This work brings together a set of studies in homage to Maria do Céu Fialho, Hellenist, professor and researcher at the University of Coimbra. The structuring axis of these two volumes is Peace and War. Around this binomial are organized reflections by specialists from different scientific fields: Ancient Greece and Rome, but also other areas such as History and Philosophy, Literature and Reception Studies, Religion and Politics. The contributions focus on themes as diverse as creation, love and celebration, or destruction, power and violence. Human ambivalence and complexity, metonymically represented by the hands, traverses the cultural and historical contexts of Ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome, through to the Modern and Contemporary periods.