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  • RECENT RESEARCH ON THUCYDIDES

  • Daniel Sutton
  • Journal:
    The Classical Review , First View
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    23 December 2025, pp. 1-9
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  • HERODOTUS ON THE EXPEDITION OF DATIS AND ARTAPHRENES: ATHENIAN IMPERIALISM MIRRORED IN THE FIRST PERSIAN WAR

  • Julian Degen
  • Journal:
    The Classical Quarterly , First View
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    17 December 2025, pp. 1-14
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  • By accepting a later dating for the composition of the Histories, this article argues that Herodotus mirrors Athenian imperialism in his account of the First Persian War to convey a political message to contemporary recipients. In doing so, he departs from the prevailing tradition of the expedition of Datis and Artaphrenes by creating a narrative that manipulates Persian methods of conquest, presenting them in a manner that appears emblematic of Athenian imperialism. In this way, the Herodotean Persians do not adhere to their expected cultural script, but act out the Athenian script. This reading offers a new understanding of Herodotus’ account of the Persian campaign as conveying a message to the Athenians who began to recognize that their former policies toward their allies were transgressive imperialism. As a result, his account of the First Persian War is a sophisticated meditation on the effects of imperialism rather than a straightforward depiction of historical events.

  • MINOAN STUDIES

  • Matthew Haysom
  • Journal:
    The Classical Review , First View
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    12 December 2025, pp. 1-6
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Impaired Consciousness in Ancient Medical Texts
  • Andrés Pelavski
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    04 December 2025
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    04 December 2025
  • Impaired consciousness is a topic lying at the intersection of science and philosophy. It encourages reflection on questions concerning human nature, the body, the soul, the mind and their relation, as well as the blurry limits between health, disease, life and death. This is the first study of impaired consciousness in the works of some highly influential Greek and Roman medical writers who lived in periods ranging from Classical Greece to the Roman Empire in the second century CE. Andrés Pelavski employs the notion and contrasts ancient and contemporary theoretical frameworks in order to challenge some established ideas about mental illness in antiquity. All the ancient texts are translated and the theoretical concepts clearly explained. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.

  • Bibliography

  • Andrés Pelavski, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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    Impaired Consciousness in Ancient Medical Texts
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    04 December 2025, pp 205-223
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  • Chapter 5 - Galen’s delirium: hot and dry dusKrasia of the hêgemonikon

  • from Part I - Delirium
  • Andrés Pelavski, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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    Impaired Consciousness in Ancient Medical Texts
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    04 December 2025, pp 57-75
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  • Summary

    Galen system is based on three pillars: the affected body part, the type of qualities imbalanced, and the degree of imbalance. Therefore, he only distinguishes between mental illness and impaired consciousness when there is a difference between these two entities in any of these three pillars. Thus, he distinguishes phrenitis from melancholia but not from mania. The emphasis on the system, on the other hand, enables him a very tight notion of disease, where symptoms, mechanisms, affected organ and treatment are closely linked.

  • Chapter 9 - Sleep in post-Hellenistic sources

  • from Part II - Sleep
  • Andrés Pelavski, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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    Impaired Consciousness in Ancient Medical Texts
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    04 December 2025, pp 110-132
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    Like their forerunners, post-Hellenistic doctors also grappled with the unclear boundaries between healthy versus pathologic sleep, and consciousness-unconsciousness. Furthermore, they incorporated new diseases and redefined others - like lethargy - that were specifically associated with this process. Celsus considered sleep as all-or-nothing phenomenon, without recognising different depths. Regarding mental capacities, he subsumed most of them in his idea of mens/animus. Aretaeus, on the other hand did conceive different depths of sleep, and his eclectic method enabled him to find alternative pathophysiological explanations to characterise several of its main features. Similarly, although his organization of mental capacities varied according to what he was explaining, the opposition gnômê-aisthêsis was important in his idea of mind.

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