La gran pirámide

clave secreta de la Atlántida

La Gran Pirámide constituye un permanente foco de atracción para visitantes e investigadores, y es fuente de inagotables interrogantes acerca de una civilización capaz de construir, hace miles de años, un monumento que todavía hoy nos causa admiración. Esta obra presenta el fruto de un ...

The rise and fall of calssical Greece

Lord Byron described Greece as great, fallen, and immortal, a characterization more apt than he knew. Through most of its long history, Greece was poor. But in the classical era, Greece was densely populated and highly urbanized. Many surprisingly healthy Greeks lived in remarkably big ...

Atlas histórico del mundo romano

Atlas Histórico del Mundo Romano sintetiza el proceso histórico vinculado a la historia de Roma desde sus orígenes hasta la fragmentación del imperio en el siglo V. Se presta una especial atención a sus principales acontecimientos y se describen las transformaciones políticas, sociales, económicas y ...

The army of the Roman Republic

the second century C, Polybus and the camps at Numantia, Spain

The main source of archaeological evidence for Late Roman Republican camps is a complex of installations around the Iberian city of Numantia in Spain, excavated by Adolf Schulten in the early 1900s. This book reassesses Schulten and concludes that much of his interpretation is questionable ...

Roman military architecture on the frontiers

armies and their architecture in late Antiquity

The Roman army was one of the most astounding organizations in the ancient world, and much of the success of the Roman empire can be attributed to its soldiers. Archaeological remains and ancient texts provide detailed testimonies that have allowed scholars to understand and reconstruct ...

Justinien

le rêve d´un empire chrétien universel

Justinien devient empereur romain d’Orient en 527. Pendant près de quarante ans, le souverain de Constantinople poursuit un seul but : réformer, agrandir, unir son empire dans la même foi chrétienne et en faire la plus grande puissance du monde méditerranéen. Empereur « qui ne dort ...

Eso no estaba en mi libro de Historia del Antiguo Egipto

Eso no estaba en mi libro de Historia del Antiguo Egipto es una obra amena, de lectura fluida, destinada a todos los amantes de la cultura faraónica. Agrupados en seis grandes apartados (Descubrimientos arqueológicos, Grandes faraones, El período amárnico, La sociedad del valle del Nilo ...

Great battles of the classical Greek world

This book presents a selection of eighteen land battles and sieges that span the Classical Greek period, from the Persian invasions to the eclipse of the traditional hoplite heavy infantry at the hands of the Macedonians. This of course is the golden age of the ...

Pax Romana

war, peace and conquest in the Roman world

The Pax Romana is famous for having provided a remarkable period of peace and stability, rarely seen before or since. Yet the Romans were first and foremost conquerors, imperialists who took by force a vast empire stretching from the Euphrates in the east to the ...

En busca de Alejandro

historia de una obsesión

Resulta difícil entender la figura de Alejandro dentro de su contexto histórico. La escasez de fuentes de información contemporáneas, la continua reelaboración e interpretación de los datos disponibles, y la poderosa influencia del mito creado en su día por el propio monarca macedonio constituyen serios ...

Genio de Oriente

Genio de Oriente reflexiona sobre la cultura y el pensamiento de los pueblos del Oriente Próximo Antiguo, conservada en el secreto de los archivos desde finales del IV milenio a.C. hasta bien entrado el I d.C. Contra lo que algunos suponen, el mundo ...

Bárbaros

de los púnicos a los godos: las luchas contra el Imperio Romano.

e los púnicos a los godos, un apasionante recorrido por los siglos de decadencia del Imperio Romano a través de los pueblos que desafiaron su hegemonía. Con el sello de rigor y amenidad característico de Canal Historia. ¿Cómo fue realmente el viaje de Aníbal y ...

Introducción al antiguo Egipto

Introducción al antiguo Egipto pretende acercarnos a una cultura milenaria que creó algunas de las primeras composiciones literarias conocidas, así como los primeros textos legales; a una sociedad, plenamente urbana, que realizó importantes avances en todos los ámbitos del conocimiento. Sus grandiosos monumentos –las pirámides ...

Athenian prostitution

the business of sex

This is a pioneering study that examines the sale of sex in classical Athens from a commercial (rather than from a cultural or moral) perspective. Following the author's earlier book on Athenian banking, Athenian Prostitution analyzes erotic business at Athens not anachronistically, but in ...

Rome, pollution and propriety

dirt, disease and hygiene in the eternal city from antiquity to modernity

A study of the history of filth, disease, purity and cleanliness in one of Europe's oldest and most influential cities. Rome, Pollution and Propriety brings together scholars from a range of disciplines in order to examine the historical continuity of dirt, disease and hygiene ...

Imperial ideals in the roman west

representation, circulation, power

This book examines the figure of the Roman emperor as a unifying symbol for the western empire. It documents an extensive correspondence between the ideals cited in honorific inscriptions for the emperor erected across the Western Empire and those advertised on imperial coins minted at ...

Early Greek Philosophy

Volume IX: sophists, part 2

The fragments and testimonia of the early Greek philosophers (often labeled the Presocratics) have always been not only a fundamental source for understanding archaic Greek culture and ancient philosophy but also a perennially fresh resource that has stimulated Western thought until the present day. This ...

Early Greek Philosophy

Volume VIII: sophists, part 1

The fragments and testimonia of the early Greek philosophers (often labeled the Presocratics) have always been not only a fundamental source for understanding archaic Greek culture and ancient philosophy but also a perennially fresh resource that has stimulated Western thought until the present day. This ...

Early Greek Philosophy

Volume VII: later ionian and athenian thinkers, part 2

The fragments and testimonia of the early Greek philosophers (often labeled the Presocratics) have always been not only a fundamental source for understanding archaic Greek culture and ancient philosophy but also a perennially fresh resource that has stimulated Western thought until the present day. This ...

Early Greek Philosophy

Volume VI: later ionian and athenian thinkers, part 1

The fragments and testimonia of the early Greek philosophers (often labeled the Presocratics) have always been not only a fundamental source for understanding archaic Greek culture and ancient philosophy but also a perennially fresh resource that has stimulated Western thought until the present day. This ...