Greece
epub |eng | | Author:Ilias Kouskouvelis
Chapter 5 The Thucydides’ Schema on Flawed Decision-Making Thucydides’ thinking on why people take risks forms his second decision-making schema. As before, I begin by defining its content, and then ...
( Category:
European
February 27,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Foster, Margaret
I. DELPHI, AMPHIARAOS, AND THE KROISOS LOGOS I begin by stepping away from colonial discourse and seers temporarily to examine a more widespread rivalry between Delphi and the oracle of ...
( Category:
Greece
February 27,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Stafford, Emma
Roman generals and emperors The political exploitation of Herakles by Alexander and later hellenistic kings was continued by leaders at Rome. Some of the earlier examples may have been inspired ...
( Category:
Folklore & Mythology
February 27,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Evans, Richard [Richard Evans]
Thucydides moves to cover the background to the second – really the third – Athenian intervention in Sicily, the request for aid from Segesta against its neighbour Selinous, and appeals ...
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Greece
February 27,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-08-30 | Author:Steele, Philippa;
10. The context of adaptation These considerations lead to the final justification for reading Linear A with Linear B sound values. And for this we do not have to look ...
( Category:
Prehistory
February 27,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Kennedy, Rebecca Futo; [Rebecca Futo Kennedy]
Notes 1. Madeline Henry’s attempt to move Aspasia outside of the discourse of prostitution has, sadly, not gained traction among many scholars in part because her final assessment of Aspasia ...
( Category:
Women in History
February 26,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Reviel Netz
This was a moment of magic. Consider that each treatise by Archimedes contains at least one such moment of magic and you can begin to see the measure of the ...
( Category:
History
February 22,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Esposito, Gabriele;
Panoply of a phalangist. (Photo and copyright by Hetairoi) It is very interesting to note, however, that the thureophoroi did not represent the last stage in the long evolution of ...
( Category:
Greece
February 22,2020 )
epub |eng | 2014-04-15 | Author:Moses Finley [Moses Finley]
Published by New Word City LLC, 2014 www.NewWordCity.com © Horizon All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, in any form or by any means, without permission ...
( Category:
Historical Greece Biographies
February 17,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Ehrenberg, V.;
VII THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR The period from 431 – with the preliminaries of 433–432 – till 404, though divided into several periods of war and peace, was first recognized as ...
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Greece
February 16,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2014-02-04 | Author:David Konstan
I. Beauty in the Bible We have noted in Chapter 2 that the term most commonly taken to mean “beautiful” in classical Greek is the adjective kalós, although it has ...
( Category:
Greece
February 5,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-01-17 | Author:Barbara Graziosi
Projects and relationships are interrupted by death. Protesilaus, the first Achaean warrior to disembark on Trojan soil, is killed straight away, and leaves a young wife in a ‘half-built house’. ...
( Category:
Epic
January 19,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2018-11-08 | Author:S. C. Humphreys
twenty-one The Kleisthenic Tribes and Trittyes Reorganization Reforms introduced c.507, during the struggle for power after the expulsion of the tyrant Hippias, introduced a new tribal system: ten tribes, named ...
( Category:
Historical Study & Educational Resources
January 19,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2016-10-20 | Author:BORIS CHRUBASIK
Difference and distinction also became apparent in Tryphon’s royal epithet. Tryphon’s royal title on his coins was βασιλεὺς Τρύφων Αὐτοκράτωρ in the genitive.118 The epithet is highly unusual and is ...
( Category:
Greece
January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Stephen Bradford Marte [Marte, Stephen Bradford]
“Oh son, what unbearable pain I'm in! But you sleep serenely in the blue darkness of the night, lying down in this cheerless brass-chest. Oh fair little face, nestled in ...
( Category:
Greece
January 18,2020 )
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