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 ...

Los filisteos

la migración egea a finales de la Edad del Bronce

En el sur del Levante mediterráneo y en Palestina la arqueología se ha ocupado durante mucho tiempo por excavar e interpretar las estructuras de prestigio, como palacios, templos y fortificaciones. Uno de los temas bíblicos que ha suscitado más debates y publicaciones es el de ...

Aetius

Attila's nemesis

In AD 453 Attila, with a huge force composed of Huns, allies and vassals drawn from his already-vast empire, was rampaging westward across Gaul (essentially modern France), then still nominally part of the Western Roman Empire. Laying siege to Orleans, he was only a few ...

El legado de Hatshepsut

ciencia, romance, armas biológicas e integrismo islámico en el Egipto actual

El Cairo, octubre 2006. Manuel Gálvez, arqueólogo español del Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, trabaja a las órdenes del profesor Zahi Hawass, en la identificación de la momia de la reina faraón Hatshepsut. El español, descubre y guarda para sí, los restos de unos cangrejos ...

Egipto

el mundo de los faraones

Este libro es un caleidoscopio del antiguo Egipto. Aborda aspectos de la vida cotidiana como la vivienda o los hábitos gastronómicos, la escritura y el idioma, así como la religión o la administración del Estado, la arquitectura y las artes. Ante nuestros ojos se despliega ...

Destino solar

ensueños y mitos del Egipto faraónico

Bajo la línea conductora de un viaje por el Nilo, este libro trasciende los límites de un ensayo histórico sobre el Egipto faraónico. Destino Solar nos propone un descenso al abismo de los sueños, al olvidado imaginario colectivo, cuando el hombre comenzaba a expresar sus ...

Reconstructing the slave

the image of the slave in Ancient Greece

Although the importance of slavery to Greek society has long been recognised, most studies have primarily drawn upon representations of slaves as sources of evidence for the historical institution, while there has been little consideration of what the representations can tell us about how the ...

Historia de la Antigua Roma

Sumario: Unidad didáctica 1. Roma y su entorno geográfico. Protohistoria italiana, génesis de una civilización Unidad didáctica 2. Roma, a la conquista del Mediterráneo. Doscientos años de un imperio en construcción Unidad didáctica 3. Roma, del final de la república al principio del imperio. Guerras ...