [PDF]
Античный мир и археология, 2019 In the present paper the author analyses the evidence of the archaic Greek lyrics containing mentions of tyrants and tyranny and presents her version of the answer to the question who and why were called tyrants by the Greeks in the archaic period.
Solomatina, Elena Ivanovna
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Sous l’empire de la folie : Moby-Dick, Shakespeare & compagnie
Transatlantica, 2010 This article aims at translating Moby-Dick back into Shakespeare’s ornate lingo, and back again into a Swiftian or Sternian brand of “jabberwocky,” in order to expose the sheer nonsense that underlies lame attempts at standing for the Body Politic called
Michel Imbert
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What Makes a Demagogue? The Figure of the Rhetor in the Closing Years of the Peloponnesian War
Annales Universitatis Mariae Curie-Skłodowska. Sectio K, Politologia, 2021 It is usual to associate the word “demagogue” with bad political leadership. At worst, it is also usual to think about a leader that uses deception and feeds on the more primal emotions of the people to get what he wants.
Tomás Pacheco Bethencourt
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The Concept of Law in Pre-Constitutional Times: The Views of Mirza Malkam Khan Nazim Al-dawla [PDF]
Faṣlnāmah-i Pizhūhish-i Huqūq-i ̒UmūmīIntroductionLaw has been a central concept throughout different periods of pre-constitutional reforms, reflecting the different stages of Iranian constitutionalism.
Abbasali Kadkhodaei, Mahdiyeh Firoozi
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THE CONCEPT OF STATE ADMINISTRATION BY N. MACHIAVELLI
Вестник Российского экономического университета имени Г. В. Плеханова, 2017 The article shows the key types of state structure in countries of the Ancient world and Medieval Europe, describes their advantages and disadvantages and investigates the round of different forms of state power. Frequent state transformations could lead
Alexander V. Butov
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Jurisprudential Rethinking in the Principle of the Prohibition of Double Punishment [PDF]
Faṣlnāmah-i Pizhūhish-i Huqūq-i Kiyfarī, 2022 The principle of the prohibition of double punishment is one of the accepted principles of criminal law, according to which every crime should only be punished once. This rule is accepted by Islam and it is imperative to abide.
Sayyed Mohsen Aziz +3 more
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Écriture, tyrannies et pouvoir tyrannique. Emprunts et polémiques chez Hérodote
Pallas, 2009 The VI and V century Greece, the circles of scientists, poets and philosophers were engaged in arguments, in conflicts of interpretation in which soon got involved the early prose writers, authors of historiographic works.
Pascal Payen
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