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In this article, two questions are posed: Just how reliable is the evidence concerning Pythagoras's mathematical studies, and can we reconstruct his contribution to mathematics? All known fragments of evidence by fourth-century B.C.... more
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      ArtHistory of MathematicsLiteratureScience
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Descubra la vida y cultura en la brillante Grecia Clásica. Su sistema político fragmentado y los derechos de los ciudadanos, la educación, las artes y el ocio, la vivienda y el urbanismo, sus ceremonias y mitología, los viajes, la... more
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      History of Daily LifeAncient Greek HistoryClassical GreeceGrecia Antigua
This is a prefinal version of a critical bibliography published with Oxford University Press as: Hin, S. (2015) ‘Ancient Demography’, in: Clayman, D. L. (ed.) Oxford Bibliographies in Classics. New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 30.... more
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      Ancient HistoryDemographyAncient Greek HistoryAncient Roman Social History
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      Roman HistoryGender and SexualityWomen in the ancient worldAncient Greek History
Published in Trowel Volume XV 2014. An archaeological journal for students by students to drive forward future research.
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      ArchaeologyExperimental ArchaeologyHistorical ArchaeologyEnvironmental Archaeology
This is a revision to the previous paper on the 10 letters.
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      ArchaeologyPlatoHistory of ReligionReligious Education
Through a careful analysis of the historical records of travels to the Mani peninsula from the 16th century onward, I argue that the commonly-ascribed identity of the Maniots, as descended directly from the Spartans of Classical... more
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      Self and IdentityIdentity (Culture)Modern GreeceModern Greek History
Diffused by the historiographical renewal of the sixties and the seventies, the concept of initiation rites has a long history. In the field of Greek studies, while the heuristic potential of this concept borrowed from anthropology is... more
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      Ancient Greek HistoryRites of PassageHistoriographieAnthropology and History
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      Ancient Greek HistoryAncient Greek MythologyAncient Greek LiteratureClassics and Ancient History: society, history and religion of the ancient Greeks
This paper objectively presents a provable construction of generating a length of magnitude , as the geometrical solution for the ancient problem of doubling the volume of a cube. Cube duplication is believed to be impossible under the... more
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      Geometry And TopologyAlgebraic GeometryNon Euclidean GeometryComputer Graphics
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      Achaemenid PersiaAncient Near EastAncient PersiaAncient Greek History
Chapter III (55) How Roman Arms Came to Conquer the Successors of Alexander (55) How Much More Successful Was the Roman Legion than the Macedonian Phalanx? (57) The Best Soldiers versus the Best Formation (59) Why the Greeks... more
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      HistoryAncient HistoryEuropean HistoryMilitary History
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      Ancient Greek ReligionAncient Greek HistoryHellenistic DelosPolychromy in Ancient Art
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      Greek EpigraphyAthenian DemocracyAncient Greek History
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      Ancient HistoryAthenian DemocracyAncient Greek HistoryPericles
This article reinterprets Thucydides's analysis of the post-Periclean turn in Athenian politics by reading it within the context of contemporary "tragic" and "scientific" explanatory traditions. It finds in this analysis an ambitious... more
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      Ancient HistoryGreek TragedyPolitical TheoryDemocratic Theory
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      MythologyClassicsAncient Greek RhetoricAncient Greek History
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      Ancient HistoryAncient Greek HistoryClassics: Ancient History and Archaeology
Ce livre entreprend tout d’abord d’éclairer le lien étroit qui unit l’invention de la démocratie et l’esclavage en Grèce ancienne. En étudiant la façon dont est défini à Athènes l’homme-marchandise qu’est l’esclave, les formes... more
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      Ancient HistoryLabour historySlaveryHistory of Slavery
The finds presented here, which mainly come from the excavations conducted between 1985 and 1995, yield substantial information about eating habits, everyday life and the utensils manufactured for daily use. Since the finds originate... more
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      Cultural HistoryArchaeologyClassical ArchaeologyAnatolian Archaeology
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      Landscape ArchitectureInitiation Practices (Anthropology)Mysteries (Greek Religion)Ancient Greek Religion
During plebeian tribunat of Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus 133 BC, main ideological and political adviser was Caius Blossius. He came from Cumae, campanian town and community. Caius Blossius was adherent of radical version of stoicism,... more
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      HistoryAncient HistoryArchaeologyPhilosophy
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      Ancient Greek HistoryAncient Greek Literature
It is well known that the Western Culture as we know it today pays a big debt to the encounter of two among the biggest civilizations of the antiquity: the Greeks and the Romans. Since the cultural roots of our present European world are... more
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      Ancient HistoryClassical ArchaeologyClassicsRoman History
Interpretação pessoal dos poemas da poetisa Safo
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      Greek LiteratureLiteratureLiterary CriticismLiterary Theory
For further information see http://numismatics.org/store/whitegold/
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      Economic HistoryClassical ArchaeologyNear Eastern ArchaeologyClassics
Analisi degli elementi di paragone e di diversità tra Esiodo ("Opere e giorni") e Virgilio ("Georgiche"), con particolar attenzione al mito delle cinque età, in dipendenza del quadro storico e delle finalità delle due opere
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      Greek LiteratureLatin LiteratureGreek HistoryRoman History
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      Greek LiteratureAncient Greek History
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      Ancient HistoryOntologyDigital HumanitiesNumismatics
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      Ancient Greek HistoryStoria GrecaAncient Political ThoughtStoria Del Pensiero Politico
This article provides an in-depth analysis of Gorgias's Funeral Oration. The chapter shows that Gorgias’s Epitaphios was most likely composed and disseminated at some point in the last quarter of the fifth century; that the text was... more
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      Ancient HistoryClassicsHomerRhetoric
Most slaves in the Greek world were imported non-Greeks and their offspring. Yet little is known of the entry into slavery of individuals from the non-Greek periphery. Far more promising for studying entry into slavery is a less... more
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      Ancient HistoryHistory of SlaveryAncient economies (Archaeology)History of Piracy
Recent scholarship has been divided over the question of whether a categorization of the disabled existed in antiquity. Close readings of Lysias, Plutarch, and other ancient Greek authors strongly suggest that some Greeks did construct a... more
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      Disability StudiesDisability HistoryAncient Greek HistoryDisability
Η Μεσόγειος, η Ελλάδα και ο Κόσμος, Αθήνα: Παπαζήσης 2014, 55-77.
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      NumismaticsAncient numismatics (Archaeology)Ancient Greek HistoryAncient Greek Numismatics
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The famous dedication by Xenokrateia to the river god Kephisos and other divinities not far from the city of Athens in c. 400 BC (NM 2756; IG I3 987; IG II2 4547) is a rare example of a sizeable, public ego-document by a citizen woman.... more
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      Ancient HistoryClassical ArchaeologyGender StudiesClassics
This is the preliminary edition of a collection of translated ancient Greek sources on: family and household, sexuality, social groups, travel and foreigners, education, religion, military, leisure and sports, and science. The book is... more
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      Ancient Greece (Anthropology)Ancient Greek ReligionAncient Greek HistoryAncient Greek Historiography
Il volume propone un quadro sintetico ma aggiornato delle forme del potere nel mondo greco tra iv e i secolo a.C., fra la tirannide e la nuova concezione di regalità introdotta da Alessandro Magno. La chiave di lettura è la reazione... more
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      Greek TragedyHellenistic LiteratureHellenistic HistoryAncient Greek History
The following is a brief discussion of Emperor Hadrian's hellenized cultural influence on Rome. Surely Rome had had extensive contact with Greece previously, as reflected in their art, literature, and other forms of cultural expression.... more
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      Classical ArchaeologyGreek LiteratureRoman HistoryClassical Art
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      Roman HistoryRoman HistoriographyEpigraphy (Archaeology)Etruscan
The article analyses one of the hexametric poems copied on a second century AD papyrus, possibly from Hermupolis, P.Lit.Goodspeed 2: a Hellenistic hymn to Aphrodite celebrated as a patroness of the sea and of wedded love. This portrayal... more
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      ClassicsGreek LiteratureHellenistic LiteratureWomen's Studies
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      HistoryOttoman HistoryAncient Greek HistoryDidactics (History)
P. A. Evdokimov The Cypriot Politeia of Aristotle and Royal Power in Cyprus There are just a few remained fragments of Aristotle's lost Cypriot politeia in the excerpts of later periods. It is worth noting, that all these extracts are... more
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      Classical ArchaeologyAristotleCyprus StudiesAncient History of Cyprus
Since Nietzsche published his study The Birth of Tragedy in 1872, there has been a common misconception that the ancient Greek gods Apollo and Dionysus are two parts of a polarity, a dichotomy, an antithetical pair. This essay argues that... more
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      Cultural HistoryMythologyAncient Greek HistoryGreco-Roman Mythology
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      Second SophisticRoman HistoriographyCassius DioAncient Greek History
Türkçeye Fransızcadan geçen ve sömürgecilikle eşdeğer bir kelime olarak kullanılan kolonicilik genel anlamıyla bir ulusun ya da topluluğun yabancı bir toprağı işgal etmesi, işgal edilen bölgeye göçmenlerin yerleştirilmesi ve ilhak edilen... more
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      HistoryAncient HistoryPhoeniciansColonialism
The Rule of Law as the Rule of Reason: the Second-Best Solution of Plato's Laws
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      PlatoAncient PhilosophyGreek LawAncient Greek History