Ancient

Although the historicity of Sun Tzu is today in dispute, his short treatise on the art of war has remained a pre-eminent classic of military philosophy and practice....

The past truly comes alive as you take a series of imaginative leaps into the world of history's anonymous citizens....

Here, you will meet the fascinating, ancient polytheistic peoples of the Mediterranean and beyond, their many gods and goddesses, and their public and private worship practices, as you come to appreciate the foundational role religion played in their lives....

Here in a single volume is the entire, unabridged recording of Gibbon's masterpiece....

Do you know how many wives Zeus had? Or how the famous Trojan War was caused by one beautiful lady? Or how Thor got his hammer? Give your imagination a real treat. This Mega Mythology Collection of eight audiobooks is for you....

From Paleolithic flax to 3D knitting, explore the global history of textiles and the world they weave together in this enthralling and educational guide....

From Graham Hancock, best-selling author of Fingerprints of the Gods, comes a mesmerizing book that takes us on a captivating underwater voyage to find the ruins of a lost civilization that's been hidden for thousands of years beneath the world's oceans....

A New York Times-bestselling historian charts how and why societies from ancient Greece to the modern era chose to utterly destroy their foes, and warns that similar wars of obliteration are possible in our time....

Bronze Age Pervert explains that ancient man had something you have lost: confidence in his instincts and strength, knowledge in his blood. BAP shows how the Bronze Age mind-set can set you free and help you embark on the path of power....

Procopius appeared to be a loyal part of the Byzantine establishment, his official writing glorifying the deeds of the Emperor Justinian (d. AD 565). However, he also produced a work that he knew could never be published within the Emperor’s lifetime: The Secret History....

For eons, the wisdom cultivated by the Egyptian people has been extolled time and time again. These timeless myths are fountains of insight and, many would argue, beacons of light that can shatter the darkness of ignorance. Listen to learn more....

The Ottoman Empire was one of the longest standing empires in the world. Started in 1299, the Ottomans would conquer much of the Middle East, North Africa, and Southeastern Europe. This classic by William Deans covers 600 years of Ottoman rule....

Why did humans abandon hunting and gathering for sedentary communities dependent on livestock and cereal grains and governed by precursors of today's states? Find out....

In this electrifying social and intellectual history, Paula Fredriksen answers the question of how Jewish missionaries ended up inaugurating a movement that would grow into the gentile church by reconstructing the life of the earliest Jerusalem community....

Here Durant tells the whole story of Greece from the days of Crete's vast Aegean empire to the final extirpation of the last remnants of Greek liberty, crushed under the heel of forward-marching Rome....

What can we learn from the stunning rise and mysterious death of the ancient world’s greatest conqueror? An acclaimed biographer reconstructs the life of Alexander the Great in this magisterial revisionist portrait....

The Gallic War is Julius Caesar's autobiographical diary of the wars in what is now France, Belgium, and parts of Britain, Germany, and Switzerland, in which he describes the battles that took place from 58 to 51 BCE when he fought the Germanic and Celtic peoples....

This kaleidoscopic book covers almost 3,000 years of Arab history and shines a light on the footloose Arab peoples and tribes who conquered lands and disseminated their language and culture over vast distances....

The great legacy of The Iliad is its shattering revelation of what it means to be human in the face of life's uncertainty and fleeting mortality....

In this second volume of The Masks of God - Joseph Campbell’s major work of comparative mythology - the preeminent mythologist looks at Asian mythology as it developed over the course of five thousand years into the distinctive religions of Egypt, Mesopotamia, India, China, and Japan....

Captured centaurs and satyrs, incompetent seers, people who suddenly change sex, a woman who remembers too much, a man who cannot laugh—these are just some of the colorful characters who feature in the unforgettable stories that ancient Greeks and Romans told in their daily lives....

A groundbreaking dive into the role psychedelics have played in the origins of Western civilization, and the real-life quest for the Holy Grail that could shake the Church to its foundations....

These lectures consistently deliver a fresh level of understanding about medieval England, its rulers and subjects, and their significance....

Avida, sanguinaria, assetata di potere, ma insieme intelligentissima, seducente e colta. Chi era davvero Cleopatra? Questo libro restituisce verità storica...

Plutarch (c. AD 46-AD 120) was born to a prominent family in the small Greek town of Chaeronea, about 20 miles east of Delphi in the region known as Boeotia....

Henry Mulford Tichenor (1858 - 1922) was a writer and journalist, who was a very active free thinker in the early Twentieth Century. A special target of Tichenor was organized religion, which he viewed as an absurdly contrived cultural artefact. In The Olympian Gods he applies a critical scalpel to the religion of the ancient Greeks, which he regarded as an obvious precursor to Christianity.

The Book of the Dead is the name for the ancient Egyptian funerary text, which was a description of the old Egyptian conception of the afterlife. It is a collection of hymns, spells, and instructions to allow the deceased to overcome obstacles in the afterlife.

"Dovevo fare i conti prima o poi con Nerone. Lo avevo già affrontato di lato, semplificandolo nel male, similmente a come si tende sempre più a fare semplificandolo nel bene", confessa Andrea Carandini. Chi si è occupato di Roma antica non può evitare di confrontarsi con quell’uragano che è stato Nerone. Per interpretare una personalità del passato romano fuori misura, come quella di Nerone, occorre con una parte di sé entrare nella sua logica, mentre con l’altra avversarla, evitando la soluzione facile e deludente del tiranno democratico e individuando i modelli a cui s’ispirava.

Avida, sanguinaria, assetata di potere, ma insieme intelligentissima, seducente e colta. Chi era davvero Cleopatra? Questo libro restituisce verità storica alla straordinaria figura dell'ultima e più famosa regina della dinastia tolemaica. La vita di Cleopatra ci parla dei rapporti tra Roma e l'Egitto; ci porta a ripercorrere le storie d'amore e di politica intrecciate con Giulio Cesare e con Antonio. Rappresenta, infine, un punto di vista privilegiato per ripercorrere i principali eventi accaduti nel I secolo a.C. su tutti i paesi affacciati sul Mediterraneo, e in parte dell'Asia.

Julius Caesar was one of the most ambitious and successful politicians of the late Roman Republic and his short but bloody conquest of the Celtic tribes led to the establishment of the Roman province of Gaul (modern France). Caesar's commentaries on his Gallic Wars provide us with the most detailed surviving eyewitness account of a campaign from antiquity. In this book, respected Roman military historian Kate Gilliver makes use of this account and other surviving evidence to consider the importance of the Gallic Wars.

Roma İmparatoru Konstantin'in kurduğu Yeni Roma (İstanbul), Anadolu'nun dini ve kültürel dönüşümünde önemli bir rol oynamıştır. Anadolu bundan böyle 'Boğaz'ın kıyısındaki bu kentin bir hinterlandı haline gelecektir. II. Teodosius'un iki katı büyüttüğü; Jüstinyen'in, görkemli kiliseler, saraylar ve bir hipodrom inşa ettirdiği İstanbul, zamanın en büyük, en gösterişli, en cazip kenti, "Kentlerin Kraliçesi" haline gelir; Lombarlar, Avarlar, Slavlar ve Sasanilerin saldırılarına karşı koyar.

Bugünkü Batı medeniyeti kökenlerini büyük ölçüde Anadolu topraklarında M.Ö. 1200’den sonra gerçekleşen kültür gelişmelerine borçlu olduğuna göre, kültür mirasımızın Akdeniz ve Ege kökenleri, aslında Avrupa ile paylaştığımız ortak bir mirası ifade ediyor. Son zamanlarda, Avrupa’nın çeşitli ülkelerinde, halkın kökenlerini araştırma arzusu ve merakı yaygın hale gelmiştir. Batılı insanların “Biz nereden geldik? Aslımız nedir?” sorularına cevap arayış gayretleri içinde karşılarına çıkan destan ve efsaneler arasında bilimsel çalışmalarla doğrulanmasını bekledikleri öykülerin sayısı giderek artıyor.

M.Ö. 12’nci yüzyılın başlarından sonra gerçekleşen Ege göçleri nedeniyle Anadolu yüzünü politika ve kültür alanlarında Batı’ya çevirir ve Roma Devrinin sonuna kadar Batı dünyasının atmosferi içinde yaşar. Herodot Batı Anadolu’da, Lidya’da oturan Etrüsklerin bir kıtlık felâketi nedeniyle İtalya’ya göç ettiklerini anlatır. Gene Herodot’un anlattığı son Lidya kralı Krezüs’ün hazineleri masalı, muhtemelen Lidyalıların madeni sikkeleri icat etmekle, dünya tarihine yaptıkları katkıdan kaynaklanmaktadır.

11'inci13'üncü yüzyıl Gürcü tarih yazarları, anlattıkları olayların görgü tanığı veya katılımcısı olmuşlardır. "Kurucu David'in Tarihi" adlı eserin yazarı, Malazgirt savaşından sonra, 1073 yılında Bizans'la Selçuklular arasında gerçekleştirilmiş olan barış anlaşmasının özellikle, Gürcistan için önem taşıdığını, Selçukluların komşuluğu ve aralıksız saldırıları sonucunda Anadolu'daki devletlerin güçten düşmesinden dolayı Gürcistan'ın hiçbir yerden yardım bekleyemediğini bildirir.

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?

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.

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.

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.

Современная Древняя Греция – книга, которая окажется не только ценным пособием для студентов-историков, но также станет надежным проводником в мир легендарных событий прошлого, отголоски которого оставили глубокий след в мире современном. Ведь именно история является ключом к пониманию того настоящего, в котором мы живем.

The study of ancient Greek history has been central to the western conception of history since the Renaissance. The Muse of History traces the shifting patterns of this preoccupation in the last three centuries, in which each generation has reinterpreted the Greeks in the light of their contemporary world, through times of revolution, conflicting ideologies and warfare. It aims to offer a new history of Greek historiography from the Enlightenment to the present, and to acknowledge the continuing spiritual importance of the ancient Greeks for European culture.