Antonio y Cleopatra

El apasionado romance de Marco Antonio y Cleopatra es una de las grandes historias de amor de todos los tiempos. Él fue el hombre más poderoso del mundo romano durante un tiempo, hasta su derrota por el joven frío y calculador Augusto, que después se ...

La Muerte y el más allá en la Roma antigua

un estudio sobre textos escogidos (ss. III a.C-IV d. C)

¿Qué podría pensar el pueblo romano sobre lo que tenía que venir después de la muerte?; indudablemente partieron de los paisajes del allende de sus antiguos predecesores, los griegos, pero los confirieron un punto de vista propio. Por las líneas de este nuevo trabajo pasan ...

Early roman warrior 753-321 BC

The prototypical 'Roman Legionnaire' often seen on television and in movies is actually the product of nearly a millennium of military development. Far back in the Bronze Age, before the city of Rome existed, a loose collection of independent hamlets eventually formed into a village ...

Alcibiades

athenian playboy, general and traitor

Alcibiades is one of the most famous (or infamous) characters of Classical Greece. A young Athenian aristocrat, he came to prominence during the Peloponnesian War (429-404 BC) between Sparta and Athens. Flamboyant, charismatic (and wealthy), this close associate of Socrates persuaded the Athenians to attempt ...

Roman centurions 753-31 BC

the Kingdom and the Age of Consuls

A perennially popular topic the ancient world continues to yield incredibly rich archaeological finds. Based on years of detailed research, Dr Raffaele D'Amato now presents a new history on the dress and equipment of Roman Centurions from the Roman kingdom to the height of ...

Lost Legion rediscovered

the mystery of the Theban Legion

In AD383, according to Bishop Eucherius of Lyon, flooding caused part of the bank of the River Rhone to collapse, revealing a mass grave. Eucherius identified the bodies as those of legionaries recruited to the Roman army from the Christians of the Theban district in ...

The fall of the western Roman Empire

an archaeological and historical perspective

The decline of the Roman Empire has been a subject of fascination and debate for centuries. In this original new work, Neil Christie draws on numerous sources, interweaving the latest archaeological evidence, to reconstruct the period's landscape and events. In the process, he rethinks ...

Polybius and roman imperialism

This study explores in depth the complex reaction of the Greek historian Polybius to the expansion of Roman power. Although he considered imperialism intrinsically noble, and both admired and supported Roman domination, Polybius also demonstrated a certain intellectual distance from Rome, evident in his application ...

Valorizing the barbarians

enemy speeches in roman historiography

With the growth of postcolonial theory in recent decades, scholarly views of Roman imperialism and colonialism have been evolving and shifting. Much recent discussion of the topic has centred on the ways in which ancient Roman historians consciously or unconsciously denigrated non-Romans. Similarly, contemporary scholars ...

Rethinking Ostia

a spatial enquiry into the urban society of Rome's imperial port-town

Rethinking Ostia presents an archaeological and spatial approach to Roman urbanism, focused on Rome's port city. Following a scaled approach, the book examines different aspects of Ostia's urban landscape, applying Space Syntax's methods for spatial analysis to the urban neighbourhood of one ...

The gods of battle

the thracians at war, 1500 BC-AD 150

Herodotus described the Thracians (who inhabited what is now roughly modern Bulgaria, Romania, the European part of Turkey and northern Greece) as the most numerous nation of all - apart from the Indians - and said that they would be the most powerful of all nations if ...

Entering the Agon

dissent and authority in Homer, historiography and tragedy

This book investigates one of the most characteristic and prominent features of ancient Greek literature - the scene of debate or agon, in which with varying degrees of formality characters square up to each other and engage in a contest of words. Drawing on six case ...

Remembering the Roman People

essays on Late-Republican politics and literature

In the Roman republic, only the People could pass laws, only the People could elect politicians to office, and the very word republica meant 'the People's business'. So why is it always assumed that the republic was an oligarchy? The main reason is that ...

Resurrecting Pompeii

Resurrecting Pompeii provides an in-depth study of a unique site from antiquity with information about a population who all died from the same known cause within a short period of time. Pompeii has been continuously excavated and studied since 1748. Early scholars working in Pompeii ...

Money, trade and trade routes in pre-islamic North Africa

This book expands upon a conference held at the British Museum in 2008 that brought together scholars from differing fields specialising in ancient North Africa. This multidisciplinary approach allowed a number of subjects to be enriched through comparative evidence. The conference concentrated on the area ...

Los griegos: una gran aventura

Historia Universal Asimov

La serie informalmente titulada «Historia Universal Asimov» reúne las obras dedicadas por el gran novelista y divulgador científico a la evolución política, cultural y material de la especie humana. "Los griegos" examina el amplio periodo que se extiende desde los tiempos micénicos hasta la configuración ...

Ancient Phoenicia

an introduction

The Phoenicians played a fundamental role in shaping the history of the Mediterranean. Lauded by Homer as unrivalled navigators and traders, they are known to have founded colonies across the length of North Africa and into Southern Spain, yet as a people they have often ...

The dinamics of ancient empires

state power from Assyria to Byzantium

Transcending ethnic, linguistic, and religious boundaries, early empires shaped thousands of years of world history. Yet despite the global prominence of empire, individual cases are often studied in isolation. This series seeks to change the terms of the debate by promoting cross-cultural, comparative, and transdisciplinary ...

Civilizations of Ancient Iraq

In "Civilizations of Ancient Iraq", Benjamin and Karen Foster tell the fascinating story of ancient Mesopotamia from the earliest settlements ten thousand years ago to the Arab conquest in the seventh century. Accessible and concise, this is the most up-to-date and authoritative book on the ...

Los límites de Ares

vencedores y cencidos en la Grecia antigua

¿Existió algín "código ético" aplicado a la guerra, común a todo el ámbito griego, que tuviese una validez o un prestigio superior al de las leyes de cada Estado?y si era así ¿qué conductas concretas regulaba? ¿Cuál era su efectividad real?. Estas son las ...