L’articolo costituisce una riflessione sulla segretezza del voto nel mondo greco, espressa attraverso la procedura della psephophoria che prevedeva l’utilizzo di pietruzze come strumenti voto. Si propone un’analisi alcune testimonianze letterarie, epigrafiche e iconografiche che, in qualche modo, registrano presenza segreto o fanno a esso riferimento. L’analisi rivela non era caratteristica con...

Following conventional wisdom Theology as an academic discipline (taught at Universities) is something which developed only in the Middle Ages, or in a certain sense even as late as the 19 century. The present essay in contrast traces its origins to Classical Antiquity and outlines its development in early Christianity, especially with a view to institutions of higher education that existed in ...

Last year the U.S. Senate overwhelmingly approved the expansion of the Atlantic alliance. Whereas some advocates of enlarging NATO, particularly Eastern European leaders for whom the Soviets’ iron grip is an all too recent memory, stress the extension of the alliance’s traditional deterrent function, others acknowledge that Russia is in no position to reconquer its former empire. Rather, they a...