Classical Greece and the birth of western art

What was the #Classical Revolution# in Greek art? What were its contexts, aims, achievements, and impact? This book introduces students to these questions and offers some answers to them. Andrew Stewart examines Greek architecture, painting, and sculpture of the fifth and fourth centuries BC in ...

Le donne in Grecia

A cura de Giampiera Arrigoni ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Le donne nello sport e nei riti funebri, nell#amore e nella vecchiaia, le donne e il dionisismo, la prostituzione, la schiavitù, le donne in guerra e di fronte alla morte, le sacerdotesse, le donne #speciali#: «che la storia si ...

Héroes viajeros

los griegos y sus mitos

Trad., Juan Rabasseda-Gascón y Teófilo de Lozoya. Contiene ilustraciones. El gran historiador del mundo clásico Robert Lane Fox recrea en este libro la historia de los griegos que en el siglo VIII a. de C. recorrían la cuenca mediterránea con sus míticas narraciones sobre héroes ...

Greek sculpture

function, materials, and techniques in the archaic and classical periods

Ed., Olga Palagia During the sixth and fifth centuries BC, Greek sculpture developed into a fine art. With the human figure as its main subject, artists worked to represent it in increasingly natural terms. This book explores the material aspects of Greek sculpture at a ...

Art and identity in dark age greece, 1100-700 B.C.E.

Geometric art is the first coherent style of ancient Greece. It is original, confident. Based on its Greek worldwide appearance and three- century run from 1050 to 700 B.C.E., it must be judged a resounding success. Down to the last half century its ...

Periplógrafos griegos I

Vol. 1: Épocas arcaica y clásica 1: Periplo de Hanón y autores de los siglos VI y V a.C.

En este primer volumen sobre los periplos griegos se ofrecen los textos más antiguos (siglos VI-V a.C.): el Periplo de Hanón y fragmentos de Escílax, Eutímenes, Fileas y Damastes. A la edición crítica de los textos en versión bilingüe (griego-español) preceden una introducción general ...

The wars of Alexander´s successors. 323-281 BC.Vol. 1

commanders & campaigns

When the dying Alexander the Great was asked to whom he bequeathed his vast empire, he supposedly replied 'to the strongest'. There ensued a long series of struggles between his generals and governors for control of these vast territories. Most of these Diadochi, or successors ...

En Grecia y Roma

II. Lecturas pendientes

Este libro recoge varias obras seleccionadas por el profesorado del Curso de Formación Continua de la Universidad de Granada, expuestas al alumnado universitario, no siempre matriculado en Filología Clásica. INDICE: Prólogo. Estrabón: geografía, filosofía y mito. Séneca, De ira. Avieno: obra marítima. Un drama satírico ...

Rethinking mycenaean palaces II

'This second, revised, edition of "Rethinking Mycenaean Palaces" builds on the 1999 volume, and reproduces in Part I the original edition in its entirety. Part II of this volume includes five new chapters that address areas of interest that were not included in the first ...

Esparta y Atenas en el siglo V a.C.

La derrota de Atenas no inauguró una época de paz y libertad por la que muchos griegos creían haber luchado, sino que dio paso a la construcción de un nuevo imperio espartano aún más riguroso que el que Atenas había impuesto en el seno de ...

Historia Antigua Universal II

El mundo griego

Esta Unidad Didáctica está preparada para las necesidades del alumno de la UNED ajustándose al programa de la asignatura de Historia Antigua Universal y empleando un método didáctico que facilita el estudio como mapas, láminas, cuadros sinópticos, esquemas...Al final de cada capítulo se ha ...

Los templos griegos

La belleza y ejecución de los templos griegos ha sido motivo de admiración durante siglos. Su diseño y construcción no se han superado. Los ejemplos mejor conservados, como el Partenón ateniense, el templo de Segesta en Sicilia o los de Paestum en el sur de ...

Heródoto y la Ciencia de su tiempo

Alexander The Great failure

the collapse of the Macedonian Empire

Alexander the Great's empire stretched across three continents and his achievements changed the nature of the ancient world. But for all his military prowess and success as a conqueror, John Grainger argues that he was one of history's great failures. Alexander's arrogance ...

Pilgrimage in graeco-roman and early christian antiquity

seeing the Gods

This book presents a range of case- studies of pilgrimage in Graeco-Roman antiquity, drawing on a wide variety of evidence. It rejects the usual reluctance to accept the category of pilgrimage in pagan polytheism and affirms the significance of sacred mobility not only as an ...

Troy

from Homer´s Iliad to Hollywood epic

This is the first book systematically to examine Wolfgang Petersen's epic film Troy from different archaeological, literary, cultural, and cinematic perspectives. The first book systematically to examine Wolfgang Petersen's epic film Troy from different archaeological, literary, cultural, and cinematic perspectives. Examines the film ...

The legend of Alexander the Great on greek and roman coins

This outstanding introductory survey collects, presents and examines, for the very first time, the portraits and representations of Alexander the Great on the ancient coins of the Greek and Roman period. From 320 BC to AD 400, Karsten Dahmen examines not only Alexander's own ...

Amphiaraos

guerrier, devin et guérisseur

Guerrier " argien, " devin "", membre de l'expédition des Sept qui échoua à remettre Polynice sur le trône de Thèbes, Amphiaraos fut aussi une divinité oraculaire dans les environs de Thèbes avant qu'on l'installe, à la fin du Ve siècle av. J.-C., en ...

Egypt and the egytians

Surveying more than three thousand years of Egyptian civilization, Egypt and the Egyptians offers a comprehensive introduction to this most rich and complex of early societies. From high politics to the concerns of everyday Egyptians, the book explores every aspect of Egyptian culture and society ...

The Oxford dictionary of the classical world

Spanning almost one thousand years, from the first Olympic Games in 776 bC to the death of Marcus Aurelius in aD 180, this accesible and wide-ranging reference work draws on the groundbreaking Oxford classical dictionary to present more than 2,500 entries on the civilizations ...