Le prestige des élites

recherches sur les modes de reconnaissance sociale en Grèce entre les Xe et Ve siècles avant J.-C.

L'archaïsme grec passe d'ordinaire pour l'âge d'or de l'aristocratie, cette antique noblesse détentrice de l'autorité politique et bénéficiaire d'une aisance financière lui permettant de mener une vie de luxe et de loisir. Cette image a néanmoins connu ces ...

The invention of art history in Ancient Greece

religion, society and artistic rationalisation

In this book contemporary perspectives in the sociology of art are brought to bear on a series of fundamental questions in the history of Greek art: the causes and the cultural significance of the development of naturalism in classical Greek religious art; the sociogenesis and ...

Ancient Greek accentuation

synchronic patterns, frequency effects, and prehistory

The accent of many Greek words has long been considered arbitrary, but Philomen Probert points to some striking correlations between accentuation and a word's synchronic morphological transparency, and between accentuation and word frequency, that give clues to the prehistory of the accent system. Bringing ...

Didymos on Demosthenes

This edition of the papyrus containing Didymos' comments on some of Demosthenes' speeches aims to provide the student with a new reading of the text, a facing translation that is carefully edited for those who cannot use the Greek to show what is extant and ...

Musa celeste

Vol.I: un recorrido narrativo por los antiguos mitos griegos

Musa celeste es un recorrido por los antiguos mitos griegos, un intento de ofrecer la cosmovisión presente en la antigua mitología griega a través de una estructura narrativa abierta. En la antigua civilización griega el mito no era un argumento cerrado, era un elemento vivo ...

La Atlántida

pequeña historia de un mito platónico

Este libro, que Pierre Vidal-Naquet llevaba dentro desde hace medio siglo, comienza alrededor del año 355 a.C., cuando Platón redacta Timeo y Critias. Seguramente Platón bebió de la cultura de su tiempo, de Homero a Heródoto y Tucídides, pero el mito del continente perdido ...

Ancient tyranny

This book examines the autocratic rulers and dynasties of classical Greece and Rome and the changing concepts of tyranny in political thought and culture. It brings together historians, political theorists and philosophers, all offering new perspectives on the autocratic governments of the ancient world. The ...

La naissance de la raison en Grèce

" Peut-on raisonnablement établir l'origine de la raison, en faisant retour à sa source grecque, en un temps marqué par les multiples crises de la rationalité ? Notre modernité parviendra-t- elle à saisir sa naissance lointaine sur le mode de la rupture ou sur celui de ...

Ancient Greece

from the mycenaean palaces to the age of Homer

The authors of this volume take issue with the idea of a Greek Dark Age and everything it implies for the understanding of Greek history, culture and society. They argue that the period is characterised as much by continuity as disruption and that the evidence ...

Archaeology and the emergence of Greece

Classical archaeology has changed beyond recognition in the past generation, in its aims, its choice of subject-matter and the methods it uses. This book brings together 25 papers by A. M. Snodgrass, some of them previously published only in rather inaccessible places, which have contributed ...

Spectacular power in the greek and roman city

This study of the visible representation of power and prestige, in both Greek and Roman polities of the ancient world, demonstrates the importance of crowds' aesthetic and emotional judgement upon leaders and their ambitious claims for immediate and lasting significance. The spectacular rhetorics of a ...

Historia de Grecia

día a día en la Grecia clásica

Todas las ramas de la ciencia, desde la física a la biología, pasando por la medicina y las matemáticas, han crecido con el aporte fundamental de la sabiduría y el lenguaje griegos. La astronomía conserva la denominación que los antiguos griegos dieron a las estrellas ...

Une éducation grecque

rites de passage et construction des genres dans le roman grec ancien

Le roman grec suscite depuis trente ans un intérêt croissant parmi les spécialistes de l#Antiquité, mais sa légitimité en tant que source historique est encore discutée. Comment en effet extraire des données historiques de fictions en prose qui, composées par des Grecs vivant dans ...

El laberinto del Minotauro

Sir Arthur Evans, el arqueólogo del mito

Sir Arthur Evans (1851-1941) revolucionó los estudios arqueológicos de su tiempo, y la periodización de la historia de la humanidad, a raíz del espectacular descubrimiento a principios del siglo XX del palacio de Knosos, en Creta, que identificó con el laberinto del Minotauro y que ...

The Cambridge companion the hellenist world

This Companion volume offers fifteen original essays on the Hellenistic world and is intended to complement and supplement general histories of the period from Alexander the Great to Kleopatra VII of Egypt. Each chapter treats a different aspect of the Hellenistic world - religion, philosophy, family ...

Democracia y lucha de clases en la Antigüedad

En esta obra el eminente especialista en historia de la Grecia antigua, Arthur Rosenberg, reflexiona, a partir de la historia de Atenas, sobre lo que constituye la esencia y el origen de la democracia. Democracia es el nombre que recibe el régimen que se instaura ...

The greek wars

the failure of Persia

The Greek Wars treats of the whole course of Persian relations with the Greeks from the coming of Cyrus in the 540s down to Alexander the Great's defeat of Darius III in 331 BC. Cawkwell discusses from a Persian perspective major questions such as ...

Myth and thought among the greeks

This is a classic work that rereads questions of "muthos" and "logos" in multifaceted contexts. When Jean-Pierre Vernant first published "Myth and Thought among the Greeks" in 1965, it transformed the field of ancient Greek scholarship, calling forth a new way to think about Greek ...

The captive woman's lament in greek tragedy

The laments of captive women found in extant Athenian tragedy constitute a fundamentally subversive aspect of Greek drama. In performances supported by and intended for the male citizens of Athens, the songs of the captive women at the Dionysia gave a voice to classes who ...

Atlas histórico del mundo griego antiguo

Es evidente que un buen conocimiento histórico requiere que sea ubicado en la comprensión del entorno gráfico en el que han ocurrido los hechos; por ello la necesidad de un atlas que sea de utilidad a cualquier persona interesada en la historia de la Grecia ...