Ancient Greece

social and historical documents from archaic times to the death of Alexander The Great

The field of Byzantine jewellery (4th-15th centuries) is a rapidly expanding one and a large amount of important research has been conducted within the last ten years, both by scholars on the continent and in America. The intention of the conference, and subsequently the volume ...

Architecture of Monoan Crete

constructing identity the Aegean Bronze Age

Ever since Sir Arthur Evans first excavated at the site of the Palace at Knossos in the early twentieth century, scholars and visitors have been drawn to the architecture of Bronze Age Crete. Much of the attraction comes from the geographical and historical uniqueness of ...

La civilización griega

los orígenes de nuestra cultura

La presente obra pretende ser un acercamiento a la evolución histórica de uno de los pueblos más destacados y originales de la Antigüedad. Entre los griegos nacieron la filosofía, el teatro, la historia como ciencia, el sistema político que conocemos como democracia, el amor a ...

Alexander the Great an his Empire

a short introduction

This is the first publication in English of Pierre Briant's classic short history of Alexander the Great's conquest of the Persian empire, from the Mediterranean to Central Asia. Eschewing a conventional biographical focus, this is the only book in any language that sets ...

Barrington atlas of the Greek and Roman World

Ed. Richard J.A. Talbert. It accompanies CD-ROM.Great format with illustrations. In 99 full-color maps spread over 175 pages, the "Barrington Atlas" recreates the entire world of the Greeks and Romans from the British Isles to the Indian subcontinent and deep into North Africa ...

Carthaginian Warrior 264-146 B.C.

Il. Steve Noon. By the outbreak of the First Carthaginian War, Carthage controlled the whole coast of northern Africa. At first, the core of the Carthaginian armies was made up of armed citizens, backed by levies from tributary allies and foreign mercenaries. Later, the mercenaries ...

From Solon to Socrates

greek history and civilization during the 6th and 5th centuries B.C.

"From Solon to Socrates" is a magisterial narrative introduction to what is generally regarded as the most important period of Greek history. Stressing the unity of Greek history and the centrality of Athens, Victor Ehrenberg covers a rich and diverse range of political, economic, military ...

Viaje a la Grecia Antigua

Prol. José Francisco Yvars; Trad. Carmen Artal. Esta obra, traducida por vez primera al español, ha sido valorada con unánime entusiasmo por la crítica y el público a lo largo de más de cincuenta años. Desde el palacio del rey Minos en la isla de ...

Ancient Greek cults

a guide

Using archaeological, epigraphic, and literary sources; and incorporating current scholarly theories, this volume will serve as an excellent companion to any introduction to Greek mythology, showing a side of the Greek gods to which most students are rarely exposed. Detailed enough to be used as ...

Mystic cults in Magna Graecia

Eds. Giovanni Casadio, Patricia A. Johnston. In Vergil's Aeneid, the poet implies that those who have been initiated into mystery cults enjoy a blessed situation both in life and after death. This collection of essays brings new insight to the study of mystic cults ...

Historia del espíritu griego

Trad. Manuel Sacristán. Wilhelm Nestle nos introduce en la literatura, el mito y la filosofía griega en un recorrido que va de Homero a Luciano. El mundo griego, creador del primer racionalismo occidental, fue profunda e imaginativamente consciente del poder, el misterio y el peligro ...

The battle of Marathon

How did the city-state of Athens defeat the invaders from Persia, the first world empire, on the plain of Marathon in 490 BCE? Scholars skeptical of our earliest surviving source, Herodotus, have produced one ingenious theory after another. In this stimulating new book, bound to ...

The classical tradition

How do we get from the polis to the police? Or from Odysseus' sirens to an ambulance's? The legacy of ancient Greece and Rome has been imitated, resisted, misunderstood, and reworked by every culture that followed. In this volume, some five hundred articles by ...

Pharmakon

Plato, drug culture, and identity in Ancient Athens

"Beginning from the most thorough review of classical intoxicants, Michael A. Rinella applies his findings in detail to many Platonic texts. His results certainly have great significance for students of Plato, but also for the history of medicine and of classical civilization generally. It is ...

Light and darkness in Ancient Greek myth and religion

Eds. Menelaos Christipoulos, Efimia D. Karakantza, Olga Levaniouk. Light and darkness played an important role beyond the division of time in ancient Greek myth and religion; the contributors to Light and Darkness in Ancient Greek Myth and Religion consider its function on both the individual ...

Animals in Greek and Roman thought

a sourcebokk

Although reasoned discourse on human-animal relations is often considered a late twentieth-century phenomenon, ethical debate over animals and how humans should treat them can be traced back to the philosophers and literati of the classical world. From Stoic assertions that humans owe nothing to animals ...

La Antigua Grecia

historia política, social y cultural

Auts. Sarah Pomeroy...[et.al]. Escrita por los cuatro especialistas más destacados del mundo clásico, este libro nos introduce a la historia y a la civilización de la Antigua Grecia en toda su complejidad y variedad, desde sus inicios hasta su «renacimiento» en el período ...

Kinship myth in Ancient Greece

In ancient Greece, interstate relations, such as in the formation of alliances, calls for assistance, exchanges of citizenshi, and territorial conquest, were often grounded in mythical kinship. In these cases, the common ancestor was most often a legendary figure from whom both communities claimed descent ...

Imágenes primigenias de la religión griega.T.III

Misterios de los Cabiros

Misterios de los Cabiros es la tercera entrega de la serie Imágenes primigenias de la religión griega. Con su habitual erudición e ingeniosa metodología, Kerényi esclarece uno de los conceptos fundamentales para el entendimiento de lo religioso en el mundo griego: el «misterio», aquello que ...

Money in classical antiquity

This is the first book to undertake a comprehensive analysis of the impact of money on the economy, society and culture of the Greek and Roman worlds. It uses new approaches in economic history to explore how money affected the economy in antiquity and demonstrates ...