The importance of being gorgeous

gender and Christian imperial rule in late antiquity

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. In this book, Susanna Elm radically changes our understanding of imperial rule in the later Roman Empire. As ...

Ancient Mediterranean incarceration

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. This book examines spaces, practices, and ideologies of incarceration in the ancient Mediterranean basin from 300 BCE to ...

Julio Mangas Manjarrés

Opera electa

Julio Mangas Manjarrés, nacio el 3 de diciembre de 1940 en Alaejos-Valladolid y falleció el 21 de octubre de 2022 en Salamanca, fue uno de los más destacados historiadores de la Antigüedad. Su dedicación e intensa labor a la universidad española abarca más de medio ...

The folds of Olympus

mountains in ancient Greek and Roman culture

A cultural and literary history of mountains in classical antiquity The mountainous character of the Mediterranean was a crucial factor in the history of the ancient Greek and Roman world. The Folds of Olympus is a cultural and literary history that explores the important role ...

Ancient wisdom for polarized times

why humanity needs Herodotus, the man who invented history

How the wisdom of Herodotus can fortify us against political falsehoods and violent extremism Nearly 2,500 years ago, the Greek writer Herodotus introduced the concept of objective truth derived from factual investigation and empirical deduction. Writing just before the start of the catastrophic Peloponnesian ...

Gladiadores, bestias y condenados

Las crónicas brutales del Coliseo

Los testimonios de los espectáculos que durante siete siglos estremecieron a Roma. Salimos del cine de ver Gladiator 2 y la duda nos asalta a todos ¿eran realmente así los espectáculos del Coliseo? El único modo que tenemos de saberlo es leyendo las crónicas de ...

Las Aras del César

Homenaje a Santiago Montero

Concebido como humilde tributo a la trayectoria investigadora del profesor Santiago Montero Herrero, el presente volumen recopila una selección de sus mejores trabajos, aquellos que, en opinión de quienes coordinan el volumen tuvieron una mayor repercusión en su área de conocimiento. Si bien su obra ...

Intellectual property

learned slaves and educated freedmen in republican Rome

The first in-depth account of the lives and careers of educated slaves and freedmen in ancient Rome Slaves and freedmen played an important yet understudied role in the literary culture of the Roman Republic. Though their work went largely uncredited, they fulfilled vital roles as ...

Pox romana

the plague that shook the Roman world

A wide-ranging and dramatic account of the Antonine plague, the mysterious disease that struck the Roman Empire at its pinnacle In the middle of the second century AD, Rome was at its prosperous and powerful apex. The emperor Marcus Aurelius reigned over a vast territory ...

The folds of Olympus

mountains in ancient Greek and Roman culture

A cultural and literary history of mountains in classical antiquity The mountainous character of the Mediterranean was a crucial factor in the history of the ancient Greek and Roman world. The Folds of Olympus is a cultural and literary history that explores the important role ...

Surviving Rome

the economic lives of the ninety percent

A radical revision-and worker's-eye view-of everything we thought we knew about the ancient Roman economy The story of ancient Rome is predominantly one of great men with great fortunes. Surviving Rome unearths another history, one of ordinary Romans, who worked with their hands and ...

En los confines del mundo

Una nueva historia de la Antigüedad

¿Cómo era vivir en los márgenes de los antiguos imperios, en los límites del mundo conocido? Muchos griegos y romanos pensaban que las fronteras de su mundo marcaban el final de la civilización. Gracias a las excavaciones arqueológicas, hoy sabemos que en las fronteras de ...

The Libyan pharaohs of Egypt

their lives and afterlives

A comprehensive account of the Libyan pharaohs of Egypt, who ruled from the tenth through the seventh centuries BC, accessibly written by renowned Egyptologist Aidan Dodson During the tenth through the seventh centuries BC, Egypt was ruled by a series of pharaohs of Libyan ancestry ...

Eso no estaba en mi libro de Julio César

¿Sabías que Julio César entró en Sevilla con la cabeza de uno de los hijos de Pompeyo, derrotado en la decisiva batalla de Munda? ¿Que plantó un árbol, un plátano de sombra, en Córdoba? ¿Que Pompeyo fue su yerno a pesar de ser mayor que ...

Los cuatro grandes historiadores latinos

César - Salustio - Tito Livio - Tácito

La compilación de Los cuatro grandes historiadores latinos: César, Salustio, Tito Livio y Tácito fue una obra de D. Nisard y traducida al español por Luis de Terán en 1920 para La España moderna. La obra recorre las carreras de los principales historiadores de la ...

Entre la tierra y el cielo

proyecciones temáticas de la guerra en textos apocalípticos siríacos del siglo VII d.C.

El propósito fundamental de este libro es acercar al lector al conocimiento de los esquemas de pensamiento de los autores cristianos siríacos del siglo VII d. C. que, en vísperas de, durante y tras la expansión de los árabes en el Oriente Próximo, escribieron o ...

The fall of Egypt and the rise of Rome

a history of the Ptolemies

A compelling history of the Ptolemies, the decline of Egypt, and the rising power of the Roman Empire The Ptolemaic era, Egypt's last and one of its longest dynasties, was in many ways a gilded age. Its early rulers restored and even expanded Egyptian ...

Ancient civilizations of Afghanistan

from the earliest times to the Mongol conquest

Afghanistan, at the meeting place of the Indian subcontinent, Middle East and Central Asia, holds a key place in the spread of ancient civilizations. Its remarkable cultural heritage includes the Bronze Age Helmand civilization, the Greek kingdom of Bactria, the Kushan Empire and the Ghaznavid ...

Polemos

La guerra in Grecia

Nella civiltà delle poleis, ogni generazione mandava soldati a combattere e morire; ogni generazione era testimone di devastazioni e saccheggi. Insomma, la guerra per i Greci faceva parte della ‘normalità’ della vita. È naturale, dunque, che fosse una presenza forte del discorso pubblico, ma anche ...

Scipio Africanus

the first imperator

Scipio Africanus (235-183 BC) commanded his first army at the age of 25, led a daring invasion in Africa to personally defeat Hannibal and secured Rome's dominance over the Mediterranean. In ten years of command he never lost a battle, employing bold strategies to ...