Texts in Context: The Visitation of the Furies
“Pride goeth before a fall”; and Athens had much to be proud of in 431 BC.
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Texts in Context: The World of Pericles
Having driven the Persians off after the Battle of Platæa, Athens entered upon its classical era par excellence.
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Texts in Context: The Triumph of Hellas
The preposterous victory of the Greeks over the Persians is, in a sense, the beginning of a self-consciously Western civilization.
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Sorting Through Sophistries:Riders of the Viciouscycle—Part II
Other attempts at forcing agreement from an opponent, such as the loaded question and the petitio principii.
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Texts in Context: The Beginning of the Graeco-Persian War
Now we enter upon the “storied” parts of ancient history. A word seems in order, then, about stories; and so do a couple of stories.
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Sorting Through Sophistries: Riders of the Viciouscycle—Part I
One would hardly expect to meet a fallacy as blatantly unsatisfying as “I am right because reasons.” Alas, as so often, that unexpectedness does half its work for it.
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Texts in Context: Timeline of the Early Iron Age
Texts in Context:Timeline of the Early Iron Age By Gabriel Blanchard Several dates below are approximate and/or conjectural; some that are especially uncertain are noted with a question
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Texts in Context: Warriors and Wits
On the eve of the Persian invasion, let us look more closely at Athens and its opposite number, Sparta.
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Sorting Through Sophistries: Godwin’s Law (and Other Corks)
Cork (noun). An object put into the mouth of something to prevent fluids from escaping it.
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Texts in Context: A Cry From the East
Or rather, two cries. A revolution in intellectual culture was followed by a revolt, and that revolt was only a hint of the great drama soon to play out on the Hellene stage.
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