The literature of ancient Sumer

Sumerian is the oldest written language of ancient Iraq, first written down some 5000 years ago. Its literature, encompassing narrative myths, lyrical hymns, proverbs, and love poetry, provides a stimulating insight into the world's first urban civilization. Written in clear, accessible English, these translations ...

The Persians

The Persians is a succinct narrative of Iranian history from the time of Cyrus the Great in 558 bc to the present day. The book traces events from the rise of the Persian empire, through competition with Rome and conquest by the Arabs, through to ...

Los matemáticos de Babilonia

Hace seis mil años, cuando en Egipto #donde aún no había ni faraones, ni pirámides ni jeroglíficos# y en el resto del mundo los hombres vivían las últimas épocas de la prehistoria, un pueblo de origen desconocido se instaló en las inmediaciones del golfo Pérsico ...

The ancient Olimpics

The word 'athletics' is derived from the Greek verb 'to struggle/suffer for a prize'. After reading this book, no one will see the Olympics as a graceful display of Greek beauty again, but as war by other means. Nigel Spivey paints a portrait of ...

Hipatia de Alejandría

La catedrática de historia romana antigua en la Universidad Jagelónica de Cracovia, María Dzielska, nos invita en este libro a dar un salto en el espacio y en el tiempo. Dzielska nos retrotrae a la Alejandría de los día de Hipatia, una matemática brillante, neoplatónica ...

Ce qui fait la Grèce

Séminaires 1982-1983 (La création Humaine, 2).T. 1: D'Homère à Héraclite

Las experiencias de Tiresias

(lo masculino y lo femenino en el mundo griego)

Al principio, los historiadores creyeron en el «milagro griego», espejismo de una civilización de luz implacable, filosofía abstracta, figuración geométrica. Más tarde, descubrieron una Grecia de contrastes, trabajada por la polaridad, por las oposiciones entre cultura y naturaleza, entre Ciudad y barbarie, entre varón-ciudadano y ...

Money and the early greek mind

homer, philosophy, tragedy

How were the Greeks of the sixth century BC able to invent philosophy and tragedy? In this book Richard Seaford argues that a large part of the answer can be found in another momentous development, the invention and rapid spread of coinage which produced the ...

Thermopylae

the battle for the West

"A gripping story." -- Economist . An impressively accessible narrative depicting the three-day battle for the pass at Thermopylae (the Hot Gates)--a critical contest in Xerxes's massive invasion of Greece. The bloody stand made there by Leonidas and his small Spartan army in 480 B ...

Histoire grecque

Résumer en 500 pages une histoire aussi prestigieuse d'un pays béni des dieux, d'une civilisation à laquelle notre monde occidental doit tant, semble une gageure. Et pourtant ce manuel publié pour la première fois en 1995 et réédité déjà 4 fois est une ...

Ancient greek religion

Ancient Greek Religion provides an introduction to the fundamental beliefs and practices and the major deities of Greek religion. While the focus is on Athens in the classical period, the book includes detailed discussion of Greek gods and heroes, myth and cult from the archaic ...

Spectacular power in the Greek and Roman city

In the great cities of Greece and Rome, politicians and kings sought to be seen as celebrities. They tried to appear wondrous and exciting to citizens and subjects. This study shows some of their methods and so reveals the importance of political advertisement and spectacle ...

The greco-roman East

politics, culture, society

This collection of papers illustrates how our picture of the Greco-Roman East has changed over the last two decades as a result of new finds, new methods, and new interests on the part of classical scholars. The chapters, by a distinguished international cast of contributors ...

Inventing superstition

from the hippocratics to the christians

Provides a detailed genealogy of the idea of superstition, its history over eight centuries, from classical Greece to the Christianized Roman Empire of the 4th Century AD. This work demonstrates that the concept of superstition was invented by Greek intellectuals to condemn popular religious practices ...

Babylon, Memphis, Persepolis

eastern contexts of greek culture

At the distant beginning of Western civilization, according to European tradition, Greece stands as an insular, isolated, near-miracle of burgeoning culture. This book traverses the ancient world's three great centers of cultural exchange--Babylonian Nineveh, Egyptian Memphis, and Iranian Persepolis--to situate classical Greece in its ...

Classics in the history of Greek mathematics

This volume includes a selection of 19 classic papers on the history of Greek mathematics that were published during the 20th century and affected significantly the state of the art of this field. It is divided into six thematic sections and covers all the major ...

Troya

Troya, Homero , Schliemann: desde hace más de 130 años esta triada puede considerarse probablemente como el más poderoso de los mitos del Occidente europeo. La arqueología se muestra aquí desde su cara aventurera. Y las más recientes excavaciones, realizadas bajo la dirección de Manfred Korfmann ...

Visiones mítico-religiosas del padre en la Antigüedad Clásica

Emperor worship and roman religion

This is the first study of emperor worship among the Romans themselves, in Rome and its heartland Italy. It argues that emperor worship was indeed perfectly in keeping with Roman religious tradition, which has been generally misunderstood by a posterity imbued with radically different notions ...

Spectacular power in the Greek and Roman city

In the great cities of Greece and Rome, politicians and kings sought to be seen as celebrities. They tried to appear wondrous and exciting to citizens and subjects. This study shows some of their methods and so reveals the importance of political advertisement and spectacle ...