La esclavitud en Grecia, Roma y el Mundo Cristiano

apogeo y ocaso de un sistema atroz

Muchos contrastes y diferencias distinguen el mundo antiguo del mundo moderno, pero ninguno de tanto relieve como la existencia de la esclavitud, que constituye la base y el fundamento de la sociedad antigua. Y tal vez ningún otro historiador del siglo XX como Ettore Ciccotti ...

The historian's craft in the age of Herodotus

The origins and development of Greek historiography cannot be properly understood unless early historical writings are situated in the framework of late archaic and early classical Greek culture and society. Contextualization opens up new perspectives on the subject in The Historian's Craft in the ...

Polytheism and society at Athens

This book is the first attempt that has ever been made to give a comprehensive account of the religious life of ancient Athens. The city's many festivals are discussed in detail, with attention to recent anthropological theory; so too, for instance, are the cults ...

Termópilas

la batalla que cambió el mundo

#Viajero, ve a Esparta y cuenta que aquí hemos muerto en obediencia a sus leyes# dicen las célebres palabras del poeta Simónides que glorifican el heroísmo de los 300 guerreros espartanos que, liderados por Leónidas, dieron sus vidas en el paso de las Termópilas, conteniendo ...

Greek historical inscriptions, 404-323 BC

This volume is a successor to the second volume of M. N. Tod's Selection of Greek Historical Inscriptions (OUP, 1948). It provides an up-to-date selection - with introduction, Greek texts, English translations, and commentaries which cater for the needs of today's students - of inscriptions ...

The Cambridge companion to the age of Pericles

Mid-fifth-century Athens saw the development of the Athenian empire, the radicalization of Athenian democracy through the empowerment of poorer citizens, the adornment of the city through a massive and expensive building program, the classical age of Athenian tragedy, the assembly of intellectuals offering novel approaches ...

The origins of theater in ancient Greece and beyond

from ritual to drama

The Origins of Theater in Ancient Greece and Beyond examines the evidence for the pre-history and origin of drama. The belief that drama developed from religious ritual has been commonplace since the time of Aristotle but here is little agreement on just how this happened ...

Trade in Classical Antiquity

Historians have long argued about the place of trade in classical antiquity: was it the life-blood of a complex, Mediterranean-wide economic system, or a thin veneer on the surface of an underdeveloped agrarian society? Trade underpinned the growth of Athenian and Roman power, helping to ...

The greek city states

a source book

Political activity and political thinking began in the cities and other states of ancient Greece, and terms such as tyranny, aristocracy, oligarchy, democracy and politics itself are Greek words for concepts first discussed in Greece. Rhodes presents in translation a selection of texts illustrating the ...

Los nómadas del mar

En esta selección de los principales artículos que la autora ha dedicado al análisis del Bronce final en el Medi¬terráneo oriental se analiza el nacimiento de un nuevo tipo de comercio interregional, individualista y empresarial, que contrasta con el modelo tradicional de co¬mer ...

La colección de las monedas de sistema griego y romano del Instituto de Valencia de Don Juan

La presente publicación se organiza y estudia por períodos históricos según el sistema monetario al que pertenecen. Su cronología abarca dieciocho siglos, desde el siglo V a.C. al XIII d.C., aunque el mayor número de ejemplares se agrupa en el período clásico romano.

The Cambridge companion to archaic Greece

The Cambridge Companion to Archaic Greece provides a wide-ranging synthesis of history, society, and culture during the formative period of Ancient Greece, from the Age of Homer in the late eighth century to the Persian Wars of 490-480 BC. In ten clearly written and succinct ...

A guide to hellenistic literature

This book is a guide to the Greek literature of the Hellenistic period, from the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BCE to the Battle of Actium in 31 BCE. It demonstrates how, during this period, Greek culture spread to Egypt and the Near ...

Los griegos

encrucijada de la civilización

El gran helenista Paul Cartledge, profesor de la Universidad de Cambridge, nos ofrece en este libro, espléndidamente ilustrado, un inolvidable recorrido a lo largo de los años en que se formó la civilización occidental y se pusieron los cimientos de nuestra moderna concepción de la ...

Horkos

the oath in greek society

The importance of oaths to ancient Greek culture can hardly be overstated, especially in the political and judicial fields; but they have never been the object of a comprehensive, systematic study. This volume derives from a research project on the oath in ancient Greece, and ...

Los griegos y nosotros

antropología comparada de la Grecia antigua

Obviamente, los griegos no son una tribu como las demás. Desde el momento en que hablamos del «nosotros» #de nosotros y de los otros#, inevitablemente, los griegos constituyen realmente el quid de la cuestión. De ahí el interés en situarlos en perspectiva, en confrontar las ...

Technology and culture in greek and roman antiquity

The technological achievements of the Greeks and Romans continue to fascinate and excite admiration. But what was the place of technology in their cultures? Through five case-studies, this book sets ancient technical knowledge in its political, social and intellectual context. It explores the definition of ...

Alejandro Magno

el destino final de un héroe

Alejandro Magno: el destino final de un héroe ofrece un relato épico de una búsqueda que aún continúa y también recoge las especulaciones forjadas durante miles de años, así como nuevos interrogantes sobre las ramificaciones de la verdadera resolución de uno de los mayores misterios ...

Athenian legacies

essays on the politics of going on together

How do communities survive catastrophe? Using classical Athens as its case study, this book argues that if a democratic community is to survive over time, its people must choose to go on together. That choice often entails hardship and hard bargains. In good times, going ...

De Grecia a Roma y de Roma a Grecia

un camino de ida y vuelta

En este tiempo de encuentro entre civilizaciones parece oportuno reflexionar desde una perspectiva diferente sobre las relaciones culturales que mediaron entre Roma y Grecia en la Antigüedad. Habitualmente se ha entendido que esas relaciones operaron en un único sentido, como influjo de la cultura griega ...