Introducción al estudio de Grecia

Este libro es una guía excelente para aprender con claridad y exactitud la historia y el mecanismo social de aquel mundo sorprendente que creó la base para todos los aspectos de la cultura occidental. Con una aguda visión de lo esencial, el autor expone brevemente ...

By the spear

Philip II, Alexander the Great, and the rise and fall of the Macedonian Empire

Uniquely offers a joint narrative of Philip and Alexander's reigns. Addresses the long-term after-effects of this watershed moment in ancient history, and what makers of modern strategy can learn from their successes and failures.

El ejército en la Antigua Grecia

El ejército en la antigua Grecia es un periplo por la evolución del arte de la guerra en la Hélade. Da comienzo con los precedentes que establecen la cultura minoica —el potencial de su armada desde la isla de Creta— y la micénica —el poder ...

Manual ilustrado de Paleografía griega

Dentro de las disciplinas relacionadas con los estudios clásicos, la Paleografía griega es una de las grandes desconocidas, pues, hoy en día, en contadas ocasiones los filólogos recurren a la consulta de los manuscritos que nos han transmitido los textos de los autores de la ...

El imperio de Alejandro

aspectos geográficos e historiográficos

La perspectiva en el estudio de la figura de Alejandro se ha ido desplazando desde los aspectos biográficos y personales o más puramente narrativos, que se ven obligados a seguir el curso marcado en su día por los historiadores antiguos, hacia otra serie de cuestiones ...

Esbirros de Ares

la guerra en la Grecia Arcaica

La épica homérica y el registro arqueológico e iconográfico sirven de guías al arqueólogo Josho Brouwers, director de la revista Ancient Warfare, para presentar una historia cultural de los guerreros y la guerra en la Grecia arcaica. El libro Esbirros de Ares, magníficamente ilustrado y ...

Hoplites at war

a comprehensive analysis of heavy infantry combat in the Greek world, 750-100 B.C.E.

It has been 2500 years since the Greek heavy infantry known as hoplites dominated the battlefield. Yet they still capture the imagination today, through a wave of successful action films, novels and documentaries. The mass-media popularity of these famed warriors has, however, helped spawn a ...

El legado de Asclepio

medicina hipocrática y corrientes fisiológicas en la Grecia Antigua

Si a Asclepios podemos considerarle como el mítico fundador de la medicina, entendida como un cuerpo de saberes, a Hipócrates –esta vez sí un personaje histórico– debemos reconocerle como el verdadero padre y precursor del conocimiento médico y su praxis. En esta obra, un especialista ...

The spartan regime

its character, origins, and grand strategy

An authoritative and refreshingly original consideration of the government and culture of ancient Sparta and her place in Greek history For centuries, ancient Sparta has been glorified in song, fiction, and popular art. Yet the true nature of a civilization described as a combination of ...

La sabiduría de los bárbaros

los límites de la helenización

En La sabiduría de los bárbaros, Arnaldo Momigliano aborda el fenómeno histórico-cultural que tuvo lugar durante los siglos IV al I a.C., al entrar en contacto y profunda interacción cinco pueblos: griegos, romanos, judíos, celtas e iranos. Momigliano intenta dilucidar en estas páginas cómo ...

The ancient city

Greece and Rome were quintessentially urban societies. Ancient culture, politics and society arose and developed in the context of the polis and the civitas. In modern scholarship, the ancient city has been the subject of intense debates due to the strong association in Western thought ...

The rise and fall of calssical Greece

Lord Byron described Greece as great, fallen, and immortal, a characterization more apt than he knew. Through most of its long history, Greece was poor. But in the classical era, Greece was densely populated and highly urbanized. Many surprisingly healthy Greeks lived in remarkably big ...

Great battles of the classical Greek world

This book presents a selection of eighteen land battles and sieges that span the Classical Greek period, from the Persian invasions to the eclipse of the traditional hoplite heavy infantry at the hands of the Macedonians. This of course is the golden age of the ...

Athenian prostitution

the business of sex

This is a pioneering study that examines the sale of sex in classical Athens from a commercial (rather than from a cultural or moral) perspective. Following the author's earlier book on Athenian banking, Athenian Prostitution analyzes erotic business at Athens not anachronistically, but in ...

Early Greek Philosophy

Volume IX: sophists, part 2

The fragments and testimonia of the early Greek philosophers (often labeled the Presocratics) have always been not only a fundamental source for understanding archaic Greek culture and ancient philosophy but also a perennially fresh resource that has stimulated Western thought until the present day. This ...

Early Greek Philosophy

Volume VIII: sophists, part 1

The fragments and testimonia of the early Greek philosophers (often labeled the Presocratics) have always been not only a fundamental source for understanding archaic Greek culture and ancient philosophy but also a perennially fresh resource that has stimulated Western thought until the present day. This ...

Early Greek Philosophy

Volume VII: later ionian and athenian thinkers, part 2

The fragments and testimonia of the early Greek philosophers (often labeled the Presocratics) have always been not only a fundamental source for understanding archaic Greek culture and ancient philosophy but also a perennially fresh resource that has stimulated Western thought until the present day. This ...

Early Greek Philosophy

Volume VI: later ionian and athenian thinkers, part 1

The fragments and testimonia of the early Greek philosophers (often labeled the Presocratics) have always been not only a fundamental source for understanding archaic Greek culture and ancient philosophy but also a perennially fresh resource that has stimulated Western thought until the present day. This ...

Early Greek Philosophy

Volume V: western greek thinkers, part 2

The fragments and testimonia of the early Greek philosophers (often labeled the Presocratics) have always been not only a fundamental source for understanding archaic Greek culture and ancient philosophy but also a perennially fresh resource that has stimulated Western thought until the present day. This ...

Early Greek Philosophy

Volume IV: western greek thinkers, part 1

The fragments and testimonia of the early Greek philosophers (often labeled the Presocratics) have always been not only a fundamental source for understanding archaic Greek culture and ancient philosophy but also a perennially fresh resource that has stimulated Western thought until the present day. This ...