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Alexander the Great is known to the Zoroastrian people as Alexander ‘the Accursed’. Was this nomenclature deserved? This undergraduate essay explores whether Alexander could be considered a war criminal, analysis being down through a... more
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      Ancient History, Alexander the Great, Ancient Greek History, Greco-Persian Wars
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      History, Ancient History, Classical Archaeology, Prehistoric Archaeology
'The Alexander Romance and Hellenistic political economies' in R. Stoneman, K. Nawotka, and A. Wojciechowska (eds), The Alexander Romance in History and Literature (Ancient Narrative Supplement), Groningen, pages 111-128
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      Hellenistic Literature, Hellenistic History, Alexander the Great, Ancient Greek History
Предмет настоящего эссе - наверное самая знаменитая из культурологических мнимостей науки об античности - концепция "эллинского пессимизма" созданная Ницше и поддерживаемая, несмотря на оговорки, многими исследователями и по сей день.... more
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In this chapter, by reference to modern research on populism, the manifestations of this phenomenon in fifth century Athens are analysed, while pointing to some legal responses to counter it. Despite the rigorous and comprehensive study... more
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      Populism, Ancient Greek History, Ancient Greek Politics, Ancient Greek Law
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      Roman History, Ancient economies (Archaeology), Ancient Greek History, Roman Economy
La combinaison de différents critères permet d’établir, en toute certitude, que le système de timbrage rhodien a été conçu pour distinguer certaines catégories de fabricants en fonction de leur genre (masculin ou féminin) et de leur... more
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      Archaeology, Classical Archaeology, Gender Studies, Hellenistic History
The latest results of my research project on Greek theatre in Roman Italy during the Republic will be presented in a seminar and a public lecture taking place at Monash University, 17-18 October 2019. See attached abstracts.
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      Ancient History, Classics, Greek Literature, Greek Tragedy
An Ionic funerary prostyle naiskos (max. H: 2.60 m), dated to about AD 140, was uncovered in the village of Angista Railway Station (Serres). Two tall, serpent – entwined torches, standing parallel to the columns, are signs of a... more
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      Classical Archaeology, Greek Epigraphy, Ancient Greek History, Roman Provincial Archaeology
Several inscriptions from Roman Greece mention shortages of food or related phenomena. But it is not the crises themselves that these inscriptions aim to present. More importantly, they want to inform us about the successful solution to... more
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      Ancient Greek History, Euergetism
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      Numismatics, Ancient Greek History, Ancient Greek Numismatics
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      Archaeology, Classical Archaeology, Sculpture, Ancient Greek History
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      Greek Epigraphy, Ancient Greek History
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      Federalism, Numismatics, Ancient Greek History, Ancient Greek Numismatics
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      Federalism, Numismatics, Ancient Greek History, Ancient Greek Numismatics
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      Roman History, Ancient Greek History, Exempla, Exemplary Literacy Instruction
The way in which we shape a particular memory based on tragic facts of the past has an effect on the knowledge we have of that past. In this article, we aim to discern the reliability of two episodes in which Chilon of Sparta and Solon of... more
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      Aristotle, History and Memory, Ancient Historiography, Collective Memory
La Pnice è una collina, situata nelle vicinanze dell’Acropoli, scelta dagli Ateniesi come sede dell’ἐκκλησία, il massimo organo di governo, con poteri deliberativi e consultivi, a cui erano ammessi tutti i cittadini in possesso dei... more
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      Ancient History, Classics, Roman History, Ancient Greek History
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      Ancient Greek History, Neo-Assyrian studies