Testimonios históricos y míticos de la ciudad de Suruppak

La ciudad de Suruppak estuvo activa en Mesopotamia durante el tercer milenio a.C. y es uno de los principales yacimientos arqueológicos del Dinástico Arcaico IIIa que han sido estudiados. Los texto encontrados en las excavaciones arqueológicas nos han permitido reconstruir su vida económica y ...

Kinship and family in Ancient Egypt

Archaeology and Anthropology in dialogue

In this interdisciplinary study, Leire Olabarria examines ancient Egyptian society through the notion of kinship. Drawing on methods from archaeology and sociocultural anthropology, she provides an emic characterisation of ancient kinship that relies on performative aspects of social interaction. Olabarria uses memorial stelae of the ...

A writer's guide to Ancient Rome

'A really fun idea for a book - and full of great stuff.' Greg Jenner, Public Historian This is the perfect guide for any writer who wants to recreate the Roman world accurately in their fiction. It will aid any novelist, screenwriter, games designer or re-enactor ...

Lenguas y sistemas de escritura en el Oriente Próximo Antiguo y la Cuenca Mediterránea

Sumerios, arcadios, fenicios, arameos, hebreos, griegos, romanos, etíopes, coptos y árabes nos legaron un caleidoscópico legado cultural, cuyas realidades evidencian puntos en común fruto de los contactos establecidos entre unos y otros pueblos a lo largo de varios milenios. El vasto territorio formado por la ...

Infamia

el crimen en la Antigua Roma

Roma no fue un imperio con la mejor de las reputaciones que digamos. Desde sus brutales juegos a sus depravados emperadores, sus violentas turbas y sus despiadadas guerras, su nombre ha resonado a lo largo de los siglos como un grito en un callejón. Pero ...

The deaths of the Republic

Imagery of the body politic in Ciceronian Rome

That the Roman republic died is a commonplace often repeated. In extant literature, the notion is first given form in the works of the orator Cicero (106-43 BCE) and his contemporaries, though the scattered fragments of orators and historians from the earlier republic suggest that ...

The Oxford Handbook to Roman Egypt

Roman Egypt is a critical area of interdisciplinary research, which has steadily expanded since the 1970s and continues to grow. Egypt played a pivotal role in the Roman empire, not only in terms of political, economic, and military strategies, but also as part of an ...

The Oxford Handbook of Roman studies

The Oxford Handbook of Roman Studies is an indispensable guide to the latest scholarship in this area. Over fifty distinguished scholars elucidate the contribution of material as well as literary culture to our understanding of the Roman world. The emphasis is particularly upon the new ...

The Oxford Handbook to Roman Egypt

Roman Egypt is a critical area of interdisciplinary research, which has steadily expanded since the 1970s and continues to grow. Egypt played a pivotal role in the Roman empire, not only in terms of political, economic, and military strategies, but also as part of an ...

The Oxford Handbook of Roman Law and society

The Oxford Handbook of Roman Law and Society surveys the landscape of contemporary research and charts principal directions of future inquiry. More than a history of doctrine or an account of jurisprudence, the Handbook brings to bear upon Roman legal study the full range of ...

El artista en el antiguo Egipto

Vida y carrera de los pintores de Ramsés II

Con sólo mencionar el Valle de los Reyes, a nuestra mente acuden imágenes de sus relieves y pinturas, cargadas de simbolismo, misterio y ritual; pero también de un profundo y sensible gusto estético que no tiene nada que envidiar a ninguna otra cultura de la ...

Esparta

Ciudad de las artes, las armas y las leyes

Más allá de los habituales tópicos sobre Esparta —el sacrificio de Leónidas y sus hombres en las Termópilas, el asumido ascetismo de la ciudad o el rigor de su sistema educativo—, el modelo de Atenas es el que generalmente se ha instalado en el imaginario ...

El ejército romano en Egipto

Este libro es singular y en cierto modo pionero en nuestro país, porque es el primero que estudia, en sus diversos capítulos, el tema de la presencia militar de los romanos en tierras egipcias durante los tres primeros siglos del Imperio romano. Son muchos los ...

New approaches to greek and roman warfare

'New Approaches to Greek and Roman Warfare' brings together essays from specialists in ancient history who employ contemporary tools and approaches to reveal new evidence and increase knowledge of ancient militaries and warfare. In-depth yet highly readable, this volume covers the most recent trends for ...

Barbarians at the wall

the first nomadic empire and the making of China

The people of the first nomadic empire left no written records, but from 200 BC they dominated the heart of Asia for 400 years. They changed the world. The Mongols, today's descendants of Genghis Khan, see them as ancestors. Their rise cemented Chinese unity ...

The imperialisation of Assyria

an archaeological approach

The Assyrian Empire was the first state to achieve durable domination of the Ancient Near East, enduring some seven centuries and, eventually, controlling most of the region. Yet, we know little about how this empire emerged from a relatively minor polity in the Tigris region ...

The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek and roman science

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the key themes in Greek and Roman science, medicine, mathematics and technology. A distinguished team of specialists engage with topics including the role of observation and experiment, Presocratic natural philosophy, ancient creationism, and the special style of ancient ...

The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek and roman science

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the key themes in Greek and Roman science, medicine, mathematics and technology. A distinguished team of specialists engage with topics including the role of observation and experiment, Presocratic natural philosophy, ancient creationism, and the special style of ancient ...

Crossing the Pomerium

the boundaries of political, religious, and military institutions from Caesar to Constantine

A multifaceted exploration of the interplay between civic and military life in ancient Rome The ancient Romans famously distinguished between civic life in Rome and military matters outside the city-a division marked by the pomerium, an abstract religious and legal boundary that was central to ...

La vida cotidiana en Roma

En La vida cotidiana en Roma, Miguel Ángel Novillo López, haciendo uso de su rigor como historiador y empleando un estilo ágil y ameno, aúna la magnífica historia de la vida cotidiana en Roma combinando y analizando para ello una gran variedad de fuentes y ...