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Dimensions of hospitality: exploring ancient origins [PDF]
Hospitality has an ancient origin and honourable tradition. As more attention is being channelled towards seeking a greater understanding of hospitality, there is an increasing debate between academics working in the field of hospitality management and ...
O'Gorman, Kevin D.
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Looks of Love and Loathing:Cultural Models of Vision and Emotion in Ancient Greek Culture [PDF]
International audienceThis paper considers the intersection of cultural models of emotion, specifically love and envy, with folk and scientific models of vision in Greek antiquity.
Cairns, Douglas
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Exploring the importance of aromatic plants' extrafloral volatiles for pollinator attraction
Summary Aromatic plants occur in many plant lineages and have widespread ethnobiological significance. Yet, the ecological significance and evolutionary origins of aromatic volatile emissions remain uncertain. Aromatic emissions have been implicated in defensive interactions but may also have other important functions.
Aphrodite Kantsa +3 more
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Tibrone, un armosta poco intraprendente? Note su uno spartano in Asia
This paper focuses on the Spartan harmost Thibron, who led two expeditions to Asia in the first decade of the 4th century. It aims both to reconstruct the historical events, which are set in a context in which Sparta’s political action is characterised ...
Paolo A. Tuci
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Senofonte, Ciropedia: Ciro bambino e adolescente
In the last decades the Cyropaedia enjoyed a renewed interest, mostly addressed to the controversial character of Cyrus, exemplary leader or susceptible to a dark reading. However the character of Cyrus as a child and adolescent, who appears in Cyr. 1.3-
Fiorenza Bevilacqua
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Xenophon und die spartanische Nauarchie
Xenophon generally considered Sparta to have been a well organized, ideal city-state, which fact he attributed to the presumed lawgiver Lycurgus. By contrast, he saw the Sparta of his own time as having gone awry in several ways, especially due to the ...
Lukas Thommen
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Respublica noumenon: Kant, Rousseau, and Plato's Republic
Abstract This article examines the philosophical sources for Kant's interpretation of Plato's Republic and its impact on his conception of the ideal state. I argue that Kant's knowledge of Plato was not derived from Plato's writings, but from secondary accounts.
Michael Kryluk
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Society, Politics, and Ideology of Classical Athens [PDF]
В книге – на основании анализа разнообразных источников и использования последних достижений историографии – рассматриваются дискуссионные проблемы истории Афин V–IV вв. до н.э., а также сопутствующие темы.
Karpyuk, Sergey Georgievich +1 more
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Notas textuales y prosopográficas sobre Plin., Nat. XXIX 7-8
El pasaje de Plinio el Viejo (Nat. XXIX 7-8) permite a través de una nueva fijación del texto comprobar noticias sobre el médico del emperador Claudio Stertinius Xenophon hasta ahora sólo supuestas.
Marc Mayer i Olivé
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Strategic thinking in the shadow of self‐enhancement: Benefits and costs
Abstract Using a variant of the hide‐and‐seek game, we show in three studies that self‐enhancement can help or hinder strategic thinking. In this guessing game, one player chooses a number while another player tries to guess it. Each player does this either in a random fashion (throwing a mental die) or by active thinking.
David J. Grüning, Joachim I. Krueger
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