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The ultimate work of historical reference From cavemen to the Cold War, from Alexander the Great to global warming, from warfare through the ages to the great voyages of exploration, The Times Complete History of the World is the book that has all the answers, the detail and the authoritative text in one breathtaking single historical source. With over 600 full-colour maps and charts on a wide range of historical subjects and representing the work of a team of professional historians, this new edition continues a tradition of nearly thirty years of excellence, style, authority and cutting-edge design. This edition is internet-linked, permitting further in-depth exploration of key subjects. With fully up-to-date text, including material on Iraq and Afghanistan, terrorism, Israel and the EU, this book, edited by leading modern historian Professor Richard Overy, is broad-ranging and more visually enticing than ever.

Look at any dictionary of classical mythology, and what you find will be Greek - any mention of the Romans will be by contrast, as of a people who had no gods and heroes of their own, and therefore no true mythology...This is all the result of a two-hundred-year-old prejudice, born of the Romantic movement and nourished by nineteenth-century classical scholarship, that only the Greeks were authentically creative, and that the Romans were merely practical - engineers, jurists, empire-builders. The purpose of this book is to show that that''s all wrong. New discoveries have proved that Rome was not ''at the margin of the civilised world'', that it was not merely the ''elite'' that created her world of stories. Nor was the foundation legend unique as a Roman myth, and there was certainly no shortage of ''divine tales''. The proof of this is in the great tradition of European painting, from Tiepolo in the eighteenth century back to Botticelli in the fifteenth, artists with no post-Romantic hang-ups about what might or might not count as ''authentic'' mythology. Having assembled the neglected evidence for a Roman mythology, Peter Wiseman traces the development of the Roman story-world over time and, through an imaginative effort of reconstruction, transforms our picture of early Roman civilization for ever.

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La HISTORIA UNIVERSAL aporta a la bibliografía histórica española una obra de síntesis, actual, de carácter universal, en la que son presentadas las grandes líneas maestras de la evolución histórica, de acuerdo con las tecnicas y metodos actuales de la investigacion. No debe confundirse, pues, con un resumen o un manual de texto.