Stone tools

and the evolution of human congnition

Stone tools are the most durable and common type of archaeological remain and one of the most important sources of information about behaviours of early hominins. This book develops methods for examining questions of cognition, demonstrating the progression of mental capabilities from early hominins to ...

Los Diádocos: guerra fratricida por el Imperio de Alejandro

(Revista Desperta Ferro. Antigua y Medieval, Nº 8, año 2011)

Índice de artículos: Tiempos convulsos: de la muerte de Alejandro a Corupedio, por Ania Myslowska, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. La legitimación de los sucesores, por José Pascual, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. La infanteria de los sucesores: Macedonios e iranios al servicio de los Diádocos, por ...

A history trust in Ancient Greece

An enormous amount of literature exists on Greek law, economics, and political philosophy. Yet no one has written a history of trust, one of the most fundamental aspects of social and economic interaction in the ancient world. In this fresh look at antiquity, Steven Johnstone ...

The Battle of Marathon

How did the city-state of Athens defeat the invaders from Persia, the first world empire, on the plain of Marathon in 490 BCE? Scholars skeptical of our earliest surviving source, Herodotus, have produced one ingenious theory after another. In this stimulating new book, bound to ...

Alexander the Great

myth, genesis and sexuality

What are ancient texts saying to us when they describe Alexander the Great's romantic relationship with his wife Barsine, or comment on his homosexual relationship with Hephaestion? What did it mean when the ancient writers told that Alexander had been sired by a thunderbolt ...

The romans and their world

a short introduction

This one-volume history of the Roman world begins with the early years of the republic and carries the story nearly a thousand years forward to 476, when Romulus Augustus, the last Western Roman emperor, was deposed. Brian Campbell, respected scholar and teacher, presents a fascinating ...

This seat of mars

war and the British Isles 1485-1746

Shakespeare was not exaggerating when he defined being a soldier as one of the seven ages of man. Over the early modern period, many millions of young men from the four corners of the present United Kingdom went to war, often - and most bloodily - against ...

A revolution of the mind

radical enlightenment and the intellectual origins of modern Democracy

Democracy, free thought and expression, religious tolerance, individual liberty, political self-determination of people, sexual and racial equality - these values have firmly entered the mainstream in the decades since they were enshrined in the 1948 U.N. Declaration of Human Rights. But if these ideals no ...

Mary I

england's catholic Queen

The life story of Mary I - daughter of Henry VIII and his Spanish wife, Catherine of Aragon - is often distilled to a few dramatic episodes: her victory over the attempted coup by Lady Jane Grey, the imprisonment of her half-sister Elizabeth, the burning of Protestants ...

Hitler's hangman

the life of Heydrich

Reinhard Heydrich is widely recognized as one of the great iconic villains of the twentieth century, an appalling figure even within the context of the Nazi leadership. Chief of the Nazi Criminal Police, the SS Security Service, and the Gestapo, ruthless overlord of Nazi-occupied Bohemia ...

Assured victory

how "Stalin the Great" won the war, but lost the peace

This is a detailed reexamination of historical facts indicates that Stalin could deserve to be regarded as a 'great leader.' Yet Stalin clearly failed as his nation's leader in a post-World War II milieu, where he delivered the Cold War instead of rapid progress ...

Los cultos orientales en la Dacia Romana

formas de difusión, integración y control social e ideológico

Vidas paralelas

la banca y el riesgo a través de la Historia

Este libro está ideado para proporcionar un viaje por la historia de la banca y la parte de la ciencia que le ha dado cobertura a su gestión. Sin duda el tener cierta formación ayudará a la lectura pero la intención al escribirlo ha sido ...

The Mediterranean World in Late Antiquity AD 395-700

This thoroughly revised and expanded edition of The Mediterranean World in Late Antiquity, now covering the period 395-700 AD, provides both a detailed introduction to late antiquity and a direct challenge to conventional views of the end of the Roman empire. Leading scholar Averil Cameron ...

Cleopatra

la última reina de Egipto

Para los egipcios, fue una diosa viviente. Para los macedonios, una reina. Los romanos la consideraban un “ser monstruoso”. Pascal escribió que la forma de su nariz cambió la historia del mundo. Shakespeare la retrató como un icono del amor trágico. Elizabeth Taylor, Catherine Zeta ...

The crimes of elagabalus

the life and legacy of Rome's decadent Boy Emperor

Elagabalus is one of the most notorious of Rome's 'bad emperors': a sexually-depraved and eccentric hedonist who in his short and riotous reign made unprecedented changes to Roman state religion and defied all taboos. An oriental boy-priest from Syria - aged just fourteen when he ...

Dionisios

raíz de la vida indestructible

Ningún otro dios de los griegos se encuentra tan presente como Dionisios en los monumentos y la naturaleza de Grecia e Italia, en la tradición sensible que se ha conservado de la antigüedad. Puede hablarse de una omnipresencia del elemento dionisiaco. De las dos creaciones ...

Eleanor of Aquitaine

Eleanor of Aquitaine's extraordinary life seems more likely to be found in the pages of fiction. Proud daughter of a distinguished French dynasty, she married the king of France, Louis VII, then the king of England, Henry II, and gave birth to two sons ...

The power game in Byzantium

Antonina and the empress Theodora

This title presents an original portrayal of Justinian's reign, its politics and theological disputes, focusing on the lives of two extraordinary women who wielded power and influence. A fascinating exploration of the corridors of power in Byzantium of the time of Justinian (527-565), the ...

Deep history

the architecture of past and present

Humans have always been interested in their origins, but historians have been reluctant to write about the long stretches of time before the invention of writing. In fact, the deep past was left out of most historical writing almost as soon as it was discovered ...