New Books in Ancient History

644 Episodes

1. Mara Nicosia, "Syriac Lexis and Lexica: Compiling Ancient and Modern Vocabularies" (Gorgias Press, 2024)

   Published: 4/14/2025
2. Christian Sheppard, "The Ancient Wisdom of Baseball: Lessons for Life from Homer's Odyssey to the World Series" (Greenleaf, 2025)

   Published: 4/10/2025
3. William Dalrymple, "The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World" (Bloomsbury, 2025)

   Published: 4/8/2025
4. Roland Mayer, "The Ruins of Rome: A Cultural History" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

   Published: 4/7/2025
5. Sarah Bassett, "Style and Meaning in Late Antique Art" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

   Published: 3/31/2025
6. Rune Nyord, "Yearning for Immortality: The European Invention of the Ancient Egyptian Afterlife" (U Chicago Press, 2025)

   Published: 3/29/2025
7. William H. F. Altman, "Ascent to the Beautiful: Plato the Teacher and the Pre-Republic Dialogues from Protagoras to Symposium" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2020)

   Published: 3/26/2025
8. Sureshkumar Muthukumaran, "The Tropical Turn: Agricultural Innovation in the Ancient Middle East and the Mediterranean" (U California Press, 2023)

   Published: 3/23/2025
9. "T&T Clark Encyclopedia of Second Temple Judaism" (T&T Clark, 2019)

   Published: 3/21/2025
10. Managerial Bishops Rule! Peter Brown on Wealth in Early Christianity (JP)

    Published: 3/20/2025
11. Chance E. Bonar, "The Author in Early Christian Literature" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

    Published: 3/17/2025
12. Catalin-Stefan Popa, "The Making of Syriac Jerusalem" (Routledge, 2023)

    Published: 3/15/2025
13. Sumerian History with Marc Van De Mieroop

    Published: 3/14/2025
14. Selena Wisnom, "The Library of Ancient Wisdom: Mesopotamia and the Making of the Modern World" (U Chicago Press, 2025)

    Published: 3/13/2025
15. Daemons, Tantra, and Cultural Exchange with David Gordon White

    Published: 3/11/2025
16. Alexandra F. Morris, "Disability in Ptolemaic Egypt and the Hellenistic World: Plato’s Stepchildren" (Routledge, 2024)

    Published: 3/9/2025
17. Vera Tiesler, "Ancient Maya Teeth: Dental Modification, Cosmology, and Social Identity in Mesoamerica" (U Texas Press, 2024)

    Published: 3/5/2025
18. Isabel Moreira, "Balthild of Francia: Anglo-Saxon Slave, Merovingian Queen, and Abolitionist Saint" (Oxford UP, 2024)

    Published: 3/3/2025
19. Hallie Franks, "Ancient Sculpture and Twentieth-Century American Womanhood: Venus Envy" (Bloomsbury, 2025)

    Published: 3/2/2025
20. Ellen Fenzel Arnold, "Medieval Riverscapes: Environment and Memory in Northwest Europe, C. 300-1100" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

    Published: 3/1/2025