The influence of Stesichorus on Greek tragedy is generally accepted. 1 Indeed, scholars have gone as far as to call the poems ‘tragedies in embryo’, 2 or to describe Stesichorean characterisation as ‘a prototype of the tragic principal’. 3 Yet most discussions of the relationship between Stesichorus and tragedy suggest little detailed engagement between the texts. Rather, the focus is confined ...

Common-pool resources are of fundamental importance in biology and the social sciences. The use of a shared limited resource is an exemplar of a situation in which individuals can behave cooperatively, through modest consumption, or selfishly, through excessive consumption (Hardin 1968, 1998; Berkes et al. 1989; Ostrom et al. 1999; Ostrom 1999; Frank 1989; Foster 2004). The essential paradox co...