De la arena a la gloria: la historia de Espar...

En los siglos XIV y XV, hombres y mujeres llevaron trajes y tocados cada vez más lujosos y extravagantes. 

Recordada hasta hace poco como una traidora a su pueblo, Malintzin, la indígena que sirvió de traductora a Hernán Cortés durante la conquista de México, fue una mujer excepcional que logró abrirse camino en un mundo dominado por los hombres. 

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the life of Spartacus, the gladiator who led a major slave rebellion against the Roman Republic in the 1st century BC. He was an accomplished military leader, and the campaign he led contributed significantly to the instability of the Roman sta ...  Afficher plus

From Gladiator to Rome Total War to Star Wars, today the Praetorians are one of the most distinctive military units of Imperial Rome. It was their job to protect the Roman Emperor and his household, a task for which they hold a somewhat ‘chequered’ record (especially when we focu ...  Afficher plus

From 73-71 BC a gladiator named Spartacus led a slave revolt in southern Italy. Despite defeating the Romans on numerous occasions, the slave army was eventually defeated by Marcus Crassus (with an unsolicited assist from Pompey). 

In 281/280 BC, the Hellenistic King Pyrrhus ventured to southern Italy to aid the Italiote-Greek city of Tarentum against a rising power based in central Italy. This enemy was the Romans. Over the next 150 years this civilisation would rise to become the Mediterranean superpow ...