1,400円 "Contra el olvido, los nombres de los héroes perduran en la red imaginaria de la mitología, y en la literatura que se alimenta de sus historias y recuenta sus hazañas con nuevos acentos". En la mitología griega, la vida de los héroes (Ulises, Jasón, Teseo, Hércules…) es casi siempre un ejemplo de...

295円 PRÉFACE DE L’AUTEUR Je ne doute pas, Atticus[1], que la plupart de mes lecteurs ne jugent cet ouvrage frivole et trop peu digne de si grands personnages, lorsqu’ils y liront le nom du maître de musique d’Épaminondas et qu’ils me verront compter au nombre de ses talents sa grâce à danser[2] ...

562円 You know a lot about the Ancient Greece because of the writings of philosophers. But did you know that military personnel also helped to make Ancient Greece one of the most successful early civilizations in history? One of the most popular in this aspect is Alexander the Great. Who was he and wha...

562円 How many of these famous Greek philosophers do you know? Each of these fifteen gave a great contribution to history. Not only did they work on numbers, they also molded societies, cultures, philosophies and beliefs. The philosophers may have died many years ago but their brilliance still shines u...

562円 Any society won't be fun without its monsters. In Ancient Greece, that sure wasn't the case! The Greeks were very imaginative and they created characters to inspire them in everything that they do. Their stories have been passed on from one generation to the next, carrying truths about beliefs, t...

404円 YOU have heard of Homer, and of the two wonderful poems, the Iliad and the Odyssey, which bear his name. No one knows whether these poems were composed by Homer, or whether they are the work of many different poets. And, in fact, it matters very little about their authorship. Everybody agrees tha...

562円 Yes, the Ancient Greeks thought of women as second-class citizens but they also acknowledged the importance of the females. You can see a lot of literature pointing to how women were revered in ancient times. Ancient Greece was a society a lot more open-minded and progressive than any other civil...

2,647円 A major new history of classical Greeceーhow it rose, how it fell, and what we can learn from it Lord Byron described Greece as great, fallen, and immortal, a characterization more apt than he knew. Through most of its long history, Greece was poor. But in the classical era, Greece was densely po...

310円 Jacob Burckhardts Werk "Griechische Kulturgeschichte" ist ein faszinierender Einblick in die Geschichte und Entwicklung der antiken griechischen Kultur. In seinem Buch beleuchtet er nicht nur die politische und gesellschaftliche Struktur Griechenlands, sondern auch die Kunst, Philosophie und Lite...

4,112円 Men of Bronze takes up one of the most important and fiercely debated subjects in ancient history and classics: how did archaic Greek hoplites fight, and what role, if any, did hoplite warfare play in shaping the Greek polis? In the nineteenth century, George Grote argued that the phalanx battle ...

3,045円 A lively and accessible introduction to the Greek and Roman origins of our political ideas In The Birth of Politics, Melissa Lane introduces the reader to the foundations of Western political thought, from the Greeks, who invented democracy, to the Romans, who created a republic and then transfor...

526円 Hérodote, né vers 484 ou 482 av. J.-C. à Halicarnasse (une cité grecque située sur le territoire des Cariens), actuellement Bodrum (Turquie), mort vers 420 av. J.-C. à Thourioi, est un historien grec. Il a été surnommé le « père de l'Histoire » par Cicéron (les Lois, I, 1), mais aussi du reportag...