検索キーワード： 古代

Trója. A valaha volt legcsodálatosabb királyság, az égei világ ékköve. Ragyogó Ilion, a város, amely nem egyszer, de kétszer tündöklött és bukott el. Az ókori görög mitológia legnagyobb és leghíresebb története, az, amely a trójai háború históriáját írja le. Az úgynevezett Nagy történetet olvashatjuk, illetve hallhatjuk tehát újra, amelyet először Homérosz írt le Íliász című halhatatlan művében, csak ezúttal Fry jól ismert, egyszerre humoros, szellemes, komoly, mégis szórakoztató stílusában

Hannibal Barca moved through the countryside burning, looting, and attracting recruits and supplies from disgruntled city residents and tribesmen. Cornelius Scipio remained with the forward Legions, taking any position available. It spoke well of his loyalty, but his actions hid a deeper secret. Cornelius feared the Scipio men would be accused of being cowards. Jace Kasia had no family but had a goal to be recognized as a Cretan archer. On the banks of Lake Trasimene, he earned the position of File Leader.

King Richard the Lionheart is dead, and his brother, John Lackland, sits uneasily upon the throne of England. Across the sea, Prince Louis, heir to the powerful King Philip Augustus of France, looks to King John’s crown with a covetous eye. But King John must be wary of rebellion, as well as invasion, for even his own barons would see their king unseated, and the French pretender put in his place. Thrust amid this tumult is young Estienne Wace, orphan squire to Earl William Marshal – the greatest knight to ever serve the kings of England.

Welcome to 259 B.C. By law, all debts must be paid by the Ides of March. For men like them, sharp steel was the only acceptable currency. Unless something changed, one would emerge a winner and the other the guest of honor at a funeral. Blood payment might not have been the official objective. But it would not matter to an enraged Alerio Sisera as he clutched a gladius and held a temple voucher aloft.

Jocasta is just fifteen when she is told that she must marry the King of Thebes, an old man she has never met. Her life has never been her own, and nor will it be, unless she outlives her strange, absent husband. Ismene is the same age when she is attacked in the palace she calls home. Since the day of her parents' tragic deaths a decade earlier, she has always longed to feel safe with the family she still has. But with a single act of violence, all that is about to change. With the turn of these two events, a tragedy is set in motion. But not as we’ve known it.

أكبر معارك العصور القديمة، حصار طروادة الذي ظل حربًا مشتعلة لسنوات عديدة بسبب اختطاف الملكة الإغريقية هيلانة على يد الطرواديين. نستمع إلى القصة من الجانب الآخر، من بين جنود الإغريق وقادتهم، على لسان ملكة أخرى واقعة في الأسر تدعى بريزيس.

México-Tenochtitlan ha caído en manos de los españoles y una nueva ciudad comienza a erigirse sobre la antigua urbe mexica. Francisco Cuetzpalómitl, o "Huesos de Lagartija", superviviente de la guerra de conquista, encarga un códice muy especial a un pintor de códices. La obra demostrará a los españoles quiénes son los verdaderos dueños de las tierras que la derrotada nobleza mexica pretende apropiarse. Las cosas se complican cuando el códice es robado. Ello obliga a Francisco y a su hijo, Santiago, a emprender una desesperada y peligrosa búsqueda.

Years after her son’s crucifixion, Mary finds herself alone, fearful, while attempting to reconstruct the events leading to her son's cruel death. With no interest in collaborating with the authors of the Gospel and during a time fraught with upheaval and transition, she tries to tell the truth, revealing herself as a figure of towering moral integrity, and a historical woman portrayed in all her humanity.

"I've heard Cretan archers are good bowmen but weak skirmishers," a Tribune offered. "It has something to do with the teeny, tiny shields they wear like jewelry on their left forearms." "They wear jewelry into combat," Tribune Scipio moaned. "What have I done?" Set in the desperate years of the Second Punic War, the series follows the exploits of Cretan archer Jace Kasia and Roman Legion Tribune Cornelius Scipio. One is a castaway searching for a home while the other seeks to step out of the shadow of a famous father.

AD 211: Septimius Severus, Emperor of Rome, has invaded what is now Scotland, but Tullius, second-in-command of the legendary Sixth Victrix Legion, has more to worry about. Severus’s eldest son, a young Caracalla, is already testing the limits of his power as his monstrous nature begins to reveal itself. With his family under threat of death from him, Tullius must balance their safety with a sworn duty to his emperor and turn to the only people who can help – those north of Hadrian’s Wall – his enemies.

A lo largo de la narración nos encontramos envueltos en el anárquico periodo del primer milenio del Imperio Romano, cuando la presión de los bárbaros comienza a resquebrajar los limes y los emperadores se sucedían vertiginosamente unos a otros. En el año 248, Roma se prepara para celebrar el gran esplendor milenario de su fundación, tras haber conseguido establecer la paz con los persas de Oriente merced a la hábil gestión de los embajadores imperiales

Onaisín es un indio ona de Tierra del Fuego que vive tranquilo junto a su perro, hasta que los españoles llegan en busca de la supuesta Ciudad de los Césares. Un relato que muestra cómo un joven empieza a convertirse en adulto a razón de las experiencias que debe vivir.

En plena Edad Media, la Reconquista avanza, a pesar de la fuerza del imperio Almohade. El rey Alfonso VIII funda, en un paraje idílico de los amplios territorios de la Trasierra, la populosa ciudad de Ambrosía (nombre griego que sonaba a pagano en la Edad Media y que se transformó en Plasencia, que significa lugar placentero para vivir).

In the tumultuous world of ancient Israel, Ahinoam—a dagger-wielding Kenite woman—flees her family farm with her unconventional father to join the ragtag band of misfits led by the shepherd-turned-warrior David ben Jesse. As King Saul's treasonous accusations echo through the land, Ahinoam's conviction that David's anointing makes him Yahweh's chosen king propels her on a perilous journey to Moab and back into Judah's unforgiving wilderness, only to encounter more hardship and betrayal.

Xishi’s beauty is seen as a blessing to the villagers of Yue—convinced that the best fate for a girl is to marry well and support her family. When Xishi draws the attention of the famous young military advisor, Fanli, he presents her with a rare opportunity: to use her beauty as a weapon. One that could topple the rival neighboring kingdom of Wu, improve the lives of her people, and avenge her sister’s murder. All she has to do is infiltrate the enemy palace as a spy, seduce their immoral king, and weaken them from within.

Miriam longs to become The Magdalene, High Priestess of Asherah, as her mother and grandmother before her, but learns she is to marry an obscure rabbi from Galilee, Yeshua bar Yosef. Determined to control her own life, she runs away and is brutally attacked in the streets of Jerusalem. Broken in body and spirit, she resigns herself to her fate.

Yen Se has lost everything to the Khan's brutality. Left with one eye and one arm, he is forced out of his home village to work in the city as a horse handler. Witness to the Khan's violent crusade, their raids sweeping across Eurasia, he travels with the theatre of war, but exists outside of it; stunned every morning to find himself alive. Yen Se moves randomly across Europe with a loose band of survivors – men who think of survival, men who think of resistance, and women who dare to dream of peace.

¿Te imaginas poder viajar en el tiempo a la época y lugar que tú elijas? Eso es lo que le ocurre a Manuel en Historias de la Historia. La Antigua Roma, Egipto, la Edad Media o la Alemania nazi son algunos de los destinos que nuestro protagonista decide visitar en pos de desmentir a los defensores de la historia «oficial». ¿Sabías que para evitar la ejecución de Agnodice, la primera mujer de la historia en practicar la ginecología, tuvo lugar una de las primeras huelgas de sexo en la Antigua Grecia?

¿Te imaginas poder viajar en el tiempo a la época y lugar que tú elijas? Eso es lo que le ocurre a Manuel en Historias de la Historia. La Antigua Roma, Egipto, la Edad Media o la Alemania nazi son algunos de los destinos que nuestro protagonista decide visitar en pos de desmentir a los defensores de la historia «oficial».

Follow Odysseus after he leaves the fallen city of Troy and takes ten long dramatic years - battling monsters, the temptations of goddesses and suffering the curse of Poseidon - to voyage home to his wife Penelope on the island of Ithaca.