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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Thucydides."”.
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A historical commentary on Cornelius Nepos life of Themistocles
… Nepos consulted Greek sources, mainly consulted Thucydides. Nepos often paraphrases and quotes Thucydides, while also expressing his opinion on the death of Themistocles. When he departs from Thucydides' account, he uses Ephorus. The other extant, ancient sources on Themistocles are predominantly …
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Poking the Dragon: Australia-China Relations and a Truculent Fear of the Racialized 'Other'
… partner. Consequently, considerations of the 'Thucydides Trap' - where we imagine ourselves being thrust into a calamitous choice between the United States, as our security guarantor, and China, as our largest economic relationship - have rapidly entered the Overton window to become highly …
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Poking the Dragon: Australia-China Relations and a Truculent Fear of the Racialized 'Other'
… partner. Consequently, considerations of the 'Thucydides Trap' - where we imagine ourselves being thrust into a calamitous choice between the United States, as our security guarantor, and China, as our largest economic relationship - have rapidly entered the Overton window to become highly …
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"Studies in Sallust's Historical Selectivity in the ""Bellum Iugurthinum"""
… of Halicarnassus' criticism of Sallust's model Thucydides. I explore the possible points of contact between Dionysius and Sallust, and apply Dionysius' perception of Thucydides' aims to the question of what might give a particular event a claim to inclusion by Sallust, with an eye both on …
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"A Commentary to Longus, ""Daphnis and Chloe,"" Book 3"
… but calling to mind the intellectual rivalry of Thucydides and Herodotus; the famous episode of Daphnis' bird hunting; the inset tale of Echo and Pan; and the brilliant reworking of Sappho's poetry which closes the book. Throughout, particular attention is paid to philological matters and matters …
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Ibn Khaldun and the Modern Social Sciences: A Comparative Theoretical Inquiry into Society, the State, and Revolution
… in the pantheon of Western social science: Thucydides, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Rousseau, and Hegel. Such comparison is necessary, I believe, to emphasize the vast contextual differences among the authors while simultaneously highlighting their many theoretical similarities. By doing so, I …
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Low power data-dependent transform video and still image coding
This work introduces the idea of data dependent video coding for low power. Algorithms for the Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) and its inverse are introduced which exploit statistical properties of the input data in both the space and spatial frequency domains in order to minimize the total number …
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Fault tolerant adaptive routing in multicomputer networks
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1995.
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Conceptions of the Poetic in Classical Greek Prose
… work survives in significant degree (Herodotus, Thucydides), or whose projects are inherently interested in literary categorization (Gorgias). The second chapter continues the investigation, looking now at relevant fourth-century authors who show an explicit interest in literary categories and, …
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Plato's View of Tyranny
… Plato's literary tradition, from Archilochus to Thucydides and Isocrates, to situate his critical view of tyranny. Then I proceed to explore the descriptive and prescriptive aspects of Plato's view of tyranny in relation to Thrasymachus' claim that tyranny or injustice makes one happy. I pay …
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The foreign policy of Macedon c.513 to 346 BC
… identifies and explores. In his commentary on Thucydides, A. W. Gomme has this to say about Perdiccas’ frequent changes of allegiance: “he chopped and changed all his life, as far as we can see to no very good purpose, except that he kept his kingdom intact and his own throne.” (p201) From …
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The Causes of Tyranny as a Guide to Political Reform: St. Thomas More's History of King Richard III of England
… historyâ like the histories composed by Thucydides, Livy, Sallust, and Tacitus, a genre similar to drama which aims to reveal fundamental moral and political truths by following classical rhetorical principles. Chapter Two investigates the relationship between the nine textually …
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Jurors' Perceptions of Gender Differences in Expert Witness Testimony
… in the legal system has a history dating back to Thucydides in the fifth century B.C. The early focus of psychology was on the determination of insanity. Later, eye witness testimony (especially of children as witnesses) was challenged in the courtroom using psychological principles. Children are …
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‘The Oracular Tale’ and the Oracles of the Greeks: Storytelling, Conjecture, and Oracular Ambiguity in Herodotus’ Histories and its Historical and Cultural Context
… oracles from Herodotus’ Histories as well as Thucydides and the corpus of Greek inscriptions using a theory of storytelling called narratology. With this theory, I show that all stories about oracles are expressions of the same basic plot whether a narrator employs all of its typical episodes …
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The Origins of British-American Cooperation in Foreign Affairs 1897-1920
… or other grounds — and an exception to the ‘Thucydides trap’, which predicts conflict between a waning hegemon and a rising one. The argument here, by contrast, is that U.S. cooperation with Britain and its empire in foreign affairs, after the U.S. entered World War One in April 1917, was …
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David versus Goliath: The Power of Weakness in Asymmetric Warfare—Lessons from History
… beat Goliath? Since at least the time of Thucydides and the Peloponnesian Wars, the realist narrative in international relations measures power primarily in relative, coercive, and deterrent terms. Strong states should accordingly face fewer constraints and enjoy more options while …
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Armies, Navies and Economies in the Greek World in the Fifth and Fourth Centuries B.C.E.
… of contemporary literary evidence--especially Thucydides--shows that classical Greek amphibious and naval expeditions military forces always acquired their food from markets provided to them by cities and traders. A systematic comparative analysis confirms this conclusion by demonstrating that …
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Mysteries of Mankind, Secrets of the State, and Complexities of Conflict: A Dynamic, Multi-Level Pre-War Bargaining Model
… drawn prolific scholarly attention ever since Thucydides' dissection of the Peloponnesian War (431-404 BCE). Yet little consensus has been reached. What makes war causes so elusive? One reason, I contend, is that ideographic and nomothetic explanations of war have traditionally been considered …
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História de Portugal de Fernão de Oliveira: edição semidiplomática e análise da retórica nos topônimos de Portugal
… Greek Antiquity, specifically with Herodotus and Thucydides; iii. The incorporation of the biblical world in his text, with the author being a humanist subject, more focused on human’s issues, would be an influence of his ecclesiastical background or would it be the dualistic mentality of man in …
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Adaptation and alienation : persuasive strategies and audience responses in the rhetorical handbooks, Polybius, Josephus, and the Acts of the Apostles.
This dissertation evaluates the rhetorical strategies and persuasive impact of speeches in the Acts of the Apostles and select other ancient Greek historical narratives against the template provided by Greco-Roman rhetorical theory regarding the ways in which orators should adapt their speeches to …
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