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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 ...

Ancient Greek lists

catalogue and inventory across genres

Ancient Greek Lists brings together catalogic texts from a variety of genres, arguing that the list form was the ancient mode of expressing value through text. Ranging from Homer's Catalogue of Ships through Attic comedy and Hellenistic poetry to temple inventories, the book draws ...

The Byzantine Hellene

the life of Emperor Theodore Laskaris and Byzantium in the thirteenth century

This book tells the extraordinary story of Theodore II Laskaris, an emperor who ruled over the Byzantine state of Nicaea established in Asia Minor after the fall of Constantinople to the crusaders in 1204. Theodore Laskaris was a man of literary talent and keen intellect ...

Serving Athena

the festival of the Panathenaia and the construction of Athenian identities

In ancient Athens, the Panathenaia was the most important festival and was celebrated in honour of Athena from the middle of the sixth century BC until the end of the fourth century AD. This in-depth study examines how this all-Athenian celebration was an occasion for ...

Byzantium, Venice and the Medieval Adriatic

spheres of maritime power and influence, c. 700-1453

The Adriatic has long occupied a liminal position between different cultures, languages and faiths. This book offers the first synthesis of its history between the seventh and the mid-fifteenth century, a period coinciding with the existence of the Byzantine Empire which, as heir to the ...

Greek memories

theories and practices

Greek Memories aims to identify and examine the central concepts underlying the theories and practices of memory in the Greek world, from the archaic period to Late Antiquity, across all the main literary genres, and to trace some fundamental changes in these theories and practices ...

We, the King

creating royal legislation in the sixteenth-century Spanish New World

We, the King challenges the dominant top-down interpretation of the Spanish Empire and its monarchs' decrees in the New World, revealing how ordinary subjects had much more say in government and law-making than previously acknowledged. During the viceregal period spanning the post-1492 conquest until 1598 ...

A History of the Roman Equestrian Order

In the Roman social hierarchy, the equestrian order stood second only to the senatorial aristocracy in status and prestige. Throughout more than a thousand years of Roman history, equestrians played prominent roles in the Roman government, army, and society as cavalrymen, officers, businessmen, tax collectors ...

Cartografía de la desaparición forzada en Andalucía

1936 - 1951

La Cartografía de la Desaparición Forzada en Andalucía es un trabajo colectivo que visibiliza y documenta, no sólo las 798 fosas compiladas (89 más que en los mapas 'oficiales') sino que elige enfoques inéditos en el análisis de este crimen de lesa humanidad: colonial, de ...

El arte de tener razón

Arthur Schopenhauer descubre un enorme hiato, casi un abismo, entre aquello a lo que los hombres pueden aspirar, ni más ni menos que la verdad en un sentido que rememora al viejo Platón, y lo que en su vida diaria conduce sus conversaciones y disputas ...

Sobre el destino

Marco Aurelio condensa su pensamiento en frases serenas, dictadas por un ánimo pausado, que descubren en la convergencia con el cosmos el camino que conduce a la felicidad de la que es capaz el ser humano. Si algo demuestra esta convergencia, por la que el ...