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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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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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Managing Uncertainty: Lessons from Xenophon\u27s Retreat [PDF]
Propositions on dynamic capabilities and organizational politics are developed from management literature and are then evaluated using case analysis. The goal is to identify complementary aspects of these perspectives to change from an ancient example ...
King, David R.
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Polyneices’ Body and His Monument: Class, Social Status, and Funerary Commemoration in Sophocles’ Antigone [PDF]
There has been much debate about the role of Greek tragedy in questioning and/or affirming values. This paper addresses the broader relationship between theater and society in terms of the ways in which the dead were commemorated in fifth-century Athens.
David Roselli
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PAINTING HISTORY: PICTURE, WITNESS, AND ANCIENT HISTORIOGRAPHY
ABSTRACT This article treats an analogy that is used persistently in the history of historiography: the equation of historiography with painting and the identification of the historiographer with the painter. In examining the conceptual stakes of this (auto)identification, the article mobilizes the analogy in order to explore larger issues of ...
LUUK DE BOER
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Xenophon’s political philosophy: a project for the whole of Greece
[full article, abstract in English; abstract in Lithuanian] This paper discusses Xenophon’s political philosophy and its Greek context. One of the major themes running through Xenophon’s works is leadership, which he tackles implicitly or explicitly ...
Alius Jaskelevičius
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Catalytic dry reforming of natural gas for the production of chemicals and hydrogen [PDF]
Carbon dioxide reforming of methane to synthesis gas was studied over Ni-based catalysts. It is shown that, in contrast to other Ni-based catalysts which exhibit continuous deactivation with time-on-stream, the rate over the Ni/La2O3 catalyst increases ...
Verykios Xenophon E.
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Abstract Along the lower course of the Rioni and several minor rivers, more than 70 settlement mounds (local name: Dikhagudzuba) have been identified by field surveys and remote sensing techniques. They give evidence of a formerly densely populated landscape in the coastal lowlands on the Colchian plain (western Georgia) and have been dated to the ...
Hannes Laermanns +7 more
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Plato – The Motto of Delphi of the Alcibiades I: Between Emphases and Retractions of the Socratics?
The present article aims to examine whether this Platonic dialogue can be regarded as polemical and competing with the similar educational proposals put forward by Xenophon and Antisthenes for the young Alcibiades aspiring to power in the city of Athens.
Giuseppe Mazzara
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Ethnophilosophy as a global development goal
Abstract The ethnophilosophy debate in African philosophy has been primarily concerned with the nature and future direction of African philosophy, but this paper approaches the debate in search of lessons about philosophy in general. The paper shows how this ongoing debate has been obscured by varying understandings of “ethnophilosophy” and that a de ...
James Tartaglia
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