Thucydides
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Background: Back in March, The President of the Classical Association of Canada, Dr Mark Joyal contacted me about something I had mentioned on the Classics list way back in August of 2001. After poking around a bit, it was recalled that it was something I had come across on the About.com Canadian History site and…
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Until March 31st, you can access the following articles at Classical Quarterly for free! THE NATURE OF THE RELIGIOUS DISPUTE IN THUCYDIDES 1.25.4 Theodora Suk Fong Jim A NEW APPROACH TO THE DESCRIPTION OF A BABYLONIAN HYDRAULIC WORK BY HERODOTUS K.L. Katsifarakis and I. Avgoloupis TACITUS, ANNALS 1.1.1 AND ARISTOTLE Matthew Leigh MEMORY, RELIGION AND…
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This is one of those stories that aggravates me greatly because it seems to provide a ‘scientific’ corroboration for something in Herodotus, and so the evidence of such corroboration would be interesting, but instead the vast majority of the media reports concentrate on ‘implications’ (i.e. it happened 2500 years ago, so it might happen again!).…
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