Títulos em Antiga

Using a wide variety of source materials, including archaeology, runes, Icelandic sagas, early law, place names, personal names, and not least etymological and semantic analyses of the terminology of slaves, Thraldom provides the most comprehensive survey of slavery in the Viking Age.

Este libro le proporcionará detalles sobre la época en que reinaron los vikingos. Aprenderá cómo vivía el pueblo escandinavo, quiénes navegaban en las incursiones vikingas, las armas utilizadas en la batalla y sus creencias religiosas.

Ocean is an ambitious history of the pre-Columbian Atlantic Ocean, a story that begins with the formation of the mid-Atlantic ridge some 200 million years ago and ends with the Castilian conquest of the Canary Islands in the fifteenth century, which provided a template for the methods used by the Spanish in their colonisation of the New World.

Der Erzähler dieses Romans Aus der Triumphgasse (veröffentlicht im Jahr 1902), der Patrizier Hugo von Belwatsch, betritt erstmals sein Haus in der Triester Triumphgasse, wo Angehörige der ärmsten Bevölkerungsschichten hausen und wo Not, Elend und Verbrechen herrschen, um ausstehende Mietbeträge einzutreiben. Bei der Begegnung mit den Mietern fühlt der junge Mann zunächst Abscheu und Entsetzen, aber auch Faszination und Anteilnahme. Er erfährt etwas über die Schicksale, Leidenschaften und Sehnsüchte der Menschen des Armenviertels. Regie: Arno Haupt. Ricarda Huch (1864-1947) war eine deutsche Schriftstellerin.

Stiamo lasciando volontariamente aperte le porte della nostra civiltà ai barbari, dimenticando le nostre radici greche e romane? O forse siamo noi i barbari, quando utilizziamo il nostro passato per giustificare il peggio della nostra civiltà? Ecco un piccolo "libro nero" sull’uso politico dell’antichità, che ci aiuta a comprendere cosa c’è di vivo e cosa c’è di morto nel nostro legame con i Greci e i Romani. L’insegnamento dei classici greci e latini è certo un antidoto efficace alla barbarie dei nostri tempi. Giusto?

Una originale biografia della regina egizia Cleopatra che riuscì a diventare un personaggio storico e letterario grazie alla sua intelligenza e alle sue doti personali di donna dal grande fascino e astuzia.

In the nineteenth century, historians began to classify the periods of human prehistory into three ages: Stone, Bronze, and Iron. Of these three, the period known as the Bronze Age (lasting approximately from 3300 to 1200 BCE) was the most significant, not just because people began to work metal on a large scale for the first time but because of other changes taking place. People started to live in large, permanent sites that became the first cities. Agriculture replaced hunting and gathering as the principal means of producing food.

When Gareth Harney was first handed a Roman coin by his father as a child, he became entranced by its beauty, and its unique ability to connect us with the distant past. He soon learned that the Romans saw coins as far more than just currency—these were metal canvases on which they immortalized their sacred gods, mighty emperors, towering monuments, and brutal battles of conquest. Revealed in those intricate designs struck in gold, silver, and bronze was the epic story of the Roman Empire.

L’Impero romano è a pezzi, diviso in tre parti. I barbari saccheggiano impunemente le sue città e province, le pestilenze falcidiano la sua popolazione, l’inflazione galoppante distrugge la sua economia. Un imperatore debole siede nella sua capitale in Nord Italia, sempre più impotente di fronte alle tempeste della storia. Dei capi semibarbari sono pronti a rimpiazzarlo con un colpo di Stato militare. Il grande regno dei Cesari pare destinato al tramonto.

The book Before War will change how its listeners look at the world by exposing the female roots of Western civilization. It draws on the evidence from anthropology, archaeology, linguistics, primatology, and the shocking new genetics data, to tell the story of Western civilization. For listeners of Sapiens and The Dawn of Everything, this is about another way that our European ancestors lived, without violence, sexual shame, or social inequality. Its the story of a story that was buried and re-discovered again and again, and is once again being told, thanks to the new science of genetics.

Al principio, el Homo sapiens era solo una de las especies humanas del mundo. Tras siglos de coexistencia, fue el único superviviente. ¿Cómo ocurrió? Este fascinante libro sobre el Homo sapiens desvela los secretos de nuestra especie y lo que nos hizo humanos. Desde sus humildes comienzos en los albores de la prehistoria, el Homo sapiens se elevó hasta convertirse en una de las especies más resistentes del mundo.

La Grecia che abbiamo imparato a conoscere e ad amare dall’epica, dalla tragedia, dalla storia è ricchissima di straordinarie figure di giovani uomini e giovani donne. Achille è l’eroe che a una vita lunga e incolore preferì la brevità di un’esistenza spezzata ma piena di gloria. Gli fa da contraltare il mite Telemaco: il figlio obbediente che vive nell’ombra di un padre mai conosciuto. E c’è Antigone, la vergine che, in un fragoroso assolo, osa levare la sua voce di dissenso. E Oreste, il figlio che uccide la madre per dare giustizia al padre. Fin qui il mito.

Già sotto l’alto principato inizia a operare una struttura nuova che si pone accanto al senato e al Foro. Gli antichi la chiamavano aula Caesaris, corte, vale a dire apparato di familiari, amici, personale, intellettuali che gravitano intorno al principe. È qui che si colgono le trasformazioni più grandi: l’integrazione fra principato e nobiltà; l’ascesa di ceti emergenti in concorrenza con la mobilità del senato; la nuova elaborazione politica e ideologica fra vecchie figure che assumono nuove forme e nuove figure che si vengono costruendo; la formazione e lo sviluppo dell’apparato amministrativo dell’impero.

In The Buried City, the director of Pompeii, Gabriel Zuchtriegel takes us on a behind-the-scenes tour of the city and reveals the new artefacts and remains that are now being unearthed in the biggest dig of the site in a generation. He reconstructs Pompeii as it would have been, revealing who lived here, what mattered to them and what happened in their final hours, while also reflecting on our role as keepers of this heritage.

The ancient world was full of many fantastic cities and places, and like today’s major cities, the great ancient cities were hubs of trade, religion, and science. Writing was first invented in ancient cities, and many important scientific discoveries were also made in them, some of which are still used in the modern world. Among the many cities of the ancient world, Rome and Athens may come to mind first, but the city of Babylon in the land of Mesopotamia was already an ancient, venerated city when the others were still inconsequential settlements.

As the planet emerged from the last ice age, a language was born between Europe and Asia, by the Black Sea. This ancient tongue, which we call Proto-Indo-European, soon exploded out of its cradle, changing and fragmenting as it went, until its offspring were spoken from Scotland to China. Today those descendants constitute the world’s largest language family, the thread that connects disparate cultures: Dante’s Inferno to the Rig Veda, The Lord of the Rings to the love poetry of Rumi. Indo-European languages are spoken by nearly half of humanity. How did this happen?

In 89 A.D., following a failed insurrection by the governor of Upper Germania, the disgraced Legio XXI Rapax is dispatched to Pannonia, on the River Danube. The legion is purged of its senior officers and Emperor Domitian appoints the venerable Lucius Flavius Silva as the new commanding legate. A revered general, Silva famously captured the Herodian Fortress of Masada at the end of the Great Jewish Revolt, twenty years earlier.

Hoy en día, Persia es conocida como el país de Irán, pero hace mucho tiempo, Persia fue el hogar de varias tribus nómadas. Fue testigo del ascenso de muchos imperios y dinastías. Los asirios cayeron ante los medos, que allanaron el camino para la aparición del Imperio aqueménida, uno de los mayores imperios de la historia antigua.

Imagine a history so profound, it reshapes everything we thought we knew about the origins of civilization. Great Water reveals a new narrative that turns the spotlight away from ancient Egypt, the Fertile Crescent, and southeast Asia, directing it instead towards the Great Lakes region of North America, where evidence suggests that metal technology first emerged around 10,000 years ago. This story follows an unexpected journey into the heart of prehistoric North America, where ancient copper mines around Lake Superior bear silent witness to a long-lost history of indigenous metal use.

Writer, activist and journalist Joan Smith has worked for years to raise awareness of violence against women and girls, and has been instrumental in bringing the innate misogyny of the police to public attention. Unfortunately, She Was a Nymphomaniac reinterprets the bloody, violent story of twenty-three women closely associated with the Julio-Claudian emperors of Rome. Fewer than half a dozen of them can be said with any confidence to have died of natural causes.