Libros de

Ariadna

una interpretación queer

 En este libro, Ariadna nombra lo real y lo hace desde un trazo estético, pensante y experiencial de lo femenino en su devenir histórico hasta nuestros días, que cobra sentido en el mundo de la cultura a través de Esquilo, Sófocles, Ovidio, Nietzsche, Marker, Butler ...

Kafka

Diario de un desaparecido

El masoquista, el perfeccionista indolente aterrorizado por la exhaustividad. Franz el metamórfico y sus dobles, desalineado y aislado, pasivo y parásito. Franz, novio eterno y sádico. Franz: el ángel y el vampiro que, entre cuatro paredes, busca al Indestructible en la noche. Kafka. Kafka el ...

La nueva Ley del Medicamento

Real Decreto Legislativo 1/2015, de 24 de julio, texto refundido de la Ley de Garantías y uso racional de los medicamentos y productos sanitarios

Esta nueva edición presenta el Real Decreto Legislativo 1/2015, de 24 de julio, por el que se aprueba el texto refundido de la Ley de garantías y uso racional de los medicamentos y productos sanitarios. Con él queda derogada la Ley 29/2006, de ...

The shape of the Roman order

the Republic and its spaces

In recent years, a long-established view of the Roman Empire during its great age of expansion has been called into question by scholars who contend that this model has made Rome appear too much like a modern state. This is especially true in terms of ...

Commanders and Command in the Roman Republic and Early Empire

In this work, Fred Drogula studies the development of Roman provincial command using the terms and concepts of the Romans themselves as reference points. Beginning in the earliest years of the republic, Drogula argues, provincial command was not a uniform concept fixed in positive law ...

Women's religious activity in the Roman Republic

Expanding the discussion of religious participation of women in ancient Rome, Celia E. Schultz demonstrates that in addition to observances of marriage, fertility, and childbirth, there were more--and more important--religious opportunities available to Roman women than are commonly considered. Based on research in ancient literature ...

Ennius' Annals

poetry and history

In the context of recent challenges to long-standing assumptions about the nature of Ennius' Annals and the editorial methods appropriate to the poem's fragmentary remains, this volume seeks to move Ennian studies forward on three axes. First, a re-evaluation of the literary and historical ...

Gods and mortals in early Greek and Near Eastern mythology

This volume centres on one of the most important questions in the study of antiquity - the interaction between Greece and the Ancient Near East, from the Mycenaean to the Hellenistic periods. Focusing on the stories that the peoples of the eastern Mediterranean told about the ...

Immortality in ancient philosophy

Immortality was central to ancient philosophical reflections on the soul, happiness, value and divinity. Conceptions of immortality flowed into philosophical ethics and theology, and modern reconstructions of ancient thought in these areas sometimes turn on the interpretation of immortality. This volume brings together original research ...

The slow fall of Babel

languages and identities in late antique Christianity

This is the story of the transformation of the ways in which the increasingly Christianized elites of the late antique Mediterranean experienced and conceptualized linguistic differences. The metaphor of Babel stands for the magnificent edifice of classical culture that was about to reach the sky ...

The Cambridge companion to Latin American Independence

Bringing together experts across Latin America, North America, and Spain, The Cambridge Companion to Latin American Independence innovatively revisits Latin American independence within a larger regional, temporal, and thematic framework to highlight its significance for the Age of Atlantic Revolutions. The volume offers a synthetic ...

Cicero on the philosophy of religion

On the nature of the Gods and On divination

During the months before and after he saw Julius Caesar assassinated on the Ides of March, 44 BC, Cicero wrote two philosophical dialogues about religion and theology: On the Nature of the Gods and On Divination. This book brings to life his portraits of Stoic ...

The unstoppable human species

the emergence of homo sapiens in prehistory

In The Unstoppable Species John Shea explains how the earliest humans achieved mastery over all but the most severe, biosphere-level, extinction threats. He explores how and why we humans owe our survival skills to our global geographic range, a diaspora that was achieved during prehistoric ...

Apollonius Rhodius, Herodotus and historiography

This book examines the Argonautica of Apollonius of Rhodes through one aspect of its relationship with other texts. The particular intertextual relationship examined is that with the Histories of Herodotus, focusing on the presence of the latter text in the former in terms of the ...

Emperors and political culture in Cassius Dio's Roman history

The Roman History of Cassius Dio provides one of the most important continuous narratives of the early Roman empire, spanning the inception of the Principate under Augustus to the turbulent years of the Severan Dynasty. It has been a major influence on how scholars have ...

Xenophon of Athens

a Socratic on Sparta

Xenophon of Athens (c. 430-354 BCE) has long been considered an uncritical admirer of Sparta who hero-worships the Spartan King Agesilaus and eulogises Spartan practices in his Lacedaimoniôn Politeia. By examining his own self-descriptions - especially where he portrays himself as conversing with Socrates and falling ...

The cultural history of Augustan Rome

texts, monuments, and topography

This volume wades into the fertile waters of Augustan Rome and the interrelationship of its literature, monuments, and urban landscape. It focused on a pair of questions: how can we productively probe the myriad points of contact between textual and material evidence to write viable ...

The vernacular Aristotle

translation as reception in Medieval and Renaissance Italy

This book explores the ways in which Aristotle's legacy was appropriated and reshaped by vernacular readers in Medieval and Renaissance Italy. It considers translation in a broad sense, looking at commentaries, compendia, rewritings, and abridgments alongside vernacular versions of Aristotle's works. Translation is ...

A concise history of Belgium

The small and densely populated nation of Belgium has played an important role in the history of Europe and other continents, especially Africa. It was a pioneering force in industry, trade, and finance during the Middle Ages, through early modern times and into the nineteenth ...

Essays on ancient Greek literature and culture

Volume I: Greek poetry before 400 BC

In this book one of the world's leading Hellenists brings together his many contributions over four decades to our understanding of early Greek literature, above all of elegiac poetry and its relation to fifth-century prose historiography, but also of early Greek epic, iambic, melic ...