Rómulo, Escipión, Cayo Mario, Augusto o Adriano… Las biografías de estos personajes son fundamentales para conocer cuáles fueron los cambios que se produjeron en la antigua Roma.
Cruzadas, templarios, el Santo Grial, la piedra filosofal, grandes batallas, hermetismo, astrología y ciencia… un riguroso y actualizado análisis de los grandes misterios y enigmas medievales.
"Te esperaré, hermana", escribió, de su puño y letra, Claudia Severa a su amiga Sulpicia Lepidina, en la invitación a la celebración de su cumpleaños en un fuerte perdido junto al muro de Adriano.
La visión tradicional del último siglo de la República romana, deudora de la obra de contemporáneos como Salustio o Cicerón, es el de un periodo de caótica entropía, en el que políticos sin escrúpulos sumieron al Estado en una violenta espiral de autodestrucción.
Adrienne Mayor, autora de obras como Mitrídates el Grande, Amazonas o Fuego griego, flechas envenenadas y escorpionesse atreve ahora con la fascinante y jamás contada historia de cómo el mundo antiguo imaginórobots y otras formas de vida artificial, e incluso de cómo inventó autómatas.
Jacob Burckhardts Werk "Griechische Kulturgeschichte" ist ein faszinierender Einblick in die Geschichte und Entwicklung der antiken griechischen Kultur.
This is the fascinating story of the greatest archeological discoveries ever, the discovery of the intact tomb of the 18th Dynasty Pharaoh, Tutankhamun (colloquially known as "e;King Tut"e; and "e;the boy king"e;), in November 1922.
Dieses eBook: "Mit Feuer und Schwert: Historischer Roman" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen.
Contents: PrehistoryEarly Middle Eastern and Northeast African CivilizationsAncient and Early Medieval IndiaChina and East Asia to the Ming DynastyThe Greek World from the Bronze Age to the Roman ConquestThe Roman World from 753 BCE to 500 CEWestern Europe and Byzantium circa 500 - 1000 CEIslam to the MamluksAfrican History to 1500The AmericasCentral AsiaWestern Europe and Byzantium circa 1000 - 1500 CE
The edition is designed to supply complete account of Ancient Egypt, combining its antiquities with its history, specifically pointing out the way of the Egyptian life - manners, customs, art, science, literature and religion.
Dieses eBook: "Geschichte der Kriegskunst im Rahmen der politischen Geschichte" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen.
The work offered here was designed to supply complete account of Ancient Egypt, combining its antiquities with its history, specifically pointing out the way of the Egyptian life - manners, customs, art, science, literature and religion.
Die griechische Mythologie umfasst die Gesamtheit der antiken griechischen Mythen, also der Geschichten der Götter und Helden (Heroen) des antiken Griechenlands.
Dieses eBook: "Historische Romane aus dem alten Ägypten: Kleopatra + Die Nilbraut + Der Kaiser + Eine ägyptische Königstochter + Homo sum + Serapis + Uarda und mehr" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen.
El horizonte que separa el espacio empírico —visible y abarcable— de un imaginario lleno de peligros, riquezas y seres fantásticos, ha representado durante siglos la frontera más difícil de franquear que haya trazado la mente humana.
Los nueve libros de la Historia, redactados en dialecto jonio y escritos en plena madurez de Heródoto, son uno de los testimonios más reveladores del mundo griego y de los pueblos que lo constituían.
La ciudad de Ur, donde tuvo asiento una gran cultura, ha sido objeto de numerosas exploraciones e investigaciones, de las cuales la más importante por sus resultados extraordinarios ha sido la que dirigió, entre 1922 y 1929, precisamente sir C.
Lysistrata Aristophanes - Greek playwright, Aristophanes, lived during the 5th and 4th century BC and is considered one of the principal authors of the Greek classical period.
In recent years a reawakening has taken place in the study of American archaeology and antiquities, owing chiefly to the labours of a band of scholars in the United States and a few enthusiasts in the continent of Europe.
If we were asked to name the most interesting country in the world, I suppose that most people would say Palestine-not because there is anything so very wonderful in the land itself, but because of all the great things that have happened there, and above all because of its having been the home of our Lord.
The condition of the Roman Emperors has never yet been fully appreciated; nor has it been sufficiently perceived in what respects it was absolutely unique.
Two thousand five hundred and fifty-eight years ago a little fleet of galleys toiled painfully against the current up the long strait of the Hellespont, rowed across the broad Propontis, and came to anchor in the smooth waters of the first inlet which cuts into the European shore of the Bosphorus.
The period of Roman history on which we now enter is, like so many that had preceded it, a period of revolt, directly aimed against the existing conditions of society and, through the means taken to satisfy the fresh wants and to alleviate the suddenly realised, if not suddenly created, miseries of the time, indirectly affecting the structure of the body politic.
My purpose in the following pages has been to analyze, so far as the fragmentary sources permit, the precise influences that urged the Roman republic toward territorial expansion.
THERE WAS A TIME, NOT so very long ago, when the taunt was true that history was written as if it were a mere string of anecdotal biographies of great men.
SOME men are renowned in history on account of the extraordinary powers and capacities which they exhibited in the course of their career, or the intrinsic greatness of the deeds which they performed.
Two thousand five hundred and fifty-eight years ago a little fleet of galleys toiled painfully against the current up the long strait of the Hellespont, rowed across the broad Propontis, and came to anchor in the smooth waters of the first inlet which cuts into the European shore of the Bosphorus.
