Breve historia de la Roma Antigua

El imperio romano duró diez siglos, un fenómeno excepcional en la historia de la humanidad. Y excepcional fue también su capital, Roma, una pequeña ciudad que, tras desaparecer casi cien veces en ese período, logró derrotar a sus vecinos en el Lazio y se adueñó ...

El arte en el Antiguo Egipto

claves para su interpretación

ÍNDICE: Introducción 1. La aspectiva 2. Sistema aspectívico en lo antropomorfo 3. Adaptaciones y transgresiones en lo antropomorfo 4. La proporción de lo humano 5. Perspectiva dimensional narrativa o de acción 6. Los animales y las plantas 7. Combinación de naturalezas divinas o sincretismo aspectívico ...

The Cambridge history of religions in the Ancient World

I. From the Bronze Age to the Hellenistic Age

The Cambridge History of Religions in the Ancient World provides a comprehensive examination of the history of the religions of the ancient Near East and Mediterranean world. The essays in these volumes have a broad reach, covering the ancient Near East and Mediterranean, and extending ...

Alejandro Magno

Rey de Macedonia y de Asia

La historia de Alejandro Magno, que en el momento de su temprana muerte había conquistado un imperio nunca antes conocido, ha fascinado a gentes de todas las épocas, desde sus contemporáneos hasta la época actual. Alabado por unos y denostado por otros al proyectar en ...

Ancient Greece

from Prehistoric to Hellenistic Times

In this compact yet comprehensive history of ancient Greece, Thomas R. Martin brings alive Greek civilization from its Stone Age roots to the fourth century B.C.E.. Focusing on the development of the Greek city-state and the society, culture, and architecture of Athens in ...

Roman disasters

Roman Disasters looks at how the Romans coped with, thought about, and used disasters for their own ends. Rome has been famous throughout history for its great triumphs. Yet Rome also suffered colossal disasters. From the battle of Cannae, where fifty thousand men fell in ...

Cannas 216 a.C.

los hispanos de Aníbal masacran a las legiones romanas

Pocas batallas hay en la historia de la humanidad con un nombre tan evocador como la de Cannas. ¿Quién no ha oido hablar de una de las mayores derrotas sufridas jamás por las legiones romanas?. Se han dedicado cientos, quizá miles, de páginas al análisis ...

Historia de Roma

desde los orígenes hasta la caída del Imperio

Entre los muchos libros sobre historia de Roma que se publican en la actualidad faltaba, sin duda, una síntesis que pusiera al alcance del público no especializado una narración global de los cerca de mil años que transcurrieron entre los primeros años de la República ...

En el final de Roma (ca. 455-480)

La solución intelectual

El autor de este libro se pregunta hasta qué punto la idea del final de Roma como imperio en Occidente ha eclipsado al estudio de los cambios que se estaban produciendo en la base de la sociedad y en su propia cúspide. Y, para responder ...

Commerce and colonization in the Ancient Near East

In this analysis of the first colonialisms in history, the eastern roots of the Phoenician colonial system in the first millennium BC are traced and the metropolis of Tyre is established as the final link in a long chain of colonial experiences in the ancient ...

The Roman West, AD 200-500

an archaeological study

This book describes and analyses the development of the Roman West from Gibraltar to the Rhine, using primarily the extensive body of published archaeological evidence rather than the textual evidence underlying most other studies. It situates this development within a longer-term process of change, proposing ...

Peasant and empire in Christian North Africa

This remarkable history foregrounds the most marginal sector of the Roman population, the provincial peasantry, to paint a fascinating new picture of peasant society. Making use of detailed archaeological and textual evidence, Leslie Dossey examines the peasantry in relation to the upper classes in Christian ...

Pythagoras and the Early Pythagoreans

Pythagoras (c. 570 - c. 495 BC), arguably the most influential thinker among the Presocratics, emerges in ancient tradition as a wise teacher, an outstanding mathematician, an influential politician, and as a religious and ethical reformer. He claimed to possess supernatural powers and was the kind ...

Roman legionary AD 69-161

Between AD 69 and 161 the composition of the Roman legions was transformed. Italians were almost entirely replaced by provincial recruits, men for whom Latin was at best a second language, and yet the 'Roman-ness' of these Germans, Pannonians, Spaniards, Africans and Syrians, fostered in ...

Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism

The rise of the modern absolutist monarchies in Europe constitutes in many ways the birth of the modern historical epoch. Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism, the companion volume to Perry Anderson's Lineages of the Absolutist State, is a sustained exercise in historical sociology to ...

The mystery of the Hanging Garden of Babylon

an elusive world wonder traced

The Mystery of the Hanging Garden of Babylon is an exciting story of detection involving legends, expert decipherment of ancient texts, and a vivid description of a little-known civilization. Recognised in ancient times as one of the Seven Wonders of the World, the legendary Hanging ...

Los sofistas

testimonios y fragmentos

Aunque no constituyeron propiamente una escuela filosófica y su consideración suele verse acompañada de prejuicios desde antiguo, los sofistas supusieron un eslabón decisivo en la constitución de la filosofía griega. Nacidos al calor del auge de la democracia en Atenas, fueron ellos los que pusieron ...

Historia de la guerra del Peloponeso

Tucídides (c.460-c.395 a.C.), miembro de una familia aristocrática ateniense, participó personalmente en la llamada guerra del Peloponeso, que enfrentó a atenienses y espartanos entre el 431 y el 404 antes de Cristo. Sobre la base de su propia experiencia, se propuso escribir ...

Constantine the Emperor

This year Christians worldwide will celebrate the 1700th anniversary of Constantine's conversion and victory at the Battle of the Milvian Bridge. No Roman emperor had a greater impact on the modern world than did Constantine. The reason is not simply that he converted to ...

The Huns, Rome and the birth of Europe

The Huns have often been treated as primitive barbarians with no advanced political organisation. Their place of origin was the so-called 'backward steppe'. It has been argued that whatever political organisation they achieved they owed to the 'civilizing influence' of the Germanic peoples they encountered ...