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https://www.academia.edu/9547558/A_womans_life_in_other_ages_by_Arnold_J_Toynbee_with_an_e…

`A woman's life in other ages', by Arnold J. Toynbee, with an editorial introduction* Penelope J. Cor®eld Royal Holloway, University of London Paolo Ferrari Istituto Nazionale per la Storia del Movimento di Liberazione in Italia Abstract The historian Arnold Toynbee's characteris…

https://www.academia.edu/22753044/Mytilene_Lampsakos_Chios_and_the_Financing_of_the_Sparta…

…406 and spring 405 the Chians were asked to mint increasingly large sums by the Spartans. In 411 with Mindaros the pre- existing denominations (2.6g) were appropriate for the size (4.5 talents) and purpose (covering day-to-day expenses) of the payment. In 406 with Kallikratidas t…

https://www.academia.edu/4849417/%C3%89v%C3%A9nements_de_circonstance_The_Classical_Tradit…

…e of the poem was a potent one. It describes the speech Leo- nidas makes to the Spartans when deciding to march to Thermopylae in the knowledge that he will not return. The text in Van Haren’s poem is reminis- cent of a similar speech in Glover’s poem, with both pieces stressing …

https://www.academia.edu/10894385/Creating_the_Enlightenment_Prince_Maurice_Ashley_Cooper_…

…for his Persian system, but he sought to adapt it for quite different ends. The Spartans may have controlled a large non-citizen population; but they did so utterly out of self-interest. In contrast, the Persian elite as described by Xenophon ruled the rest of the population in t…