Resultados para "Homer" en Historia

¿Cómo ha moldeado la conciencia de la muerte nuestra manera de vivir y creer? ¿Qué relación existe entre los rituales funerarios y la idea del más allá? ¿Qué dicen nuestros muertos sobre quiénes somos? Desde los primeros enterramientos prehistóricos hasta la negación contemporánea...

The legendary poet of Greek antiquity Homer is surrounded by almost as much myth as the characters of his two epic poems The Iliad and The Odyssey. As two of the oldest extant works of Western literature they formed the foundations for Ancient Greek culture, and have been read, translated, adapted and enjoyed across the globe since the 8th century BC.

Relato en primera persona del hallazgo que reescribió nuestra historia evolutiva, el descubrimiento de Homo antecessor Hace tan solo tres décadas pocos podían imaginar que una especie humana hallada y nombrada en la península ibérica por científicos españoles tuviera el honor de formar...

The Iliad is one of the most enduring creations of Western Civilization and was originally written to be recited or chanted to the accompaniment of various instruments. Properly performed, this work today is just as meaningful, just as powerful, and just as entertaining as it was in the ninth century BC, and it casts its spell upon modern listeners with the same raw intensity as it did upon the people of ancient times.

El ser humano es la única especie consciente de su historia. La historia está en todas partes. En la cartelera del cine, en las novelas más vendidas, en las series de moda, en los videojuegos más conocidos, e incluso en las acaloradas charlas de sobremesa y discusiones estrambóticas de Twitter. Desde el mítico "lo leí en un libro" hasta "cualquier tiempo pasado fue mejor", pasando por "lo ha dicho la tele", Ad Absurdum rastrea los pasos de la historia a pie de calle, busca los problemas que la suelen acompañar y abre cientos de puertas al lector para comprenderla mejor.

Una biografía cultural del sapiens narrada por sus artefactos comunicativos: «los fósiles mediáticos». Si la evolución de la vida en la Tierra puede narrarse a través de sus fósiles, ¿por qué no reconstruir la historia del Homo sapiens siguiendo las huellas de sus medios y tecnologías?...

In this illuminating book, Witold Rybczynski walks us through five centuries of homes both great and small, from the smoke-filled manor halls of the Middle Ages to the Ralph Lauren–designed environments of today, on a house tour like no other: one that delightfully explicates the very idea of “home.”

A lo largo del último siglo, la humanidad ha logrado lo imposible frenando la hambruna, la peste y la guerra. Por primera vez en la historia, más personas mueren por obesidad que por pasar hambre y hay más probabilidades de quitarse la vida que de morir en un conflicto bélico o un atentado terrorista.

In Wives, Witches, and Whirlpools: The Powerful Women of Homer’s Odyssey, Professor Jessica Blum-Sorensen helps you explore this classic work with fresh eyes, focusing not on the eponymous hero, but on the many women whose voices and motivations invite us to rethink traditional ideas of heroism. Across seven lectures, you’ll reexamine some of the foundational themes of the literary canon from a new perspective and discover why the deities, wives, maidens, witches, and monsters who populate Homer’s Odyssey are more than a match for its hero.

Step beyond the pharaohs and uncover the captivating ancient history of everyday survival in the shadow of pyramids. Perfect for your morning commute or a focused learning session, this immersive archaeological journey reconstructs the vibrant lives of commoners, scribes, and skilled workers...

Like many post-9/11 combat veterans, JT Blatty struggled to regain her sense of purpose in the first years returning home from Afghanistan and Iraq. In 2018, a chance encounter brought her to Ukraine, drawn in by the familiarity of war and those who serve in wars. Over five years, JT captured the oral history and portraits of a tribe of revolutionaries, the Donbas volunteer soldiers. As she embedded with them on the front line in bunkers and forests, and in Kyiv flats, JT's story began to blend with theirs in a universal bond of combat veterans, compelling her to stay as a new war began.

Most familiar with the Wild West know Wyatt Earp, Virgil Earp, and Morgan Earp for the famous shootout on the streets of Tombstone, Arizona. But few know the later years of the close-knit Earp family, which revolved around patriarch Nicholas Earp, and their last push at a major monetary coup in Los Angeles.

Yuval Noah Harari, autor de Sapiens, un fenómeno internacional unánimemente aclamado por la crítica, regresa con una secuela igualmente original, convincente y provocadora, centrando su atención en el futuro de la humanidad y en nuestra obsesión por convertirnos en dioses. A lo largo del último siglo, la humanidad ha logrado lo imposible frenando la hambruna, la peste y la guerra. Por primera vez en la historia, más personas mueren por obesidad que por pasar hambre y hay más probabilidades de quitarse la vida que de morir en un conflicto bélico o un atentado terrorista.

Homo Sapiens tells the story of the species from its earliest evolutions through the development of the first civilizations up to the industrial and information revolutions that have shaped the modern age. William Potter's thrilling new account asks us to reconsider our traditional notions of history by examining the power of the environment, the influence of language, the ideas that have transformed society, the power of transformative technology, and much, much more.

Los neandertales: la historia de los humanos extintos que fueron contemporáneos del Homo Sapiens en Europa da un vistazo a la evolución de los neandertales y examina las teorías sobre su extinción.

As exhilarating today as they were at the time of being written, Homer's epic poems transport the listener on a courageous and daring journey at the heart of one of the most infamous wars in history. Discover the heroism and compassion of soldiers at the close of the Trojan War in The Iliad, as well as the devastating aftermath of the conflict in The Odyssey. Exploring themes such as bravery, mortality and homecoming, both works are a unique insight into ancient Greek culture.

In Homer, Barbara Graziosi considers Homer's famous works and their impact on readers throughout the centuries. She shows how The Iliad and The Odyssey benefit from a tradition of reading that spans well over two millennia, stemming from ancient scholars at the library of Alexandria, in the third and second centuries BCE, who wrote some of the first commentaries on the Homeric epics. Summaries of these scholars' notes made their way into the margins of Byzantine manuscripts; from Byzantium the annotated manuscripts traveled to Italy.

A los humanos nos gusta pensar en nosotros mismos como criaturas racionales. Sin embargo, algunos de los momentos más excepcionales de la historia no tratan de acontecimientos sino de sentimientos: los orígenes de la filosofía, el nacimiento del cristianismo, la caída de Roma, la Revolución científica o los grandes conflictos bélicos del siglo XX no pueden entenderse sin las emociones.

A hard-hitting investigation into how the Pentagon’s runaway spending embroils America in foreign wars, squanders its wealth, and enriches a privileged elite “A damning indictment of the conflicts of interest running rampant in the defense establishment.”―Publishers Weekly America spends...

He was a surgeon who quarreled with his own profession, an inventor who carried the hospital to the battlefield, a communist in a country that distrusted the word, and a difficult, proud, restless man who became a national hero on the far side of the world. Norman Bethune left Canada because his conscience could not breathe there. In China he found the one place where his deepest belief could finally become action: that medicine must move toward suffering, and that a nation which lets its people wait, and bleed, and go without care is a nation nursing a wound it refuses to close.