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Babylon
Babylon often appears more myth than history. Purportedly the site of the Hanging Gardens and the Tower of Babel, its infamous presence in the Bible has made it a byword for sinful decadence. But Babylon was a real place teeming with life, a bustling mega-city on the Euphrates where schoolteachers, artisans, priests, slaves, prostitutes and soldiers rubbed shoulders in maze-like streets and busy marketplaces.
The city was home to some extraordinary rulers, from Hammurabi the great lawgiver to Nebuchadnezzar II, the conqueror-king, under whose reign the city glistened in gold and lapis lazuli.
In Babylon, Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones brings the city vividly to life, tracing its foundation through to its world domination, and subsequent decline, fall and ruin into dust. From ribald drinking songs to acerbic letters between rival kings, the extraordinary ancient sources help inform what is both a stunning work of scholarship and a fascinating evocation of a long-lost world.
Servus - How Slavery Made the Roman Empire
We associate the Romans with majesty and greatness: we marvel at their straight roads and innovative underfloor heating, at the dominance of their army and navy, at the grandeur of their palaces and temples. But the Romans were also enslavers. They built an empire on the backs of millions of people snatched from their homes in the aftermath of war, kidnapped from the streets, sold into slavery as punishment or, simply, born enslaved.
Servus takes us into the invisible spaces of the Roman world, where millions of enslaved lives were unwillingly dedicated to the perpetuation of the empire that owned them. From the fields of wheat required to give every Roman their daily bread, to the actors and gladiators who provided their circuses, and the miners who kept Rome a city of gold and marble, enslaved people were the bedrock of the Roman Empire. These enslaved people were ubiquitous, but silenced. Through the fragments they left behind, historian Emma Southon traces the pain and tragedy of their lives alongside the love stories, lifelong friendships, small victories and hard-won freedoms.
Servus tells the truth about the Roman empire and the unseen lives that made it so dominant.
The Buried City
A vast area of Pompeii is being excavated for the first time, revealing astonishing insights into how people really lived. In this revelatory new history, Director of Pompeii Gabriel Zuchtriegel shares the untold stories that are at last emerging.
Pompeii is a world frozen in time. There are unmade beds, dishes left drying, tools abandoned by workmen, bodies embracing with love and fear. And alongside the remnants of everyday life, there are captivating works of art: lifelike portraits, exquisite frescos and mosaics, and the extraordinary sculpture of a sleeping boy, curled up under a blanket that's too small.
The Buried City reconstructs the catastrophe that destroyed Pompeii on 24 August 79 CE, but it also offers a behind-the-scenes tour of the city as it was before: who lived here, what mattered to them, and what happened in their final hours. It offers us a vivid sense of Pompeii's continuing relevance, and proves that ancient history is much closer to us than we think.
Dobyvatel světa, 2. vydání
Osud Alexandra Velikého fascinuje již po celá staletí a stal se tématem bezpočtu divadelních her či literárních děl. Karel Richter se při jeho líčení nespokojuje pouze s odbornou dějepisnou výpovědí o velikých a někdy téměř nadlidských činech mladého makedonského krále, který porážel své řecké, perské i indické odpůrce v bitvách, jejichž vítězné zakončení se zdálo nemožné. S hlubokým prožitkem historických faktů barvitě vykresluje Alexandra jako člověka neobyčejně schopného, vynikajícího silou, moudrostí i velkorysostí svých plánů na dobytí světa. Stejně tak jej dokáže vylíčit ve slabých chvilkách lidské nedokonalosti, nemoudrých rozhodnutí, pochybností, přehmatů i zavrženíhodných skutků. Hrdinou je velký starověký vojevůdce a vladař, ale zůstává člověkem ve vší úplnosti lidské podstaty, i když sám začínal s rostoucími úspěchy podléhat samolibému přesvědčení, že je bohem. Z tohoto omylu jej vyvedl až předčasný skon. Jeho skutky a říše, kterou vytvořil, jej však učinily nesmrtelným…
Carthage
The empire behind the legend
Carthage was a power that dominated the western Mediterranean for almost six centuries before its fall to Rome. The history of the realm and its Carthaginians was subsumed by their conquerors and, along the way, the story of the real Carthage was lost. An ancient North African kingdom, Carthage was the home of Hannibal and of Dido, of war elephants and enormous power and wealth, of great beauty and total destruction.
In this landmark new history, Eve MacDonald tells the essential story of the lost culture of Carthage and of its forgotten people, using brand new archaeological analysis to uncover the history behind the legend. A journey that takes us the Phoenician Levant of the early Iron Age to the Atlantic and all along the coast of Africa, Carthage puts the city and the story of North Africa once again at the centre of Mediterranean history. Reclaimed from the Romans, this, for the very first time, is the Carthaginian version of the tale.
Proto - How One Ancient Language Went Global
One ancient language transformed our world. This is its story.
Star. Stjarna. Stare. Thousands of miles apart, people look up at the night sky and use the same word to describe what they see.
Listen to these English, Icelandic and Iranic words and you can hear echoes of one of the most extraordinary journeys in humanity’s past. All three of these languages – and hundreds more – share a single ancient ancestor.
Five millennia ago, in a mysterious Big Bang of its own, this proto tongue exploded, forming new worlds as it spread east and west. Today, nearly half of humanity speaks an Indo-European language. How did this happen?
In Proto, acclaimed journalist Laura Spinney sets off to find out. With her we travel the length of the steppe, navigating the Caucasus, the Silk Roads and the Hindu Kush. We follow in the footsteps of nomads and monks, Amazon warriors and lion kings – the ancient peoples who spread these tongues far and wide. In the present, Spinney meets the linguists, archaeologists and geneticists racing to recover this lost world. What they have discovered has vital lessons for our modern age, as people and their languages are on the move again.
Proto is a revelatory portrait of world history in its own words.
A Short History of Ancient Rome
Short History of Ancient Rome transforms 1,000 years of history into a riveting and action-packed account of the inception, expansion and ultimate fall of Ancient Rome.
Combining impeccable research with gripping storytelling, A Short History of Ancient Rome takes readers through the dramatic twists and turns of the kingdom, the republic, the empire and its decline in less time than it would take to watch the Gladiator movies.
Filled with the sights, sounds, smells and characters that shaped Rome, this book brings the ancient world to life and tells you everything you need to know about this crucial period in history.
The Lost Voices of Pompeii
We all know how the people of Pompeii died. But what about how they lived?
In 24 hours, Pompeii will vanish.
The morning of the eruption was a day like any other. Julia Felix opens her tavern for another day of business, defying every convention that says a woman can't succeed alone. Petrinus, newly freed from slavery, wrestles with an impossible decision about his future. Politician Gaius Cuspius Pansa prepares to host the Plebian Games, a spectacle that will cement his power forever.
In 24 hours, seven lives will change forever.
Drawing on the latest archaeological discoveries, Dr Jess Venner brings the ancient streets to life through the eyes of those who lived, worked, loved and ultimately met their fate in Pompeii. Here is a community more complex, diverse and human than we ever imagined.
Pompeii is remembered for its destruction, but here we discover the vibrant lives that came before. Richly evocative and immersive, The Lost Voices of Pompeii vividly recreates the final twenty-four hours before the eruption, reminding us exactly what – and who – was lost in 79 AD.
This is the story of everything, and everyone, that was lost.
For anyone who has ever walked the ruins of Pompeii and wondered what lives beneath the ash, this is the book that answers that question.
Po roce 1177 př. Kr. - Přežití civilizací
V pokračování své úspěšné knihy se americký archeolog Eric H. Cline znovu vrací ke kolapsu civilizací doby bronzové ve Středomoří a na Předním východě. Tentokrát se soustředí na období následující po zhroucení těchto vyspělých společností. Ukazuje, že i uprostřed chaosu vznikaly zásadní inovace, od rozšíření železa až po nové podoby písma. Na příkladu strategií, které zvolili Asyřané, Egypťané, Féničané a další, přibližuje, proč některé civilizace dokázaly obrovské otřesy přežít, zatímco jiné zcela zanikly.
The Lives of the Caesars
A masterful new translation of Suetonius' renowned biography of the twelve Caesars, bringing to life a portrait of the first Roman emperors in stunning detail
The ancient Roman empire was the supreme arena, where emperors had no choice but to fight, to thrill, to dazzle. To rule as a Caesar was to stand as an actor upon the great stage of the world. No biography invites us into the lives of the Caesars more vividly or intimately than that by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus, written from the centre of Rome and power, in AD 121.
Placing each Caesar in the context of the generations that had gone before, and connecting personality with policy, Suetonius injected flesh and blood into their stories, which continue to inform how we understand the drama of power today. Their shortfalls, foreign policy crises and sex scandals are laid bare; we are shown their tastes, their foibles, their eccentricities; and we sit at their tables and enter their bedrooms, resulting in a series of biographies mediated through the lives of the Caesars themselves.
That Rome lives more vividly in people's imagination than any other ancient empire owes an inordinate amount to Suetonius, and now award-winning author and translator Tom Holland brings us even closer in a new, spellbinding translation. Giving a deeper understanding of the personal lives of the Caesars and of how they inevitably informed what happened across the vast expanse of empire, The Lives of the Caesars is an astonishing, immersive experience of a time and culture at once familiar and utterly alien to our own.
Starověký Egypt a jeho všední život
Zjistěte, co jedli, kde spali a na co umírali staří Egypťané!
Málokterá starověká kultura nás dokáže uchvátit stejně jako Egypt. Ve srovnání s antikou však tato fascinující civilizace zanechala jen velmi málo textů, které by nám dovolily nahlédnout do každodenního života tehdejších lidí. Obraz někdejší reality proto musíme skládat kámen po kamínku jako barevnou mozaiku. Této mravenčí práce se ujali egyptologové, kteří zkoumají fragmenty osobní korespondence, lékařské papyry, detaily reliéfů i pohřební výbavu. Unikátní svědectví poskytují také opuštěná sídla, v nichž přebývali dávní stavitelé hrobek. Právě tyto drobné střípky postupně umožňují vytvářet obraz života v říši na Nilu, kterou považujeme za jednu z kolébek civilizace. Začtěte se do stránek této publikace a přijměte pozvání do egyptské domácnosti. Věříme, že vás tato návštěva skutečně obohatí.
Rodina a dětství
Poznejte porod, rané dětství a mladá léta v říši na Nilu.
Jak se žilo?
Jak vypadalo vnitřní vybavení prostých domků dělníků a rolníků i luxusních paláců?
Od otroka po faraona
Pronikněte do tajů všech společenských vrstev a seznámte se s faraonem i spodinou společnosti.
Jídlo a pití
Jaký byl staroegyptský jídelníček a co lidem poskytovala úrodná říční delta?
Mythica
Award-winning classicist and historian Emily Hauser takes readers on an epic journey to uncover the astonishing true story of the real women behind ancient Greece’s greatest legends, and the real heroes of those ancient epics, Homer's Iliadand Odyssey . . .
Contrary to perceptions built up over three millennia, ancient history is not all about men – and it's not only men's stories that deserve to be told.
In Mythica Emily Hauser tells, for the first time, the extraordinary stories of the real women behind some of the western world’s greatest legends. Following in their footsteps, digging into the history behind Homer’s epic poems, piecing together evidence from the original texts, recent astonishing archaeological finds and the latest DNA studies, she reveals who these women – queens, mothers, warriors, slaves – were, how they lived, and how history has (or has not – until now) remembered them.
A riveting new history of the Bronze Age Aegean and a journey through Homer’s epics charted entirely by women – from Helen of Troy, Briseis, Cassandra and Aphrodite to Circe, Athena, Hera, Calypso and Penelope – Mythica is a ground-breaking reassessment of the reality behind the often-mythologized women of Greece’s greatest epics, and of the ancient world itself as we learn ever more about it.
Mythica - Legendás hősnők igaz története
Heléna, a szépség, Kasszandra, a jós, Pénelopé, a hűséges feleség... ismerősen csengő nevek, mégis ismeretlen nőalakok. Kik lehettek ők, mi volt a valódi történetük? Mit találunk, ha bepillantunk a megszokott jelzők mögé? Emily Hauser többszörösen díjazott brit ókortörténész, klasszika-filológus különleges utazásra hívja az olvasót: végigvezet az ókori mítoszok jól ismert történetein úgy, hogy megmutatja: a történelem nem csupán a férfiak történelme. Egyedülálló, szórakoztató tanulmánykötetében hangot ad az elhallgattatott, mitikus nőalakoknak, újraértelmezi nem csupán az ókori világot, de ennek fényében a nyugati történelem férfiorientált világképét is. A Mythica tudományos igényű, ugyanakkor közérthető, olvasmányos mű. Miközben bemutatja a homéroszi eposzok nőalakjainak történetét, leás az eposzok mögötti történelem mélyére, régészeti leletekből, DNS-kutatásokból hoz példákat, hogy megmutassa, kik is voltak ezek az asszonyok - királynők, anyák, harcosok és rabnők -, hogyan éltek, és legfőképpen: mit mond el rólunk, az utókorról az, ahogyan emlékezünk rájuk.
The Far Edges of the Known World
What was it like to live on the edges of ancient empires, at the boundaries of the known world?
When Ovid was exiled from Rome to a border town on the Black Sea, he despaired at his new bleak and barbarous surroundings. Like many Greeks and Romans, Ovid thought the outer reaches of his world was where civilisation ceased to exist. Our fascination with the Greek and Roman world, and the abundance of writing that we have from it, means that we usually explore the ancient world from this perspective too. Was Ovid's exile really as bad as he claimed? What was it truly like to live on the edges of these empires, on the boundaries of the known world?
Thanks to archaeological excavations, we now know that the borders of the empires we consider the 'heart' of civilisation were in fact thriving, vibrant cultures - just not ones we might expect. This is where the boundaries of 'civilised' and 'barbarians' began to dissipate; where the rules didn't always apply; where normally juxtaposed cultures intermarried; and where nomadic tribes built their own cities.
Taking us along the sandy caravan routes of Morocco to the freezing winters of the northern Black Sea, from Co-Loa in the Red River valley of Vietnam to the rain-lashed forts south of Hadrian's Wall, Owen Rees explores the powerful empires and diverse peoples in Europe, Asia and Africa beyond the reaches of Greece and Rome. In doing so, he offers us a new, brilliantly rich lens with which to understand the ancient world.
The Library of Ancient Wisdom
When a team of Victorian archaeologists dug into a grassy hill in Iraq, they chanced upon one of the oldest and greatest stores of knowledge ever seen: the library of the Assyrian king Ashurbanipal, seventh century BCE ruler of a huge swathe of the ancient Middle East known as Mesopotamia. After his death, vengeful rivals burned Ashurbanipal's library to the ground - yet the texts, carved on clay tablets, were baked and preserved by the heat. Buried for millennia, the tablets were written in cuneiform: the first written language in the world.
More than half of human history is written in cuneiform, but only a few hundred people on earth can read it. In this captivating new book, Assyriologist Selena Wisnom takes us on an immersive tour of this extraordinary library, bringing ancient Mesopotamia and its people to life. Through it, we encounter a world of astonishing richness, complexity and sophistication. Mesopotamia, she shows, was home to advanced mathematics, astronomy and banking, law and literature. This was a culture absorbed and developed by the ancient Greeks, and whose myths were precursors to Bible stories - in short, a culture without which our lives today would be unrecognizable.
The Library of Ancient Wisdom unearths a civilization at once strange and strangely familiar: a land of capricious gods, exorcisms and professional lamenters, whose citizens wrote of jealous rivalries, profound friendships and petty grievances. Through these pages we come face to face with humanity's first civilization: their startling achievements, their daily life, and their struggle to understand our place in the universe.
Between Two Rivers
Thousands of years ago, in a part of the world we now call ancient Mesopotamia, people began writing things down for the very first time.
What they left behind, in a vast region between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, preserves leaps in human ingenuity, like the earliest depiction of a wheel and the first approximation of pi. But they also capture breathtakingly intimate, raw and relatable moments, like a dog's paw prints as it accidentally stepped into fresh clay, or the imprint of a child's teeth.
In Between Two Rivers, historian Dr Moudhy Al-Rashid reveals what these ancient people chose to record about their lives, allowing us to brush hands with them millennia later. We find a lullaby to soothe a baby, instructions for exorcising a ghost, countless receipts for beer, and the adorable, messy writing of preschoolers. We meet an enslaved person negotiating their freedom, an astronomer tracing the movement of the planets, a princess who may have created the world's first museum, and a working mother struggling with 'the juggle' in 1900 BCE.
Together, these fragments illuminate not just the history of Mesopotamia, but the story of how history was made.
Celtic Magic
A captivating introduction to Celtic magic, revealing its integration into daily life from antiquity to the Middle Ages, inviting readers to explore its mysteries through rituals and practical charms.
Druids and divination, curses and charms: the Celtic world was filled with magic and intrigue, but how did people practise magic and what did they use it for? Brigid Ehrmantraut takes us on a journey through the Celtic-speaking world to explore the different ways people interacted with magic. Some sought aid through deities and dedications, while others wanted to punish their enemies with spells and curse tablets.
By the start of the medieval period, we see magic collide with popular religion, saints overtake the old gods, and witches, shapeshifting and spirit battles make their way into medieval literature. Ehrmantraut introduces us to the gods and practices that shaped the lives of the Celtic people in antiquity. She brings to life forgotten gods like Cernunnos and Esus, immortalized on the Pillar of the Boatmen, and explores the sanctuary of Sequana, goddess of healing at the Seine's source. But magic wasn't always benevolent; curses (defixiones) like those etched on the Larzac tablet expose a darker side to magic practitioners. While Classical accounts of magic offer tantalizing glimpses into lurid rituals and wild druids, their accounts blurring fact and fiction.
Our voyage through the Celtic world sweeps into medieval Wales and Ireland, touching on Scotland and Brittany in the process. Protective prayers, such as St Patrick's loricae, and miraculous tales from saints' lives reveal the interplay of magic and religion. While the power of star signs and medicinal charms connect Celtic practices to broader medieval traditions. Finally, the book celebrates the legacy of Celtic magic, linking ancient magic to modern Celtic-inspired spirituality.
Throughout the book, the reader will find tips and tricks for practising their own magic, including creating curses, dedicating ex votos to the gods, and a medieval Welsh cure for a hangover.
Alexander - God, King, Man
A stunningly written new biography of Alexander the Great, based on a series of important new discoveries and the author's own translations of source material from twelve ancient languages.
In 336 BCE, at the age of twenty, Alexander, a wide-eyed boy from the hills of Macedon, inherited a tumbledown kingdom, a pile of debts and an army which answered to nobody. Desperate to hold on to power, he led the army east, into the heart of the vast Persian Empire, and inadvertently began the greatest military campaign in history. The young man became a king, the king became a hero, the hero became a living god, and the god died aged thirty-two, broken-hearted in Babylon.
For centuries, historians have told his story, yet Alexander has remained a mystery. But now, the ruins of his cities have emerged from the bottom of the sea and the dust of Central Asian hillsides. The diaries of Babylonian astronomers who knew him have been deciphered. The tombs of his ancestors have been unearthed. For the first time, instead of the legend, we can meet Alexander the man.
Based on more than a decade of cutting-edge research, Alexander allows readers to feel the desert wind and experience the full horror of battle. Richardson's research has taken him from the catacombs of Egypt to the passes of Afghanistan. Alexander is a cinematic work of non-fiction: a revelatory retelling of one of the most famous and elusive stories in history.
24 hodin ve starověkém Římě
Nechte se pohltit rytmem města, v němž se psala historie a každý čin mohl vstoupit do legend! Poznávejte život v kypících ulicích nejslavnější metropole všech dob očima jejích obyvatel. Od otrokyně po kněžku, od prostého vozky po senátora či kupce. Ti všichni tvořili součást velkolepé kultury, která ožívá v poutavém vyprávění z pera neúnavného poopularizátora historie a odborníka na starověk Philipa Matyszaka. Příběh se odvíjí minutu za minutou a hodinu za hodinou a budete jej číst jedním dechem.
„Poutavé vyprávění na hraně literatury faktu a fikce vás vezme do antického Říma za vlády císařů a přiblíží každodenní radosti a strasti jeho obyvatel. Uvidíte, že se od těch našich zase tolik nelišily!“
Vydejte se s námi na cestu časem a prožijte celý den s obyvateli starověkého Říma v době jeho největšího územního, kulturního a civilizačního rozkvětu.
Píše se rok 137 našeho letopočtu a nad velkolepým římským impériem slunce nezapadá. Císař Hadrianus dbá o zajištění hranic, věnuje se velkolepým stavbám i rozvoji vzdělanosti. Obyčejní Římané však jen málo dbají o vojenskou slávu, monumentální architekturu nebo ušlechtilé ideály. Jejich cílem je přežít v drsném prostředí, kde každý den přináší nové nástrahy.
Poznejte Věčné město prostřednictvím pestré škály obyvatel, o nichž se v historických knihách většinou nedočtete. Každou hodinou vás provede zástupce jiné profese i společenské vrstvy, poznáte otrokyni, lazebníka, pekaře, gladiátora, senátora, ba i císařského posla.
Zjistěte, jaký trest čekal vestálku, která porušila slib cudnosti, proč astrologové nesměli předpovídat osud samotného císaře a s čím museli počítat římští školáci. Odhalte skutečnou tvář nejslavnější metropole všech dob prostřednictvím těch, kteří v ní žili, pracovali a umírali.
Vitajte v kategórii "Starovek" - období, ktoré osvetľuje zlatý vek civilizácií, ktoré formovali našu históriu, kultúru a vedecké objavy. Pripojte sa k nám na ceste objavovania ríš, ktoré stáli na základoch dnešnej spoločnosti, od impozantných pyramíd starovekého Egypta, cez filozofické diskusie v Aténach, až po veľkolepé koloseum v Ríme.
V tejto kategórii nájdete diela, ktoré vás prevedú mestami ako Mezopotámia, Persia, Indie a Čína. Preskúmajte architektonické majstrovstvá, bohaté mýty, náboženské tradície a vojenské stratégie týchto starodávnych civilizácií. Učte sa o významných osobnostiach, ako sú Kleopatra, Sokrat či Čchin Š'-chuang-ti a ich vplyve na svet, v ktorom žijeme.
Táto kategória je pokladnicou vedomostí o umení, vede, politike a spoločenskom živote staroveku. Ponúka hlboký vhľad do spôsobov myslenia, života a kultúry obyvateľov týchto historických epoch.
Ponorte sa do sveta staroveku s nami a objavte dedičstvo, ktoré tieto civilizácie zanechali pre budúce generácie, a pochopíte, prečo ich príbehy stále rezonujú v našich srdciach a mysliach.
