Les Messéniens de 370/369 au 1er siècle de notre Ère

monnayages et histoire

La lontananza dei Greci

Therapeia

la medicina popular en el mundo clásico

Money and the early greek mind

homer, philosophy, tragedy

How were the Greeks of the sixth century BC able to invent philosophy and tragedy? In this book Richard Seaford argues that a large part of the answer can be found in another momentous development, the invention and rapid spread of coinage which produced the ...

Thermopylae

the battle for the West

"A gripping story." -- Economist . An impressively accessible narrative depicting the three-day battle for the pass at Thermopylae (the Hot Gates)--a critical contest in Xerxes's massive invasion of Greece. The bloody stand made there by Leonidas and his small Spartan army in 480 B ...

Histoire grecque

Résumer en 500 pages une histoire aussi prestigieuse d'un pays béni des dieux, d'une civilisation à laquelle notre monde occidental doit tant, semble une gageure. Et pourtant ce manuel publié pour la première fois en 1995 et réédité déjà 4 fois est une ...

LE complexe de Zeus

représentations de la paternité en gréce ancienne

Kékrops, le roi-serpent

imaginaire athénien, représentations de l'humain et de l'animalité en Grèce ancienne

Ancient greek religion

Ancient Greek Religion provides an introduction to the fundamental beliefs and practices and the major deities of Greek religion. While the focus is on Athens in the classical period, the book includes detailed discussion of Greek gods and heroes, myth and cult from the archaic ...

Spectacular power in the Greek and Roman city

In the great cities of Greece and Rome, politicians and kings sought to be seen as celebrities. They tried to appear wondrous and exciting to citizens and subjects. This study shows some of their methods and so reveals the importance of political advertisement and spectacle ...

The greco-roman East

politics, culture, society

This collection of papers illustrates how our picture of the Greco-Roman East has changed over the last two decades as a result of new finds, new methods, and new interests on the part of classical scholars. The chapters, by a distinguished international cast of contributors ...

Inventing superstition

from the hippocratics to the christians

Provides a detailed genealogy of the idea of superstition, its history over eight centuries, from classical Greece to the Christianized Roman Empire of the 4th Century AD. This work demonstrates that the concept of superstition was invented by Greek intellectuals to condemn popular religious practices ...

Babylon, Memphis, Persepolis

eastern contexts of greek culture

At the distant beginning of Western civilization, according to European tradition, Greece stands as an insular, isolated, near-miracle of burgeoning culture. This book traverses the ancient world's three great centers of cultural exchange--Babylonian Nineveh, Egyptian Memphis, and Iranian Persepolis--to situate classical Greece in its ...

La capacidad jurídica de las mujeres griegas en la Época Helenística

la epigrafía como fuente

Classics in the history of Greek mathematics

This volume includes a selection of 19 classic papers on the history of Greek mathematics that were published during the 20th century and affected significantly the state of the art of this field. It is divided into six thematic sections and covers all the major ...

Troya

Troya, Homero , Schliemann: desde hace más de 130 años esta triada puede considerarse probablemente como el más poderoso de los mitos del Occidente europeo. La arqueología se muestra aquí desde su cara aventurera. Y las más recientes excavaciones, realizadas bajo la dirección de Manfred Korfmann ...

Los griegos

libro desplegable

Libro desplegable.

Visiones mítico-religiosas del padre en la Antigüedad Clásica

Aproximación a la Historia griega

El lego o el simple curioso suele figurarse la historia antigua de forma elemental, como un teatral bloque de guerras y sucesos de los cuales nos ha llegado noticia cierta por los historiadores de la época. Tan esquemática visión es la que contribuye a desmontar ...

El mundo rural en la Grecia antigua

Hasta hace poco, la situación de los labradores griegos había recibido muy poca atención, dado que los historiadores habían privilegiado temas vinculados a la esclavitud. Ahora la situación ha comenzado a cambiar, replanteándose varios de los problemas referidos al campesinado helénico. Esta compilación aborda diversos ...