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Athenian orators, politicians and demagogues
Ancient Athens public scene – during and even after its Pentecontaetia – was quite accustomed to display, beside those cit ...
Political absenteeism in ancient Athens
The vastly celebrated Athenian democracy, still nowadays almost unanimously considered as the mother of all the modern forms of government ...
Basileus, wanax and king in Homer
The precise contextualisation of the Homeric poems is still to a certain extent inconclusive: many scholars have pursued this undertaking yet reac ...
The death of Philip II: a cold case
The death of Philip II of Macedonia is permeated by particularly mystifying circumstances and most likely was only partly influenced by previou ...
Heroic virtues in the Homeric world
The Homeric poems and some legends and myths narrated by posthumous authors are the only literary source we can rely on in order to assess the ...
The women of Heinrich Schliemann
On Christmas 1890 in Piazza Carità in Naples, Italy an unknown lonely old gentleman dressed in simple attire ? clearly a foreigner ? while strolli ...
Proud faith in democracy
In these last weeks a sudden and unexpected wave of optimism, proud patriotism and faith in the power of democracy has moved on and been spreading almost a ...
In praise of daydreaming
In this moneymaking, high-speed, success-oriented and appearance-is-all ruled world habitually ?daydreamer? is a slightly offensive adjective of mockery w ...
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