Amarna

la ciudad de Ajenatón y Nefertiti

Este libro es necesario, útil y relevante...ya que busca presentarnos una síntesis detallada, sensata, bien organizada, actualizada y por lo general sobria que describe lo que sabemos sobre la ciudad, sobre la capital de Ajenatón mandó construir de la nada, sobre su urbanismo y ...

Alexander's veterans and the early wars of the successors

From antiquity until now, most writers who have chronicled the events following the death of Alexander the Great have viewed this history through the careers, ambitions, and perspectives of Alexander's elite successors. Few historians have probed the experiences and attitudes of the ordinary soldiers ...

Mothering and motherhood in Ancient Greece and Rome

Motherhood played a central role in ancient Greece and Rome, despite the virtual absence of female participation in the public spheres of life. Mothers could wield enormous influence as the reproductive bodies of society and, in many cases, of culture. Yet motherhood and acts of ...

Twilight of the hellenistic world

This book recounts and analyzes the complex series of conflicts between the Hellenistic Successor states in the generation before the Romans intervened in, and ultimately conquered, the region. This period is rarely treated in any depth, usually warranting little more than a summary as context ...

A storm of spears

understanding the Greek Hoplite at war

The backbone of classical Greek armies was the phalanx of heavily armoured spearmen, or hoplites. These were the soldiers that defied the might of Persia at Marathon, Thermopylae and Plataea and, more often, fought each other in the countless battles of the Greek city-states. For ...

Everyday writing in the graeco-roman east

Most of the everyday writing from the ancient world - that is, informal writing not intended for a long life or wide public distribution - has perished. Reinterpreting the silences and blanks of the historical record, leading papyrologist Roger S. Bagnall convincingly argues that ordinary people - from ...

La idea del alma y el Más Allá en los cultos orientales durante el Imperio Romano

En el presente estudio el autor analiza la idea del alma que tuvieron los diferentes credos de las llamadas religiones mistéricas u orientales durante el Imperio romano, especialmente en el momento de la muerte del individuo, y el viaje y supervivencia del espíritu del difunto ...

Septimio Severo

el emperador africano

Septimio Severo, descendiente de colonos fenicios asentados en Tripolitania, reinó entre los años 193 y 211 d. C., y su gobierno constituye un punto de inflexión en la historia de Roma. Birley indaga primero los orígenes de Septimio, quien procedía de la ciudad africana Leptis ...

Mothering and motherhood in Ancient Greece and Rome

Motherhood played a central role in ancient Greece and Rome, despite the virtual absence of female participation in the public spheres of life. Mothers could wield enormous influence as the reproductive bodies of society and, in many cases, of culture. Yet motherhood and acts of ...

La crisis de la República Romana

crónica de unos años decisivos (60-49 a.C.)

ÍNDICE: Prefacio Prólogo Capítulo I. El marco general de la crisis republicana Capítulo II. De la alianza tripartita (Triunvirato, 60 a.C.) al tribunazo de Clodio (58 a.C) Capítulo III. Los años porteriores hasta la "conferencia" de Luca (55 a.C.) Capítulo IV. La ...

Rome on the Euphrates

the story of a frontier

When Roman legions marched into Asia Minor in 200BC, their plan was to secure a buffer zone between the Mediterranean, which they virtually owned, and the area beyond, which they sought to isolate rather than control. Along the long frontier of the Euphrates in Turkey ...

The late Medieval English Church

vitality and vulnerability before the break with Rome

The later medieval English church is invariably viewed through the lens of the Reformation that transformed it. But in this bold and provocative book historian G. W. Bernard examines it on its own terms, revealing a church with vibrant faith and great energy. Bernard looks ...

Everyday writing in the graeco-roman east

Most of the everyday writing from the ancient world - that is, informal writing not intended for a long life or wide public distribution - has perished. Reinterpreting the silences and blanks of the historical record, leading papyrologist Roger S. Bagnall convincingly argues that ordinary people - from ...

Imperial Rome, AD 284 to 363

the new empire

A distinct perspective on the momentous religious change in the region Diocletian (284-305) and his principal successor, Constantine (306-337), would rule the Roman world for over half a century and Constantine's sons would build on their legacy. Administrative reform encouraged the rise of a ...

Rome and the Mediterranean, 290 to 146 BC

the Imperial Republic

Rome's stunning rise to mastery of the ancient Mediterranean Nathan Rosenstein charts Rome's incredible journey and command of the Mediterranean over the course of the third and second centuries BC. He describes the Republic's great wars - against Pyrrhus, Carthage and Hannibal, and ...

De lo humano y lo divino en la literatura medieval

santos, ángeles y demonios

Los ángeles revolotean por los textos literarios medievales sin cesar. Son numerosas las escenas de seres angélicos, portadores de mensajes divinos, que ayudan a los mortales en trances de dificultad o acompañan a las almas en su viaje al cielo, función que se configura también ...

European weapons and armour

from the Renaissance to the Industrial Revolution

A treasury of information based on solid scholarship, anyone seeking a factual and vivid account of the story of arms from the Renaissance period to the Industrial Revolution will welcome this book. The author chooses as his starting-point the invasion of Italy by France in ...

Greece, the hidden centuries

turkish rule from the fall of Constantinople to Greek Independence

For almost four hundred years, between the fall of Constantinople in 1453 and the Greek War of Independence, the history of Greece is shrouded in mystery: distorted by Greek writers and largely neglected by others. What was life really like for the Greeks under Ottoman ...

La historia y los días

Memorias

No se trata de unos recuerdos fríos e intelectualizados, sino de un relato que transcurre con humor por todos los trances de la vida. Ahí están los antecedentes vívidos de los antepasados en La Serena tradicional, en el Angol que salía de la vida fronteriza ...

Historia de la pobreza en EE.UU.

Premio Michael Harrington de Ensayo. Esta obra del profesor Pimpare, apoyada en reveladores documentos, estadísticas y testimonios, revela como la potencia hegemónica mundial, ejemplo de progreso y desarrollo económico, esconde una dramática situación de exclusión social. Millones de ciudadanos de EE.UU. viven en la ...