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  • Ancient Rome: An Anthology of Sources

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    This book contains writings by twenty-three ancient Roman authors, newly translated and equipped with brief introductions and explanatory notes. It includes some well-known classical works, intriguing texts by lesser-known...

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  • The Art of History: Literary Perspectives on Greek and Roman Historiography

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    A significant trend in the study of Greek and Roman historiographers is to accept that their works are to a degree both science and fiction. As scholarly interest broadens, in addition to evaluating ancient historians on the...

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  • Critiquing Hume’s Sentimentalism Against Moral Relativism

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    Ober, Maizie Jane

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    In this paper, I critique Hume’s sentimentalist theory and propose an expansion of his common point of view in order to escape some of the dangers of meta-ethical relativism. My goal is to revise Hume’s universalism while...

  • A Likely Story: Rhetoric and the Determination of Truth in Polybius' Histories

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    I argue that Polybius demands that a central duty of the historian should be to employ rhetoric to determine which sources are credible, define the course of past events, and convince the reader that the resulting historical...

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  • The Tragic Phylarchus

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    For more information on the published version, visit De Gruyter's Website., I argue that when Polybius attacks Phylarchus for confusing the ends of history and tragedy, he does so with a traditional conception of tragedy, its...

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