El mundo antiguo

Only a deep and matured knowledge, assimilated and object of continuous reflection over years of teaching and research work, such as that of Pedro Barceló -one of the most prominent and recognized Spanish specialists in Ancient History on the international scene- is able to illuminate a work of the characteristics of "The ancient world". In this astonishing testimony of historical knowledge, the author offers a compendium hardly comparable to the most suggestive and transcendental aspects of the world that, especially between 1500 BC. and 500 A.D. it was built around the Mediterranean basin, a consistent cultural area characterized by a varied background of common ideas, as well as a competitive power dynamic. Land and sea, myth and history, worship and redemption, dominance, war and violence, types of government, emerging monotheism and iconography of power: a comprehensive vision of all Antiquity.