Tras el asesinato de Julio César en el 44 a. C., fueron dos los hombres que se disputaban el mandato de la todopoderosa Roma: Marco Antonio y el heredero elegido por el propio César, el joven Octavio, futuro Augusto. Pero Marco Antonio se enamoró de ...
Tras el asesinato de Julio César en el 44 a. C., fueron dos los hombres que se disputaban el mandato de la todopoderosa Roma: Marco Antonio y el heredero elegido por el propio César, el joven Octavio, futuro Augusto. Pero Marco Antonio se enamoró de ...
Esta pequeña joya ilustrada nos invita a un viaje fascinante por la civilización egipcia desde los primeros momentos de la Edad de Piedra hasta su incorporación al Imperio romano. A través sus páginas podrás admirar los monumentos más emblemáticos de esta cultura milenaria, como Las ...
Esta pequeña joya ilustrada nos invita a un viaje fascinante por la civilización egipcia desde los primeros momentos de la Edad de Piedra hasta su incorporación al Imperio romano. A través sus páginas podrás admirar los monumentos más emblemáticos de esta cultura milenaria, como Las ...
Sic Venus ut subito coiunxit corpora amantum dividet lux «Así, después de que Venus ha unido súbitamente los cuerpos de los amantes, los divide la luz del día» La sexualidad puede parecer algo natural, como el comer, y, sin embargo, más allá de la biología ...
Sic Venus ut subito coiunxit corpora amantum dividet lux «Así, después de que Venus ha unido súbitamente los cuerpos de los amantes, los divide la luz del día» La sexualidad puede parecer algo natural, como el comer, y, sin embargo, más allá de la biología ...
(Revista Desperta Ferro. Antigua y Medieval, Nº 79, año 2023)
Desperta Ferro Ediciones . Madrid, 2023
En la primavera del año 101 el emperador Trajano dio comienzo a la primera de sus guerras dácicas, destinada a neutralizar, de forma permanente, la amenaza que el Estado dacio y la entente conformada a su alrededor suponían para los intereses geopolíticos y estratégicos del ...
(Revista Desperta Ferro. Antigua y Medieval, Nº 79, año 2023)
Desperta Ferro Ediciones . Madrid, 2023
En la primavera del año 101 el emperador Trajano dio comienzo a la primera de sus guerras dácicas, destinada a neutralizar, de forma permanente, la amenaza que el Estado dacio y la entente conformada a su alrededor suponían para los intereses geopolíticos y estratégicos del ...
University of California Press. Berkeley (CA), 2023
This book chronicles the earliest histories of familiar tropical Asian crops in the ancient Middle East and the Mediterranean, from rice and cotton to citruses and cucumbers. Drawing on archaeological materials and textual sources in over seven ancient languages, The Tropical Turn unravels the breathtaking ...
University of California Press. Berkeley (CA), 2023
This book chronicles the earliest histories of familiar tropical Asian crops in the ancient Middle East and the Mediterranean, from rice and cotton to citruses and cucumbers. Drawing on archaeological materials and textual sources in over seven ancient languages, The Tropical Turn unravels the breathtaking ...
Ramesses II ruled the Nile Valley and the wider Egyptian empire from 1279 to 1213 B.C., one of the longest reigns in pharaonic history. He was a cultural innovator, a relentless self-promoter, and an astute diplomat-the peace treaty signed after the Battle of Kadesh ...
Ramesses II ruled the Nile Valley and the wider Egyptian empire from 1279 to 1213 B.C., one of the longest reigns in pharaonic history. He was a cultural innovator, a relentless self-promoter, and an astute diplomat-the peace treaty signed after the Battle of Kadesh ...
The temples and theatres of the ancient Greek world are widely known, but there is less familiarity with the houses in which people lived. In this book, Lisa Nevett provides an accessible introduction to the varied forms of housing found across the Greek world between ...
The temples and theatres of the ancient Greek world are widely known, but there is less familiarity with the houses in which people lived. In this book, Lisa Nevett provides an accessible introduction to the varied forms of housing found across the Greek world between ...
A provocative account of Jewish encounters with the public baths of ancient Rome
Public bathhouses embodied the Roman way of life, from food and fashion to sculpture and sports. The most popular institution of the ancient Mediterranean world, the baths drew people of all backgrounds ...
A provocative account of Jewish encounters with the public baths of ancient Rome
Public bathhouses embodied the Roman way of life, from food and fashion to sculpture and sports. The most popular institution of the ancient Mediterranean world, the baths drew people of all backgrounds ...
How religious ritual united a growing and diversifying Roman Republic
Many narrative histories of Rome's transformation from an Italian city-state to a Mediterranean superpower focus on political and military conflicts as the primary agents of social change. Divine Institutions places religion at the heart ...
How religious ritual united a growing and diversifying Roman Republic
Many narrative histories of Rome's transformation from an Italian city-state to a Mediterranean superpower focus on political and military conflicts as the primary agents of social change. Divine Institutions places religion at the heart ...
In this book, Claudia Moser offers a new understanding of Roman religion in the Republican era through an exploration of sacrifice, its principal ritual. Examining the long-term imprint of sacrificial practices on the material world, she focuses on monumental altars as the site for the ...
In this book, Claudia Moser offers a new understanding of Roman religion in the Republican era through an exploration of sacrifice, its principal ritual. Examining the long-term imprint of sacrificial practices on the material world, she focuses on monumental altars as the site for the ...
La batalla de Mantinea, saldada en julio del año 362 a.C. con la victoria de las tropas tebanas y la dramática muerte de Epaminondas, supone un momento determinante de la historia griega por cuanto constituye el epílogo de una época dominada por la sucesión ...
La batalla de Mantinea, saldada en julio del año 362 a.C. con la victoria de las tropas tebanas y la dramática muerte de Epaminondas, supone un momento determinante de la historia griega por cuanto constituye el epílogo de una época dominada por la sucesión ...
Historia de las vírgenes vestales es un cautivador ensayo escrito por Fernando Gil González que nos adentra en el intrigante mundo del antiguo sacerdocio romano femenino dedicado a Vesta. El libro nos transporta a la Roma antigua, donde las vestales tenían un papel crucial como ...
Historia de las vírgenes vestales es un cautivador ensayo escrito por Fernando Gil González que nos adentra en el intrigante mundo del antiguo sacerdocio romano femenino dedicado a Vesta. El libro nos transporta a la Roma antigua, donde las vestales tenían un papel crucial como ...
En las páginas del libro el lector encontrará un sinfín de detalles curiosos, cuentos, mitos y leyendas. Las múltiples citas contienen datos complementarios que obligan a seguir buscando, a seguir curioseando para aprender cada vez más acerca del mundo humano sumido en la oscuridad de ...
En las páginas del libro el lector encontrará un sinfín de detalles curiosos, cuentos, mitos y leyendas. Las múltiples citas contienen datos complementarios que obligan a seguir buscando, a seguir curioseando para aprender cada vez más acerca del mundo humano sumido en la oscuridad de ...
This volume explores irony - in its essence, saying other than one actually means - in the collected works of Xenophon. Xenophon's Other Voice argues that there are two voices in the author: one ostensible at the level of the literal text, which is available to ...
This volume explores irony - in its essence, saying other than one actually means - in the collected works of Xenophon. Xenophon's Other Voice argues that there are two voices in the author: one ostensible at the level of the literal text, which is available to ...
Rome - Urbs Roma: city of patricians and plebeians, emperors and gladiators, slaves and concubines - was the epicentre of a far-flung imperium whose cultural legacy is incalculable. How a tiny settlement, founded by desperate adventurers beside the banks of the River Tiber, came to rule vast ...
Rome - Urbs Roma: city of patricians and plebeians, emperors and gladiators, slaves and concubines - was the epicentre of a far-flung imperium whose cultural legacy is incalculable. How a tiny settlement, founded by desperate adventurers beside the banks of the River Tiber, came to rule vast ...
The present volume collects eighteen essays exploring the history of ancient Near Eastern studies. Combining diverse approaches-synthetic and analytic, diachronic and transnational-this collection offers critical reflections on the who, why, and how of this cluster of fields. How have political contexts determined the conduct of ...
The present volume collects eighteen essays exploring the history of ancient Near Eastern studies. Combining diverse approaches-synthetic and analytic, diachronic and transnational-this collection offers critical reflections on the who, why, and how of this cluster of fields. How have political contexts determined the conduct of ...
In Ramesses II, Egypt's Ultimate Pharaoh Peter J. Brand paints with authoritative knowledge and colourful details a compelling portrait of this legendary Pharaoh who ruled over Imperial Egypt during its Golden Age.
Warrior, mighty builder and statesman, over the course of his 67-year-long reign ...
In Ramesses II, Egypt's Ultimate Pharaoh Peter J. Brand paints with authoritative knowledge and colourful details a compelling portrait of this legendary Pharaoh who ruled over Imperial Egypt during its Golden Age.
Warrior, mighty builder and statesman, over the course of his 67-year-long reign ...
The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago. Chicago, 2023
How did Islam's sacred scripture, the Arabic Qur'an, emerge from western Arabia at a time when the region was religiously fragmented and lacked a clearly established tradition of writing to render the Arabic language?
The studies in this volume, the proceedings of a ...
The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago. Chicago, 2023
How did Islam's sacred scripture, the Arabic Qur'an, emerge from western Arabia at a time when the region was religiously fragmented and lacked a clearly established tradition of writing to render the Arabic language?
The studies in this volume, the proceedings of a ...
The culture of ancient Greece was thronged with personifications. In poetry and the visual arts, personified figures of what might seem abstractions claim our attention. The Greeks, in Dr Johnson's phrase, 'shock the mind by ascribing effects to non-entity'. This study examines the logic ...
The culture of ancient Greece was thronged with personifications. In poetry and the visual arts, personified figures of what might seem abstractions claim our attention. The Greeks, in Dr Johnson's phrase, 'shock the mind by ascribing effects to non-entity'. This study examines the logic ...
An enjoyable, accessible exploration of the legacy of ancient Greece today, across our daily lives and all forms of popular culture
Our contemporary world is inescapably Greek. Whether in a word like "pandemic," a Freudian state of mind like the "Oedipus complex," or a replica ...
An enjoyable, accessible exploration of the legacy of ancient Greece today, across our daily lives and all forms of popular culture
Our contemporary world is inescapably Greek. Whether in a word like "pandemic," a Freudian state of mind like the "Oedipus complex," or a replica ...
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