Ancient Greece

social structure and evolution

This book examines the development of ancient Greek civilization through a path-breaking application of social scientific theories. David B. Small charts the rise of the Minoan and Mycenaean civilizations and the unique characteristics of the later classical Greeks through the lens of ancient social structure ...

A companion to Greco-Roman and Late Antique Egypt

An authoritative and multidisciplinary Companion to Egypt during the Greco-Roman and Late Antique period With contributions from noted authorities in the field, A Companion to Greco-Roman and Late Antique Egypt offers a comprehensive resource that covers almost 1000 years of Egyptian history, starting with the ...

A companion to Greco-Roman and Late Antique Egypt

An authoritative and multidisciplinary Companion to Egypt during the Greco-Roman and Late Antique period With contributions from noted authorities in the field, A Companion to Greco-Roman and Late Antique Egypt offers a comprehensive resource that covers almost 1000 years of Egyptian history, starting with the ...

A companion to Greco-Roman and Late Antique Egypt

An authoritative and multidisciplinary Companion to Egypt during the Greco-Roman and Late Antique period With contributions from noted authorities in the field, A Companion to Greco-Roman and Late Antique Egypt offers a comprehensive resource that covers almost 1000 years of Egyptian history, starting with the ...

Águilas caídas

grandes derrotas de las legiones romanas

Nadie discute que las legiones romanas fueron una de las unidades militares más capaces de la Historia, siendo esenciales para defender, crear, afianzar y expandir el Imperio romano. Pero como no existe ejército imbatible, también protagonizaron sonados descalabros bélicos que pusieron a esa gran civilización ...

Cannae

Hannibal's greatest victory

From an award-winning historian of ancient Rome, the definitive history of Rome's most devastating defeat August 2, 216 BC was one of history's bloodiest single days of fighting. On a narrow plain near the Southern Italian town of Cannae, despite outnumbering their opponents ...

La caída de Cartago

las Guerra Púnicas 265-146 a.C.

Las Guerras Púnicas son con toda probabilidad el mayor y más significativo conflicto armado de la Antigüedad. A lo largo de más de cien años, las dos naciones más poderosas del Mediterráneo lucharon por la supremacía. Para Cartago, el conflicto finalizó con la destrucción total ...

La industria del sexo en la época romana

categorización social de la prostituta, medidas fiscales y control de la administración

Veremos como la prostitución constituye una paradoja por la doble moral con la que es asumida; de tal forma que si bien la prostitución en la Antigua Roma era mal vista y la meretriz era estigmatizada y denostada socialmente, la misma era necesaria y quedaba ...

Roma Antigua

historia de un imperio global

Roma ha ejercido una influencia sin par, indeleble y duradera, en nuestras sociedades y, en paralelo, su historia y civilización no han dejado ni por un momento de cautivarnos, tanto en la esfera académica como en la cultura popular. Jamás ha perdido Roma un ápice ...

Trade in the Ancient Mediterranean

private order and public institutions

How ancient Mediterranean trade thrived through state institutions From around 700 BCE until the first centuries CE, the Mediterranean enjoyed steady economic growth through trade, reaching a level not to be regained until the early modern era. This process of growth coincided with a process ...

La entrada al inframundo

estelas de falsa puerta en el Antiguo Egipto

La estela de falsa puerta o, sencillamente, la puerta falsa, es uno de los elementos más característicos de los más antiguos enterramientos que nos han llegado de los tiempos de los faraones: mágicas puertas que, convenientemente dispuestas en la tumba, comunicaban en mundo de los ...

Archaic Greece

the age of new reckonings

An introductory guide to the Archaic period in ancient Greece the people, their society, and their culture. Excerpts from literary and other texts give voice to the interests, concerns, and emotions of the Archaic Greeks themselves.

La marginalité dans le roman populaire

Xenofobia y racismo en el Mundo Antiguo

El presente volumen ofrece diversas reflexiones sobre las formas y expresiones de la xenofobia y el racismo en el Mundo Antiguo. Los cuatro primeros capítulos afectan al mundo griego: Manel García Sánchez aborda la invención de una alteridad encarnada por los persas; Laura Sancho Rocher ...

Gender and methodology in the Ancient Near East

approaches from assyriology and beyond

This collection of 23 essays, presented in three sections, aims to discuss women’s studies as well as methodological and theoretical approaches to gender within the broad framework of ancient Near Eastern studies. The first section, comprising most of the contributions, is devoted to Assyriology ...

The lessons of tragedy

statecraft and world order

An eloquent call to draw on the lessons of the past to address current threats to international order The ancient Greeks hard-wired a tragic sensibility into their culture. By looking disaster squarely in the face, by understanding just how badly things could spiral out of ...

Breve historia de los Ejércitos

1. La Legión Romana

Breve historia de la Legión romana es un recorrido apasionante por los campamentos militares romanos y sus habitantes. La obra explica su composición formal, la descripción de los entornos más idóneos donde establecer un contingente militar, los elementos defensivos y ofensivos, los espacios relativos a ...

Diocleziano

Diocleziano, che pure si ritiene aver posto fine con le sue riforme alla crisi del III secolo, è una figura di cui si sa relativamente poco. Le sue origini oscure, il suo ruolo nell’ultima grande persecuzione del cristianesimo, le sue dimissioni dalla carica imperiale ...

The Cambridge History of Religions in the Ancient World

The Cambridge History of Religion in the Ancient World provides a comprehensive examination of the history of the religions of the ancient Near East and Mediterranean world. The essays in these volumes have a broad reach, covering the ancient Near East and Mediterranean, and extending ...

Equids and wheeled vehicles in the Ancient World

essays in memory of Mary A. Littauer

The essays in this volume were originally presented at a symposium in honour of Mary Aiken Littauer, la grande dame de l’hippologie ancienne. The papers consider subjects and material of interest to her, including the chariot, harnessing and equipment, horse breeds and the advent ...