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Studies on the Fourth-Century Athenians' View of Their Past
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Paul’s Gospel Approach to the Athenians: A Missional Implication for Contemporary Nepalese Hindu Contexts
… that Paul’s gospel approach to the pantheistic Athenians (Acts 17:16–34) can be applied to the contemporary pantheistic Hindu context. Like Paul, the gospel workers today must hold to sound doctrine but should also understand their listeners’ context, cultural setting, and belief system in which …
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Conceptions of Law in Classical Athens
… thesis investigates the underlying assumptions Athenians had about their laws: it seeks to ask what Athenians assumed their laws were for, and where they thought those laws got their authority. It neither answers nor seeks to answer the difficult question of how Athenian juries made decisions, …
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Adapting to Domination: The Athenian reaction to the hegemony of the Macedonian Kings, Philip II and Alexander III, 338-323 B.C.E.
… battle of Chaeronea in 338. Despite this, the Athenians attempted to regain their former status in the Greek world for another fifteen years. The treaty formed from the League of Corinth created a political hiatus that allowed Athens to adapt to a new era of Macedonian rule. The political and …
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"The Land of the Fine Triremes:" Naval Identity and Polis Imaginary in 5th Century Athens
… and often contradictory ways in which the Athenians perceived and represented their navy, its larger purpose is to argue that the integration of multiple and various media has the potential to change long-standing interpretations of ancient societies and cultures. Relying on the literary …
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Strategies for the alleviation of traffic congestion in the central city of Athens
… excessive delays are everyday problems for the Athenians. The street network and the public transportation systems are not able to accommodate the existing traffic demands. An effort was made to address the transportation needs, that require an immediate solution, in the central Athens area. …
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Space in Aristophanes: Portraying the Civic and Domestic Worlds in Acharnians, Knights, and Wasps
… the consequences of the Peloponnesian war on the Athenians' civic and domestic life. Acharnians, Knights, and Wasps all literalize in an imaginative way the impact of the dysfunction of the polis - the assembly, the agora, the boule, the lawcourts - on the oikos and the householder. The plays not …
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The Rhetoric of Athenian Public Finance in Demosthenes
… the nature of Athenian financial deliberation. Athenians were sensitive to the long-term political consequences of strategic fiscal decisions and were prepared to prioritise these over short-term profit. Athenians also required financial arguments to be intelligible and credible, and so limited …
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Irony and women in Herodotus.
… to events and personalities and who introduces Athenians to themselves, from an ironic distance. We conduct a detailed analysis of each text, using narratological tools to explore characterisation and focus and how Herodotus creates a distance between himself and his (self-interested) logioi …
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Shame in Athenian Oratory
… who were considered immoral in the eyes of the Athenians since they intentionally dishonoured and humiliated their targets. Clear examples that can support this latter type of shame can be found in the matters that the speeches chosen for this project explore e.g. adultery in Lysias 1, shameful …
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Elites and society in modern Greece: cabinet circulation and systemic change (1946-1976)
… have appeared in cabinet positions, particularly Athenians. Furthermore, in keeping with the fast tempo of Greek socioeconomic development, a growing number of technocrats have risen to ministerial positions. Nevertheless, the study has discerned a lag between elite transformation and social …
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Hyper-Democracy: The Politics of Aristophanes
… inclusive and egalitarian) than anything the Athenians themselves had ever practiced. That is what I call hyper-democracy, whose critical vocabulary is provided by modern political theorists, especially (but not limited to) Jacques Rancière and Hannah Arendt. This conception is embodied in …