Modern writers tend to be slightly more critical of Agesilaus ' reputation and achievements, reckoning him an excellent soldier, but one who had a poor understanding of sea power and siegecraft.

Modern historians disagree on whether the plague was a critical factor in the loss of the war.

Modern history writing requires the critical evaluation of sources, and does not accept God as a cause of events.

Modern critics call the Greek playwright Aristophanes one of the best known early satirists: his plays are known for their critical political and societal commentary, particularly for the political satire by which he criticized the powerful Cleon ( as in The Knights ).

Modern on-highway diesel engines are designed to provide maximum torque in a narrow RPM range ( usually 1200-1500 RPM ); having more gear ratios means the driver can hold the engine in its optimum range regardless of road speed ( drive axle ratio is also a critical factor ).

However, The Modern Lovers was given an enthusiastic critical reception, with critic Ira Robbins hailing it as " one of the truly great art rock albums of all time ," and it influenced numerous aspiring punk rock musicians on both sides of the Atlantic, including the Sex Pistols ( who covered " Roadrunner " on The Great Rock ' n ' Roll Swindle ).

A critical analysis of King's work can be found in S. T. Joshi's The Modern Weird Tale ( 2001 ).

There is an extensive critical analysis of Campbell's work in S. T. Joshi's book The Modern Weird Tale ( 2001 ), and an essay on his later work in Classics and Contemporaries ( 2009 ).

Joshi has also written a book-length study, Ramsey Campbell and Modern Horror Fiction ( 2001 ), and edited The Count of Thirty ( Necronomicon Press 1994 ), which contains critical appreciations by various authors and a long interview with Campbell himself.

Modern normative Judaism is in opposition to the lifestyle of asceticism and sometimes cast the Nazirite vow in a critical light.

Later that year, a retrospective of his work was held at the Museum of Modern Art, to considerable commercial and critical success.

The three Nicktoons found success by 1993, so Nickelodeon developed its fourth Nicktoon, Rocko's Modern Life, which was also a critical success.

Modern critical editions of the New Testament tend to conform most often to Alexandrian witnesses — especially Codex Sinaiticus and Codex Vaticanus.

OMD's 11th studio album, History of Modern, was released on 20 September 2010 to positive critical acclaim, reaching No. 28 in the UK album charts, and has sold well over 100, 000 in Europe.

* Biography and critical commentary at Modern American Poetry from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Modern dub producer Ryan Moore has received critical acclaim for his Twilight Circus project.

Modern scholars like Edward Said and others have given critical attention to the theoretical foundations of " orientalism " in works like Chrestomathie arabe.

Modern airliners that have fly-by-wire technology avoid the critical angle of attack by means of software in the computer systems that govern the flight control surfaces.

** In contrast, the conservative popular historian Paul Johnson in A History of the Modern World from 1917 to the 1980s ( 1983 ) was highly critical of his judgment.

" Nonetheless, in 1969 the Modern Language Association established a prize named after Lowell, awarded annually for " an outstanding literary or linguistic study, a critical edition of an important work, or a critical biography.

* Modern American Poetry, critical essays on Ashbery's works

Single-camera shows with no laugh track have become increasingly common on broadcast networks as well, with critical and popular hits such as Malcolm in the Middle and Modern Family, alongside multi-camera hits such as Two and a Half Men, The Big Bang Theory, 2 Broke Girls and Mike & Molly, which employ live audiences with sweetening performed during post-production.

During the last years of his life, Bryce served at the International Court at The Hague, supported the establishment of the League of Nations and published a book about Modern Democracy in 1921 that was rather critical of post-war democracy ; specifically, he strongly opposed the new right to vote for women.

Modern physics has developed the theory that all matter consists of minute waves of energy.

Modern cosmology developed along tandem tracks of theory and observation.

Modern European conservatives such as Edmund Burke have found the extreme idealism of either democracy may endanger broader liberties, and similarly reject " abstract reason " as a guide for political theory.

Modern film theory was born there.

Samarrai, however, also advises to handle this theory with care, as Medieval and Early Modern Muslim scribes often used etymologically " fanciful roots " in order claim the most outlandish things to be of Arabian or Muslim origin.

Modern game theory began with the idea regarding the existence of mixed-strategy equilibria in two-person zero-sum games and its proof by John von Neumann.

Modern scholarship has disproved Margaret Murray's theory, however various horned gods and mother goddesses were indeed worshipped in the British Isles during the ancient and early Medieval periods.

Less likely is the commonly proposed derivation from Welsh arth " bear " + ( g ) wr " man " ( earlier * Arto-uiros in Brittonic ); there are phonological difficulties with this theory — notably that a Brittonic compound name * Arto-uiros should produce Old Welsh * Artgur and Middle / Modern Welsh * Arthwr and not Arthur ( in Welsh poetry the name is always spelled Arthur and is exclusively rhymed with words ending in-ur-never words ending in-wr-which confirms that the second element cannot be wr " man ").

Modern group theory — a very active mathematical discipline — studies groups in their own right.

Primarily known for her work in Egyptology, which was " the core of her academic career ," she is also known for her propagation of the Witch-cult hypothesis, the theory that the witch trials in the Early Modern period of Christianized Europe and North America were an attempt to extinguish a surviving pre-Christian, pagan religion devoted to a Horned God.

As soon as Murray published her theory she received criticism from other historians who had studied the Early Modern witch trials.

Modern evolutionary theory defines fitness not by how long an organism lives, but by how successful it is at reproducing.

Modern biology rejects the literal and universal form of Haeckel's theory.

Modern quantum mechanics implies that uncertainty is inescapable, and thus that Laplace's vision needs to be amended: a theory of everything must include gravitation and quantum mechanics.

Modern uses of the word " theory " are derived from the original definition, but have taken on new shades of meaning, still based on the idea that a theory is a thoughtful and rational explanation of the general nature of things.

Other prominent academics associated with the University include Geoffrey Bennington, the creator of the MA programme in Modern French Thought ( Derrida, Lyotard ); Homi K. Bhabha ( postcolonialism ); Rachel Bowlby ( feminism, Woolf, Freud ); Geoff Cloke FRS ( Inorganic Chemistry ); Jonathan Dollimore ( Renaissance literature, gender and queer studies ); Katy Gardner ( social anthropology ); Gabriel Josipovici ( Dante, the Bible ); Michael Land FRS ( Animal Vision-Frink Medal )); Michael Lappert FRS ( Inorganic Chemistry ); Alan Lehmann FRS ( Genetics and Genome Stability ); ( Laura Marcus ( Woolf ); John Murrell FRS ( Theoretical Chemistry ); Peter Nicholls ( Pound, modernism ); John Nixon FRS ( Inorganic Chemistry )); Laurence Pearl FRS ( Structural Biology ); Guy Richardson FRS ( Neuroscience ); Jacqueline Rose ( feminism, psychoanalysis ); Nicholas Royle ( modern literature and theory ; deconstruction ); Alan Sinfield ( Shakespeare, sexuality, queer theory ); Norman Vance ( Victorian, classical reception ); Richard Whatmore & Knud Haakonssen ( intellectual historians ); Gavin Ashenden ( Senior Lecturer in English, University Chaplain, and Chaplain to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II ; Cedric Watts ( Conrad, Greene ); Marcus Wood ( postcolonialism ).

Modern scholars have reopened the question and some have found the assassination theory credible or compelling, but the theory is not universally accepted.

* Music: Modern music theory finds definition in Jean-Philippe Rameau's Treatise on Harmony.

Modern physics describes gravitation using the general theory of relativity by Einstein, in which it is a consequence of the curvature of spacetime governing the motion of inertial objects.

Modern work on gravitational theory began with the work of Galileo Galilei in the late 16th and early 17th centuries.

Modern Anglo-American law, like European civil law, is based on a will theory of contract, according to which all terms of a contract are binding on the parties because they chose those terms for themselves.