Libros de

Thucydides

narrative and explanation

Thucydides and Pindar

historical narrative and the world of Epinikian poetry

Thucydides was one of the greatest of the ancient Greek historians and Pindar one of the greatest Greek poets, specializing in celebratory odes for victors in the great games - above all at Olympia. Simon Hornblower puts these two towering figures side-by-side for the first time ...

Spectacular power in the Greek and Roman city

In the great cities of Greece and Rome, politicians and kings sought to be seen as celebrities. They tried to appear wondrous and exciting to citizens and subjects. This study shows some of their methods and so reveals the importance of political advertisement and spectacle ...

Pyrrhonian skepticism

Throughout the history of philosophy, skepticism has posed one of the central challenges of epistemology. Yet the only skeptical view that has been truly held--by Sextus, Montaigne, Hume, Wittgenstein, and, most recently, Robert Fogelin--has been Pyrrohnian skepticism. Pyrrhonian skeptics do not assert Cartesian skepticism, but ...

The Oxford companion to Classical civilization

Mapping lives

the uses of biography

Why biography? Lives of writers, thinkers and artists, while unfailingly popular with readers, raise all kinds of theoretical problems. This volume explores the different faces and functions of the genre in a range of European settings from antiquity to the present.

The kings and queens of Britain

A detailed history of the kings and queens of Britain, ranging from mythical and early pre-conquest rulers to the present House of Windsor. From King Arthur to Queen Victoria, Owain Glyn Dwr to Vortigern, it gives coverage of the rulers, their regnal dates, policies, characters ...

A first course in logic

an introduction to model theory, proof theory, computability, and complexity

Emperor worship and roman religion

This is the first study of emperor worship among the Romans themselves, in Rome and its heartland Italy. It argues that emperor worship was indeed perfectly in keeping with Roman religious tradition, which has been generally misunderstood by a posterity imbued with radically different notions ...

Desert christians

an introduction to the literature of early monasticism

In this book, William Harmless provides an accessible introduction to early Christian monastic literature from Egypt and beyond. He introduces the reader to the major figures and literary texts, as well offering an up-to-date survey of current questions and scholarship in the field. The text ...

A commentary on Thucydides

.Vol. II: Books IV-V. 24

This is the second volume of a three-volume historical and literary commentary on Thucydides, the great fifth-century BC Greek historian. Books IV-V. 24 contain the Pylos-Sphakteria narrative and Brasidas' operations in the north of Greece. All the Greek is translated and there is a full ...

Implementing sustainable development

from global policy to local action

La sécurité financière et l'Etat

bilan et perspectives

La sécurité est un thème majeur des sociétés contemporaines. La sécurité est partout : elle est civile, militaire, mais aussi alimentaire, sanitaire, juridique et même# financière. Le 1er août 2003 a été promulguée en France la loi de sécurité financière. Mais cette loi ne contient qu ...

Québec

state & society

Québec: State and Society, third edition acts as a mirror to a society that continues to transform itself, that adjusts to changes taking place on the international scene, while providing an understanding of Québec's unique experience within the world. This completely revised edition is ...

Derechos reales

L'Embryon Surnuméraire

En ne définissant ni la personne ni l'embryon, le législateur a, en 1994, ouvert la voie à la controverse. Pourtant, son objectif semble avoir été de protéger l'embryon humain devenu accessible car détaché du corps de la femme, contre toute atteinte à son ...

L'Embryon Humain in Vitro et le Droit

Depuis l'apparition de la fécondation in vitro, l'embryon humain in vitro est devenu tangible, visible, congelable, étudiable, manipulable, destructible. Ce qui était caché et mystérieux est devenu un enjeu de pouvoir qui doit être appréhendé par le droit. Mais du point de vue ...

Manual de Derecho de familia

ÍNDICE: Conceptos generales. Parentesco. El matrimonio como acto jurídico. Cuestiones jurídicas previas a la celebración del matrimonio. Estructura y presupuestos del acto jurídico matrimonial. Nulidad del matrimonio. Efectos personales y patrimoniales. Disolución del vínculo matrimonial. Separación personal y divorcio vincular. Concubinato. Filiación. Adopción. Patria potestad ...

Fonction publique d''Etat et fonction publique territoriale:

Comparabilité et recrutements

Moderniser le système français de fonction publique, telle est la nécessité de la future "grande loi" annoncée par le Gouvernement pour 2004. Un des aspects essentiels de la réforme envisagée consiste en la modernisation des recrutements. Alors que l'affirmation d'une "République décentralisée" renforce ...

Títulos de crédito

letras de cambio, pagaré y cheque

ÍNDICE: El comportamiento empresarial como antecedente razonable. Daños por frustación de expectativas. Publicidad y marketing. Tarjetas de crédito. Banca electrónica. Concesionarias. Cajas de seguridad. Productores de seguro. Redes empresariales ligadas al consumo social.