Alejandro

Salt and olives

morality and custom in Ancient Greece

From Ikaria to the stars

classical mythification, Ancient and Modern

The ancient Olimpics

The word 'athletics' is derived from the Greek verb 'to struggle/suffer for a prize'. After reading this book, no one will see the Olympics as a graceful display of Greek beauty again, but as war by other means. Nigel Spivey paints a portrait of ...

Todos los dioses de Grecia

Ancient rethoric and oratory

El mundo de los antiguos griegos

nuevo y contrastado estudio sobre la historia y la cultura de la Antigua Grecia

Hipatia de Alejandría

La catedrática de historia romana antigua en la Universidad Jagelónica de Cracovia, María Dzielska, nos invita en este libro a dar un salto en el espacio y en el tiempo. Dzielska nos retrotrae a la Alejandría de los día de Hipatia, una matemática brillante, neoplatónica ...

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

monnayages et histoire

La lontananza dei Greci

Ce qui fait la Grèce

Séminaires 1982-1983 (La création Humaine, 2).T. 1: D'Homère à Héraclite

Las experiencias de Tiresias

(lo masculino y lo femenino en el mundo griego)

Al principio, los historiadores creyeron en el «milagro griego», espejismo de una civilización de luz implacable, filosofía abstracta, figuración geométrica. Más tarde, descubrieron una Grecia de contrastes, trabajada por la polaridad, por las oposiciones entre cultura y naturaleza, entre Ciudad y barbarie, entre varón-ciudadano y ...

Therapeia

la medicina popular en el mundo clásico

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

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 ...

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 ...