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Threats of Force

International Law and Strategy

By: Francis Grimal

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Threats of Force

International Law and Strategy

By: Francis Grimal

Adopting an interdisciplinary approach and drawing on the works of strategic literature and international relations theory, this book examines the theoretical nature behind a threat of force in order to inform and explain why and how the normative structure operates in the way it does. The core of the book addresses whether Article 2(4) is adequately suited to the current international climate and, if not, whether an alternative means of rethinking Article 2(4) would provide a better solution.

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Routledge

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0415609852

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International Law and Strategy

By: Francis Grimal

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Virgil's Augustan Epic

By: Francis Cairns

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Virgil's Augustan Epic

By: Francis Cairns

An examination of the main characters in the Aeneid - Aeneas himself, Dido and Turnus - in the light of Virgil's contemporary Augustan political and literary ideology. The characters and the plot and incident of the epic are seen as embodying and exemplifying first the ancient ideals of kingship and concord, and second the Roman self-identification as at once 'Italian' and 'Trojan', and finally as reflecting the literary self-evaluation of the Augustan age. In the literary area, Virgil's relations with contemporary Roman elegy, with early Greek lyric and, most important, with Homer, are studied and reevaluated. Virgilian scholars and students of Augustan literature in general will find this book of interest to them.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521353580

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9780521353588

La raison des signes

Présages, rites, destin dans les sociétés de la méditerranée ancienne

By: Stella Georgoudi,Renée Koch Piettre,Francis Schmidt

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La raison des signes

Présages, rites, destin dans les sociétés de la méditerranée ancienne

By: Stella Georgoudi,Renée Koch Piettre,Francis Schmidt

Comment prévoir l’inconnu et contrôler l’inattendu ? Les Anciens ont tenté de répondre à ces questions en interprétant des signes dans lesquels il reconnaissaient des messages divins. Ce recueil permet de comparer la diversité de leurs questionnements dans les sociétés polythéistes ou monothéistes de la Méditerranée antique. Il interroge premièrement la construction rituelle des signes au sein des institutions divinatoires ; deuxièmement, des phénomènes naturels spontanés, qui, apparus hors de toute institution, ont néanmoins valeur de présages ou d’avertissements ; troisièmement, l’intentionnalité manifestée à travers l’intervention divine dans l’histoire des peuples ou les vies singulières ; quatrièmement, l’épistémologie des signes dans des élaborations philosophiques ou théologiques qui éclairent la tension entre données oraculaires et contrôle ritualisé des signes, entre données révélées et argumentations raisonnées visant à neutraliser les injonctions du destin. How to foresee the unknown and master the unexpected? Ancient people tried to answer those questions by interpreting signs considered as divine messages. In this volume, the writers compare and examine this manifold questioning in the polytheistic and monotheistic societies of the ancient Mediterranean Sea. In the first place, it is shown how signs were ritually constructed within instituted practice of divination ; second, how, although some spontaneous natural phenomena appeared out of any instituted context, may nevertheless constitute omens or monition ; third, how the gods’ intervention may reveal a sort of intention in the course of national history or individual life ; finally, the essays study the epistemology of signs at work in some philosophical or theological elaborations, which may enlighten the tension between oracular evidence and ritual control of signs, and between revealed facts and reasoning arguments intending to neutralize the injunctions of the divine.

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644

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BRILL

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9004210911

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9789004210912

Roman Lyric

Collected Papers on Catullus and Horace

By: Francis Cairns

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Roman Lyric

Collected Papers on Catullus and Horace

By: Francis Cairns

Francis Cairns has made well-known contributions to the study of Roman Epic and Elegy. Papers on Catullus and Horace assembles his substantial body of work on Roman Lyric - about 30 papers published between 1969 and 2010 in many European and American periodicals, themed volumes and Festschriften, along with some new papers. Many aspects of the lyric poetry of Catullus and Horace are treated in this collection. Particular emphasis is given to the political and religious interests of both poets, to their interactions with their contemporaries, to the ‛learning’ which informs their poetry, and to their generic practices. Philological problems of text and interpretation are treated pari passu, as are relevant aesthetic questions. The volume is fully indexed and contains a composite bibliography and addenda and corrigenda. Papers on Catullus and Horace will make access to this body of important scholarly material easier and more convenient for scholars and students of Latin poetry.

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Walter de Gruyter

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3110267225

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9783110267228

Europa World Year Book 2005

By: Taylor & Francis Group

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Europa World Year Book 2005

By: Taylor & Francis Group

First published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Routledge

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1857433041

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Threats of Force

Threats of Force

Threats of Force

Threats of Force

Virgil's Augustan Epic

Virgil's Augustan Epic

La raison des signes

La raison des signes

Roman Lyric

Roman Lyric

Europa World Year Book 2005

Europa World Year Book 2005

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