Автор: Aldo Schiavone

The slave and gladiator Spartacus has been the subject of myth-making in his own time and of movie-making in ours. Aldo Schiavone brings him squarely into the arena of serious history. Spartacus emer …

A world-renowned classicist presents a groundbreaking biography of the man who sent Jesus of Nazareth to the Cross. The Roman prefect Pontius Pilate has been cloaked in rumor and myth since the first …

La figura de Poncio Pilato se encuentra en la intersección entre la memoria y la historia. Por una parte, los Evangelios, grandes laboratorios de la memoria religiosa cristiana, que inauguran un nuev …

Does the idea of progress still apply to our times? If so, what does progress really mean? Today, many believe that progress is a word to be avoided, a relic from a past, the dangerous product of an …

Does it still make sense to talk about progress?The word "progress" conjures up a positivistic view of the world, a late Victorian boundless trust in humanity’s talents for discovery and in …

This book provides a new approach to the study of the History of Roman Law. It collects the first results of the European Research Council Project, Scriptores iuris Romani – dedicated to a new collec …

This book provides a new approach to the study of the History of Roman Law. It collects the first results of the European Research Council Project, Scriptores iuris Romani – dedicated to a new collec …

"Separate[s] the man from the myth. . . . Both the newcomer and the experienced Roman historian will find a wealth of entertainment and information." (Publishers Weekly)Spartacus (109?-71 b …