El mundo helenístico

Las hazañas militares sin parangón de Alejandro Magno culminaron con la creación de un inmenso imperio que, tras su muerte en 323 a.C., dejó la civilización griega y los territorios conquistados a las puertas de una nueva etapa histórica que duraría tres siglos y ...

La Antigüedad en el fondo antiguo de la Biblioteca de la Universidad de Sevilla

Esta exposición se enmarca en la línea iniciada por la Biblioteca, hace ya unos años, de difundir y facilitar el acceso a la riqueza de su fondo bibliográfico, al tiempo que sirve de apoyo a la tarea investigadora de nuestra comunidad universitaria. Las ciento setenta ...

Que los dioses nos escuchen

comunicación con lo divino en el mundo greco-latino y su pervivencia

SUMARIO: Presentación Semblanza B. Antón Martínez: "Representaciones emblemáticas de la religión romana". O.M. Bernao Fariñas: "Adivinación en el cuento popular: el ejemplo de Blancanieves". M. Blanco Cesteros: "El himno mágico: recursos y estilo de un género coactivo". C. de la Rosa Cubo: "Cum auxilio ...

Que los dioses nos escuchen

comunicación con lo divino en el mundo greco-latino y su pervivencia

SUMARIO: Presentación Semblanza B. Antón Martínez: "Representaciones emblemáticas de la religión romana". O.M. Bernao Fariñas: "Adivinación en el cuento popular: el ejemplo de Blancanieves". M. Blanco Cesteros: "El himno mágico: recursos y estilo de un género coactivo". C. de la Rosa Cubo: "Cum auxilio ...

Archaeology of Asia Minor in Late Antiquity

The city was the fundamental social institution of Greek and Roman culture. More than the sack of Rome, the abandonment of provincial towns throughout the Mediterranean world in late antiquity (fourth-seventh centuries A.D.) marks the beginning of the Middle Ages. This volume examines archaeological ...

City of suppliants

tragedy and the Athenian Empire

After fending off Persia in the fifth century BCE, Athens assumed a leadership position in the Aegean world. Initially it led the Delian League, a military alliance against the Persians, but eventually the league evolved into an empire with Athens in control and exacting tribute ...

Rivers and the power of Ancient Rome

Figuring in myth, religion, law, the military, commerce, and transportation, rivers were at the heart of Rome's increasing exploitation of the environment of the Mediterranean world. In Rivers and the Power of Ancient Rome, Brian Campbell explores the role and influence of rivers and ...

Sport and festival in the Ancient Greek World

First launched at the time of the Athens Olympics, Sport and Festival in the Ancient Greek World has become a classic study in its field. The 15 illustrated chapters of this collection not only explore many aspects of the ancient Olympics and the rich program ...

Dangerous gifts

gender and exchange in Ancient Greece

Deianeira sends her husband Herakles a poisoned robe. Eriphyle trades the life of her husband Amphiaraos for a golden necklace. Atreus's wife Aerope gives away the token of his sovereignty, a lamb with a golden fleece, to his brother Thyestes, who has seduced her ...

Greek sculpture

Sculpture is one of the art forms for which Ancient Greece is renowned, serving as an inspiration to other societies from Ancient Rome to the present day. This book offers an accessible introduction to Ancient Greek sculpture from its beginnings in the eighth century BC ...

Ambush

surprise attack on Ancient Greek warfare

There are two images of warfare that dominate Greek history. The better known is that of Achilles, the Homeric hero skilled in face-to-face combat to the death. He is a warrior who is outraged by deception on the battlefield. The alternative model, equally Greek and ...

Chariots and other wheeled vehicles in Italy before the Roman Empire

his study presents evidence for transport by wheeled vehicle in Italy before the Roman Imperial period, the beginning of which is often thought to be marked by Augustus's conquest of Egypt in 30 BC. Three categories of wheeled vehicle documented for the period are ...

Constantine The Great

Warlord of Rome

Constantine the Great is a titanic figure in Roman, and indeed world history. Most famed for making Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire (and thus ensuring its survival and spread), and for moving the seat of imperial rule to 'New Rome' (Constantinople), he ...

Historia de Roma

Tomo II: El Imperio Romano

Slaves tell tales

and other episodes in the politics of popular culture in Ancient Greece

Most studies of ancient Greek politics focus on formal institutions such as the political assembly and the law courts, and overlook the role that informal social practices played in the regulation of the political order. Sara Forsdyke argues, by contrast, that various forms of popular ...

Spartan warrior

735-331 B.C.

Immortalized through their exploits at the battle of Thermopylae under the legendary Leonidas, as well as countless other victories throughout the classical period, the Spartans were some of the best trained, organized and most feared warriors of the ancient world. The small state of Sparta ...

L'affirmation de la puissance romaine en judeé

De la conquête de Pompée au temps de Cicéron à l'écrasement de la révolte de Bar Kokhba sous Hadrien, la Judée est restée un sujet de préoccupation pour Rome. Il s'agissait pourtant d'un territoire relativement mineur aux confins de l'empire. II ...

Flavio Josefo

un historiador judío de la época de Jesús y los primeros cristianos

Flavio Josefo es uno de los personajes más fascinantes de la Antigüedad. Nacido en Judea, en el siglo I d.C., recibió una amplia formación tanto judía como grecorromana. Durante los años que precedieron al enfrentamiento con Roma, desplegó una intensa actividad diplomática y política ...

The sword of Rome

a biography of Marcus Claudius Marcellus

Marcellus military exploits were largely unmatched by any other aristocrat of Roman Middle Republic. As a young soldier in the First Punic War, he won a reputation for his skill in single combat. In his first consulship, he earned a triumph for defeating a Gallic ...

The Oxford Classical Dictionary

'offers not only that breakfast for the mind we keep hearing about, but lunch, tea, dinner, supper and non-stop snacks...offers a cornucopia of accurate and succinct knowledge that would be hard to equal' (Peter Green, Washington Times about the third edition). For over sixty ...