Dino Piovan
Biographic Data
| ID | 4124929 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dino Piovan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dino |
| FAMILY NAME | Piovan |
| SIGNATURE | PIOVAN D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Verona |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Brill's Companion to the Reception of Athenian Democracy
The Unexpected Consequences of War. Thucydides On the Relationship between War, Civil War and the Degradation of Language
In this paper I intend to provide an analysis of Thucydides's account of war in the third section of his historical work (3.82-83). Despite some of his early commentators accused him of a certain obscurity, the notions of polemos and stasis he introduces in this text deserve to be discussed and can give a number of insights into the problem of civil war in Western history. My core argument is that there is a clear analogy between Thucydides's con…
Criticism Ancient and Modern. Observations on the Critical Tradition of Athenian Democracy
This essay considers the tradition of criticism against Athenian democracy, in both ancient and modern times. Often this critical tradition has been seen to adduce greater interest than the very democratic experience from which it arose; in this it has been aided, in part, by the asserted absence of an ancient theory of democracy. Yet there are significant traces of a democratic theory in the ancient sources, which ought to serve both as a theore…
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Criticism Ancient and Modern. Observations on the Critical Tradition of Athenian Democracy
This essay considers the tradition of criticism against Athenian democracy, in both ancient and modern times. Often this critical tradition has been seen to adduce greater interest than the very democratic experience from which it arose; in this it has been aided, in part, by the asserted absence of an ancient theory of democracy. Yet there are significant traces of a democratic theory in the ancient sources, which ought to serve both as a theore…
The Unexpected Consequences of War. Thucydides On the Relationship between War, Civil War and the Degradation of Language
In this paper I intend to provide an analysis of Thucydides's account of war in the third section of his historical work (3.82-83). Despite some of his early commentators accused him of a certain obscurity, the notions of polemos and stasis he introduces in this text deserve to be discussed and can give a number of insights into the problem of civil war in Western history. My core argument is that there is a clear analogy between Thucydides's con…
Brill's Companion to the Reception of Athenian Democracy
Law (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Argument (complex analysis (1 work) · Art (1 work) · Augustinian Studies and Theology (1 work) · Contemporary and Historical Greek Studies (1 work) · Criticism (1 work) · Democracy (1 work) · Emancipation (1 work)