New Books in Ancient History

645 Episodes

1. Simcha Gross, "Babylonian Jews and Sasanian Imperialism in Late Antiquity" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

   Published: 10/15/2024
2. Helena Taylor, "Women Writing Antiquity: Gender and Learning in Early Modern France" (Oxford UP, 2024)

   Published: 10/13/2024
3. The Ideology of Democratic Athens

   Published: 10/8/2024
4. James A. Anderson, "The Dong World and Imperial China's Southwest Silk Road: Trade, Security, and State Formation" (U Washington Press, 2024)

   Published: 9/30/2024
5. Darlene L. Brooks Hedstrom, "Desert Ascetics of Egypt" (ARC Humanities Press, 2020)

   Published: 9/30/2024
6. William T. Taylor, "Hoof Beats: How Horses Shaped Human History" (U California Press, 2024)

   Published: 9/29/2024
7. William H. F. Altman, "Plato the Teacher: The Crisis of the Republic" (Lexington, 2012)

   Published: 9/24/2024
8. Rafal K. Stepien, "Buddhism Between Religion and Philosophy: Nāgārjuna and the Ethics of Emptiness" (Oxford UP, 2024)

   Published: 9/24/2024
9. Philip Freeman, "Julian: Rome's Last Pagan Emperor" (Yale UP, 2023)

   Published: 9/16/2024
10. John Schofield, "Wicked Problems for Archaeologists: Heritage as Transformative Practice" (Oxford UP, 2024)

    Published: 9/15/2024
11. Theodore Papakostas, "How to Fit All of Ancient Greece in an Elevator" (William Collins, 2024)

    Published: 9/14/2024
12. Martha Rampton, "Trafficking with Demons: Magic, Ritual, and Gender from Late Antiquity to 1000" (Cornell UP, 2021)

    Published: 9/9/2024
13. Paul J. Kosmin, "Time and Its Adversaries in the Seleucid Empire" (Harvard UP, 2018)

    Published: 9/7/2024
14. Jeannine Hanger, "Sensing Salvation in the Gospel of John: The Embodied, Sensory Qualities of Participation in the I Am Sayings" (Brill, 2023)

    Published: 9/6/2024
15. David Chaffetz, "Raiders, Rulers, and Traders: The Horse and the Rise of Empires" (Norton, 2024)

    Published: 9/5/2024
16. Julia Kindt, "The Trojan Horse and Other Stories: Ten Ancient Creatures That Make Us Human" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

    Published: 9/4/2024
17. Violet Moller, "The Map of Knowledge: A Thousand-Year History of How Classical Ideas Were Lost and Found" (Doubleday, 2019)

    Published: 9/2/2024
18. Laura Salah Nasrallah, "Ancient Christians and the Power of Curses: Magic, Aesthetics, and Justice" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

    Published: 9/2/2024
19. Karl Hoffmann and Johanna Narten, "Vedic Sentences: Edited from the Literary Estate" (Heidelberg Asian Studies, 2024)

    Published: 8/26/2024
20. Scott Harrower, "Trauma and Recovery in Early North African Christianity" (Medieval Institute Publications, 2024)

    Published: 8/25/2024