On Thucydides i. 77. 1

Thucydides and Democratic Peace

Thucydides is an important author for any discussion of the possibilities for an ancient Greek democratic peace. Though democratic peace did not, in fact, seem to function in classical Greece, a number of passages in Thucydides show that an affinity did exist among democratic factions and city-states in the context of hostile competition between democratic and oligarchic regimes. Thucydides rem...

Current Neurobiology 2010; 1 (1): 77-81

During development of the central nervous system, successive intrinsic and extrinsic programs control the specification, proliferation, and migration of individual neuronal cell types that ultimately result in the formation of precise synaptic connections. In previous research, expression profiling of the developing mouse cerebellum identified genes expressed during specific phases of neuronal ...

"Hope, Danger's Comforter": Thucydides, Hope, Politics

Thucydides on Athens ’ Democratic Advantage in the Archidamian War

In book 1 Thucydides’ Corinthians attribute Athenian military success in the Archidamian war to an inherent national character. They empahsize the characteristics of agility, speed, and common-good seeking. Thucydides’ readers come to realize that the Athenian “democratic advantage” stemmed from a superior capacity to organize useful knowledge. Knowledge management in military affairs can be le...

ROENTGENOGRAM OF THE MONTH 77 © 1 ? i D # { 174 } Rapidly Progressing Diffuse Pulmonary Infiltrate

A 30-year-old man, a nonsmoker, was admitted to the hospital with symptoms of alcoholic withdrawal. A roentgenogram of the chest was obtained on admission (Fig 1). The physical examination was unremarkable except for neurologic changes. A few days later, he developed fever, became hypoxemic and dyspneic, and worsened clinically. A second chest roentgenogram was obtained 12 days after admission ...