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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 464 páginas
PVP: 29,00 €
ISBN 978-1-4728-4375-3
EAN 9781472843753
The last stand at Thermopylae made the Spartans legends in their own time, famous for their toughness, stoicism and martial prowess - but was this reputation earned? Covering Sparta's full classical history, The Bronze Lie examines the myth of Spartan warrior supremacy. This book paints a very different picture of Spartan warfare - punctuated by ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 17,40 €
ISBN 978-0-86154-051-8
EAN 9780861540518
In Ancient Rome all the best stories have one thing in common - murder. Romulus killed Remus to found the city, Caesar was assassinated to save the Republic, Caligula was butchered in the theatre, Claudius was poisoned at dinner.But what did killing really mean in a city where gladiators fought to the death to sate ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 528 páginas
PVP: 19,85 €
ISBN 978-1-5098-5873-6
EAN 9781509858736
What could be more exciting, more exotic or more intrepid than digging in the sands of Egypt in the hope of discovering golden treasures from the age of the pharaohs?Our fascination with ancient Egypt goes back to the ancient Greeks. But the heyday of Egyptology was undoubtedly the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This golden ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 17,50 €
ISBN 978-0-300-25484-6
EAN 9780300254846
A captivating popular history that shines a light on the notorious Julio-Claudian women who forged an empire Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, and Nero-these are the names history associates with the early Roman Empire. Yet, not a single one of these emperors was the blood son of his predecessor. In this captivating history, a prominent scholar ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 19,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-044448-3
EAN 9780140444483
Augustus Caesar, the first emperor of Rome (27 BC-AD 14), brought peace and prosperity to his city after decades of savage civil war. This selection from Cassius Dio's Roman History gives the fullest description of that long struggle and ultimate triumph - detailing the brutal battles and political feuds that led to the collapse of ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 20,65 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-633-6
EAN 9781781256336
For centuries, Rome was one of the world's largest imperial powers, its influence spread across Europe, North Africa, and the Middle-East, its military force successfully fighting off attacks by the Parthians, Germans, Persians and Goths. Then came the definitive split, the Vandal sack of Rome, and the crumbling of the West from Empire into kingdoms ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 16,50 €
ISBN 978-1-5098-7318-0
EAN 9781509873180
An incisive, inspiring and vitally illuminating account of a city which changed the ancient world and which deserves to be remembered by the modern. A masterful book written by a master historian.' - Bettany Hughes, bestselling author of Istanbul and Helen of Troy Continuously inhabited for five millennia, and at one point the most powerful ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 672 páginas
PVP: 17,85 €
ISBN 978-1-78497-877-8
EAN 9781784978778
Philip and Alexander of Macedon transformed a weak kingdom in northern Greece into a globe-spanning empire. In so doing, they changed the course of history. By the end of his short life, Alexander the Great had eclipsed the power of Persia, crossed the Hindu Kush and marched into what is now Pakistan, redrawing the map ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 484 páginas
PVP: 23,35 €
ISBN 978-93-537-0317-2
EAN 9789353703172
This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. We have represented this book in the same form as it was first published. Hence any marks seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature.
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 256 páginas
PVP: 15,90 €
ISBN 978-0-500-29588-5
EAN 9780500295885
A distinguished team of internationally renowned scholars surveys the great empires from 1600 BC to AD 500, from the ancient Mediterranean to China, in ten comprehensive chapters, taking in the empires of New Kingdom Egypt; the Hittites; Assyria and Babylonia; Achaemenid Persia; Athens; Alexander; Parthian and early Sasanian Persia; Rome; India; and Qin and Han ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 17,10 €
ISBN 978-0-14-044187-1
EAN 9780140441871
A military leader of legendary genius, Caesar was also a great writer, recording the events of his life with incomparable immediacy and power. The Civil War is a tense and gripping depiction of his struggle with Pompey over the leadership of Republican Rome - a conflict that spanned the entire Roman world, from Gaul and ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
ISBN 978-0-674-05563-6
EAN 9780674055636
Praise for the previous edition:"Wry and imaginative, this gem of a book deconstructs the most famous building in Western history."-Benjamin Schwarz, The Atlantic"In her brief but compendious volume [Beard] says that the more we find out about this mysterious structure, the less we know. Her book is especially valuable because it is up to date ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 18,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-388-6
EAN 9781846683886
In 264 BC, a Roman army was poised to cross from southern Italy into Sicily. They couldn't know that this crossing would be Rome's first step on its journey from local republic to vast and powerful empire. At the beginning of the three dramatic centuries that make up this book's narrative, Rome had no emperor ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 208 páginas
PVP: 22,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78914-415-4
EAN 9781789144154
The Sumerians are widely believed to have created the world's earliest civilization on the fertile floodplains of southern Iraq from about 3500 to 2000 BC. They have been credited with the invention of nothing less than cities, writing and the wheel, and therefore hold an ancient mirror to our own urban, literate world. But is ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 352 páginas
PVP: 31,35 €
ISBN 978-0-226-75023-1
EAN 9780226750231
The Roman army was the greatest fighting machine in the ancient world. More than that, it was the single largest organization in Western antiquity, taking in members from all classes, from senators to freed slaves. The Roman Empire depended on its army not just to win its wars, defend its frontiers, and control the seas, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 215 páginas
PVP: 19,10 €
ISBN 978-1-908531-18-6
EAN 9781908531186
Philip the Arab was Roman Emperor from 244 to 249. He came from Syria, and is remembered for negotiating peace with the Sassanid Empire shortly before Rome came to celebrate its millennium. Among early Christian writers Philip had the reputation of being sympathetic to the Christian faith and it has even been claimed by some ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 336 páginas
PVP: 33,50 €
ISBN 978-1-5098-7316-6
EAN 9781509873166
'An incisive, inspiring and vitally illuminating account of a city which changed the ancient world and which deserves to be remembered by the modern. A masterful book written by a master historian.'Bettany Hughes, bestselling author of Istanbul and Helen of Troy. Continuously inhabited for five millennia, and at one point the most powerful city in ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 14,70 €
ISBN 978-1-78649-894-6
EAN 9781786498946
In this compelling tour of the classical world, Peter Jones reveals how it is the power, scope and fascination of their ideas that makes the Ancient Greeks and Romans so important and influential today. For over 2,000 years these ideas have gripped Western imagination and been instrumental in the way we think about the world. ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 336 páginas
PVP: 20,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78607-814-8
EAN 9781786078148
It should have been a beautiful moment between a man and his dog. Philip Womack made a quip about Cerberus, the three-headed hell-hound, but for Una, the beloved lurcher, it was all Greek. Then she ran off after a squirrel.And Womack was left to wonder what else she didn't know about the great civilisations of ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 264 páginas
PVP: 45,00 €
ISBN 978-0-500-29529-8
EAN 9780500295298
For centuries the beguiling ancient ruins of Egypt have provided an endless source of fascination for explorers, antiquarians, treasure hunters and archaeologists. All, from the very earliest travellers, were entranced by the beauty and majesty of the landscape: the remains of tombs cut into the natural rock of hillsides and the temples and cities gently ...
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