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- Penguin UK, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 544 páginas
PVP: 18,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-045564-9
EAN 9780140455649
Tacitus' Annals recounts the major historical events from the years shortly before the death of Augustus to the death of Nero in AD 68. With clarity and vivid intensity Tacitus describes the reign of terror under the corrupt Tiberius, the great fire of Rome during the time of Nero and the wars, poisonings, scandals, conspiracies ...
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- Princeton, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 28,05 €
ISBN 978-0-691-15635-4
EAN 9780691156354
Prevalent among classicists today is the notion that Greeks, Romans, and Jews enhanced their own self-perception by contrasting themselves with the so-called Other--Egyptians, Phoenicians, Ethiopians, Gauls, and other foreigners--frequently through hostile stereotypes, distortions, and caricature. In this provocative book, Erich Gruen demonstrates how the ancients found connections rather than contrasts, how they expressed admiration for ...
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- Taylor & Francis, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 314 páginas
PVP: 58,20 €
ISBN 978-0-415-51105-6
EAN 9780415511056
Scholars of classical history and literature have for more than a century accepted initiation' as a tool for understanding a variety of obscure rituals and myths, ranging from the ancient Greek wedding and adolescent haircutting rituals to initiatory motifs or structures in Greek myth, comedy and tragedy. In this books an international group of experts ...
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Babylon
Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization
- Atlantic Books, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 17,95 €
ISBN 978-1-84887-157-1
EAN 9781848871571
In Babylon, Paul Kriwaczek tells the story of ancient Mesopotamia from the earliest settlements around 5400 BC, to the eclipse of Babylon by the Persians in the sixth century BC. He chronicles the rise and fall of dynastic power during this period; he examines its numerous material, social and cultural innovations and inventions: The wheel, ...
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- Wordsworth, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 7,25 €
ISBN 978-1-85326-499-3
EAN 9781853264993
Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, published between 1776 and 1788, is the undisputed masterpiece of English historical writing which can only perish with the language itself. Its length alone is a measure of its monumental quality: seventy-one chapters, of which twenty-eight appear in full in this edition. With style, learning and wit, ...
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The struggle between Rome and Carthage in the Punic Wars was arguably the greatest and most desperate conflict of antiquity. The forces involved and the casualties suffered by both sides were far greater than in any wars fought before the modern era, while the eventual outcome had far-reaching consequences for the history of the Western ...
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- Routledge, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 436 páginas
PVP: 42,85 €
ISBN 978-0-415-55979-9
EAN 9780415559799
The Roman World 44 BC - AD 180 deals with the transformation of the Mediterranean regions, northern Europe and the Near East by the military autocrats who ruled Rome during this period. The book traces the impact of imperial politics on life in the city of Rome itself and in the rest of the empire, ...
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- Penguin Books Ltd, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-045553-3
EAN 9780140455533
Cicero (106-43BC) was the most brilliant orator in Classical history. Even one of the men who authorized his assassination, the Emperor Octavian, admitted to his grandson that Cicero was: 'an eloquent man, my boy, eloquent and a lover of his country'. This new selection of speeches illustrates Cicero's fierce loyalty to the Roman Republic, giving ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 672 páginas
PVP: 25,50 €
ISBN 978-1-4088-1002-6
EAN 9781408810026
The story of Ancient Egypt and the extraordinary civilisation that flourished along the banks of the River Nile can seem like a gorgeous pageant studded with exceptional events. Among them are the building of the pyramids, the conquest of Nubia, Akhenaten's religious revolution, the power and beauty of Nefertiti, the life and death of Tutankhamun, ...
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- Phoenix, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 576 páginas
PVP: 21,70 €
ISBN 978-0-7538-2863-2
EAN 9780753828632
The love affair between Antony and Cleopatra is one of the most famous stories from the ancient world, and has been depicted in countless novels, plays and films. As one of the three men in control of the Roman Empire, Antony was perhaps the most powerful man of his day; while Cleopatra, who had already ...
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Price, Simon; Thonemann, Peter
The Birth of Classical Europe
A History from Troy to Augustine
- Penguin UK, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 398 páginas
PVP: 28,95 €
ISBN 978-0-14-027485-1
EAN 9780140274851
To an extraordinary extent we continue to live in the shadow of the classical world. At every level from languages to calendars to political systems, we are the descendants of a 'classical Europe', using frames of reference created by ancient Mediterranean cultures.As this consistently fresh and surprising new book makes clear, however, this was no ...
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- Yale University Press, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 480 páginas
PVP: 27,20 €
ISBN 978-0-300-17086-3
EAN 9780300170863
In this magnificent book, distinguished archaeologist Barry Cunliffe reframes our entire conception of early European history, from prehistory through the ancient world to the medieval Viking period. Cunliffe views Europe not in terms of states and shifting political land boundaries but as a geographical niche particularly favored in facing many seas. These seas, and Europe's ...
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- Osprey, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 96 páginas
PVP: 25,00 €
ISBN 978-1-84908-313-3
EAN 9781849083133
When the Romans occupied the southern half of Britain in AD 43, the Iceni tribe quickly allied themselves with the invaders. Having paid tribute to Rome, they continued to be ruled by their own kings. But 17 years later when Prasutagus, the king of the Iceni, died the Romans decided to incorporate his kingdom into ...
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Carthage must be Destroyed
The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Civilization
- Penguin UK, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 544 páginas
PVP: 24,60 €
ISBN 978-0-14-101809-6
EAN 9780141018096
The devastating struggle to the death between the Carthaginians and the Romans was one of the defining dramas of the Ancient World. In an epic series of land and sea battles both sides came close to victory before the Carthaginians finally buckled and their capital city, history and culture were almost utterly erased. The last ...
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- Osprey, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 96 páginas
PVP: 25,00 €
ISBN 978-1-84603-581-4
EAN 9781846035814
Quintilius Varus, give me back my legions!' supposedly yelled Augustus Caesar when he received the news of the disaster in the Teutoburg Forest. One of the greatest military disasters of the Roman Empire, Teutoburg Forest witnessed the near-total annihilation of three Roman legions at the hands of the German barbarians led by their Roman-educated chief ...
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The Hammer and the Cross
A New History of the Vikings
- Penguin UK, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 480 páginas
PVP: 15,90 €
ISBN 978-0-14-101775-4
EAN 9780141017754
For those living outside Scandinavia, the Viking Age effectively began in 793 with an attack on the monastery at Lindisfarne, a characteristically violent harbinger of what was in store for Britain and much of Europe from the Vikings for the next 300 years, until the final destruction of the heathen temple to the Norse gods ...
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Pompeii
The Life of a Roman Town
- Profile Books, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-471-5
EAN 9781846684715
WINNER OF THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE 2008 'The world's most controversial classicist debunks our movie-style myths about the Roman town with meticulous scholarship and propulsive energy' Laura Silverman, Daily Mail The ruins of Pompeii, buried by an explosion of Vesuvius in 79 CE, offer the best evidence we have of everyday life in the Roman ...
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