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One Tiny Bubble: The Story of Our Last Universal Common Ancestor
By Karen Krossing. 2022
Les Grecques: destins de femmes en Grèce antique (L'Histoire)
By Aurélie Damet. 2023
Dix-huit récits de vies de femmes en Grèce antique témoignent de leur rôle dans des domaines aussi variés que la…
transmission de la citoyenneté, les transactions financières, le service des dieux, la pratique médicale, l'intendance des gymnases, la vente au détail ou l'ascèse philosophique, sans occulter les difficultés inhérentes à l'omniprésence de structures sociales patriarcales.Les guerres puniques
By Bernard Combet Farnoux. 1967
Les Étrusques (Que sais-je? #645)
By Raymond Bloch. 1968
La louve allaitant au bord du Tibre les deux jumeaux dont l'un va fonder la ville de Rome, les Sabines…
se jetant au mi-lieu de la bataille où s'affrontent leurs pères et leurs maris, le fondateur de la République Brutus appelant ses compatriotes à la révolte en brandissant le poignard dont Lucrèce, violée par le fils du tyran Tarquin le Superbe, vient de se percer le sein, toutes ces scènes hautes en couleurs, c'est Tite-Live qui nous les a rendues familières. Mais le premier des Livres depuis la fondation de Rome n'est pas seulement le merveilleux livre d'images où il fait ressurgir, avec un art consommé, les épisodes fameux de la naissance et des premiers temps de l'histoire de Rome, lorsqu'elle avait des rois à sa tête. C'est aussi l'œuvre de réflexion d'un historien confronté, des siècles avant ses successeurs modernes, à la dimension légendaire et mythique de cette histoire et cherchant à mettre en place les catégories qui lui permettront de l'appréhender.The war that made the Roman Empire: Antony, Cleopatra, and Octavian at Actium
By Barry S Strauss. 2022
The wandering mind: What medieval monks tell us about distraction
By Jamie Kreiner. 2023
The digital era is beset by distraction, and it feels like things are only getting worse. At times like these,…
the distant past beckons as a golden age of attention. We dream of recapturing the quiet of a world with less noise. We imagine retreating into solitude and singlemindedness, almost like latter-day monks. But although we think of early monks as master concentrators, a life of mindfulness did not, in fact, come to them easily. As historian Jamie Kreiner demonstrates in The Wandering Mind, their attempts to stretch the mind out to God-to continuously contemplate the divine order and its ethical requirements-were all-consuming, and their battles against distraction were never-ending. Delving into the experiences of early Christian monks, Kreiner shows that these men and women were obsessed with distraction in ways that seem remarkably modern. Drawing on a trove of sources that the monks left behind, Kreiner reconstructs the techniques they devised in their lifelong quest to master their minds. She captures the fleeting moments of pure attentiveness that some monks managed to grasp, and the many times when monks struggled and failed and went back to the drawing board. Blending history and psychology, The Wandering Mind is a witty, illuminating account of human fallibility and ingenuity that bridges a distant era and our ownEmperor of rome: Ruling the ancient world
By Mary Beard. 2023
In her international bestseller SPQR, Mary Beard told the thousand-year story of ancient Rome, from its slightly shabby Iron Age…
origins to its reign as the undisputed hegemon of the Mediterranean. Now, drawing on more than thirty years of teaching and writing about Roman history, Beard turns to the emperors who ruled the Roman Empire, beginning with Julius Caesar (assassinated 44 BCE) and taking us through the nearly three centuries—and some thirty emperors—that separate him from the boy-king Alexander Severus (assassinated 235 CE). Yet Emperor of Rome is not your typical chronological account of Roman rulers, one emperor after another: the mad Caligula, the monster Nero, the philosopher Marcus Aurelius. Instead, Beard asks different, often larger and more probing questions: What power did emperors actually have? Was the Roman palace really so bloodstained? What kind of jokes did Augustus tell? And for that matter, what really happened between the emperor Hadrian and his beloved Antinous? Effortlessly combining the epic with the quotidian, Beard tracks the emperor down at home, at the races, on his travels, even on his way to heaven. Along the way, Beard explores Roman fictions of imperial power, overturning many of the assumptions we hold as gospel, not the least of them the perception that emperors one and all were orchestrators of extreme brutality and cruelty. Here Beard introduces us to the emperor's wives and lovers, rivals and slaves, court jesters and soldiers, and the ordinary people who pressed begging lettersinto his hand—whose chamber pot disputes were adjudicated by Augustus, and whose budgets were approved by Vespasian, himself the son of a tax collector. With its finely nuanced portrayal of sex, class, and politics, Emperor of Rome goes directly to the heart of Roman fantasies (and our own) about what it was to be Roman at its richest, most luxurious, most extreme, most powerful, and most deadly, offering an account of Roman history as it has never been presented beforeGlobal bestselling author of River God and The New Kingdom , Wilbur Smith, returns with the next epic book in…
his brand-new Ancient Egyptian series. FROM THE RUINS OF BATTLE A HERO MUST RISE FOR THE GLORY OF EGYPT Years of Hyksos rule have seen the plunder of once-mighty Egypt. Though the two kingdoms have now been reunited by the armies of the true Pharaoh, his position is perilous, his rule under threat from those who seek to take advantage of the turmoil created by the overthrow of the Hyksos. Desperate to keep Egypt united, Taita the Magus summons his protégé, Piay, to solve a millennia-old riddle which has the power to secure Egypt's future forever. But in the tumult of war, an evil has thrived. Malevolent followers of Seth, the god of chaos, are determined to claim this power and usher in a new age of darkness. The fate of Egypt is at stake. Can Piay prevent their land falling into the hands of those who would see its ruin?Roman warfare
By Adrian Goldsworthy. 2023
From an award-winning historian of ancient Rome, a concise and comprehensive history of the fighting forces that created the Roman…
Empire Roman warfare was relentless in its pursuit of victory. A ruthless approach to combat played a major part in Rome's history, creating an empire that eventually included much of Europe, the Near East and North Africa. What distinguished the Roman army from its opponents was the uncompromising and total destruction of its enemies. Yet this ferocity was combined with a genius for absorbing conquered peoples, creating one of the most enduring empires ever known. In Roman Warfare , celebrated historian Adrian Goldsworthy traces the history of Roman warfare from 753 BC, the traditional date of the founding of Rome by Romulus, to the eventual decline and fall of Roman Empire and attempts to recover Rome and Italy from the "barbarians" in the sixth century AD. It is the indispensable history of the most professional fighting force in ancient history, an army that created an Empire and changed the worldLa pierre de Rosette
By Robert Solé. 1999
Le livre des sens (Le Livre de poche #9588)
By Diane Ackerman. 1993
"...En cinq plongées dans l'histoire, la science, les civilisations ou l'anecdote, ce livre nous invite à découvrir toute la richesse…
cachée dans l'ouïe, la vue, l'odorat, le toucher et le goût..." [SDMA la recherche des civilisations disparues (A la recherche de...)
By Alan Landsburg. 1978
Tour d'horizon des civilisations mystérieuses du passé suggérées par divers témoins archéologiques immortalisés dans la pierre ou autres matériaux terrestres.…
Il est bon de noter que cet essai est aussi édité simultanément, sous un format et une couverture absolument identiques, par les Presses Sélect. [SDMLes grandes dates de l'Antiquité (Que sais-je? #1013)
By Jean Delorme. 1978
Chronologie des grands événements de l'Antiquité. Une synthèse de chaque série d'événements a été donnée sous une rubrique particulière, soit…
la plus significative, soit la première en date. Ainsi, à l'élément purement chronologique, s'ajoute un élément historique. [SDMSecrets of the Sphinx
By James Giblin. 2004
Presents the probable history of the five-thousand-year-old Great Sphinx, the enormous sculpture of a pharoah's head on a lion's body…
that lies near the three pyramids of Giza at Cairo, Egypt. Discusses the difficulties of protecting this stone monument from air pollution. For grades 4-7 and older readers. 2004Alexander the Great: the hunt for a new past
By Paul Cartledge. 2004
British scholar, author of The Spartans (DB 58416), searches for the historical Alexander the Great (356-323 B.C.), blending classical accounts…
with the findings of modern researchers. Chronicles the major battles and conquests, appraises Alexander's personal and political beliefs, and assesses problems of historical interpretation. 2004Hannibal, une incroyable destinée (L'histoire comme un roman (Larousse (Firme)))
By Jean-Claude Belfiore. 2011
"Dans ce récit clair et vivant, l'auteur nous plonge dans les multiples rebondissements d'un conflit qui opposa les deux meilleures…
armées de l'époque et nous relate l'incroyable destinée d'un des plus grands généraux de tous les temps, dont la stratégie fut enseignée longtemps dans les écoles militaires." -- 4e de couvThe Greek way
By Edith Hamilton. 1993
The author of Mythology (DB 20026) explores the accomplishments of Greek intellectual life in the fifth century B.C. Discusses customs,…
philosophy, religion, and art, referencing the era's noted writers--the poet Pindar; dramatists Aeschylus, Euripides, and Sophocles; and historians Herodotus, Thucydides, and Xenophon--with excerpts from classic works. 1930The Hellenistic age: a short history (A Modern Library chronicles book)
By Peter Green. 2007
Classics professor surveys three centuries of ancient Greek history from the era of Philip of Macedon and Alexander the Great…
in 336 B.C.E. to the death of Cleopatra of Egypt in 31 B.C.E. Highlights ruthless leaders, political machinations, and battles that eventually gave way to Roman control. 2007Dinosaur tracks (Let's-read-and-find-out Science 2 Ser.)
By Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld. 2007
Explains that fossils of dinosaur footprints found today are the result of tracks made and preserved millions of years ago.…
Includes an activity for making your own fossil handprints or footprints. For grades 2-4. 2007