New Books in Ancient History

632 Episodes

1. Roberto Morales-Harley, "The Embassy, the Ambush, and the Ogre: Greco-Roman Influence in Sanskrit Theater” (Open Book, 2024)

   Published: 11/7/2024
2. Toni Alimi, "Slaves of God: Augustine and Other Romans on Religion and Politics" (Princeton UP, 2024)

   Published: 10/28/2024
3. Vicente Dobroruka, "Second Temple Pseudepigraphy: A Cross-cultural Comparison of Apocalyptic Texts and Related Jewish Literature" (de Gruyter, 2014)

   Published: 10/25/2024
4. Dominick Hernández, "The Prosperity of the Wicked: A Theological Challenge in the Book of Job and in Ancient Near Eastern Literature" (Gorgias Press, 2022)

   Published: 10/24/2024
5. Bruce Gordon, "The Bible: A Global History" (Basic Books, 2024)

   Published: 10/19/2024
6. William T. Taylor, "Hoof Beats: How Horses Shaped Human History" (U California Press, 2024)

   Published: 10/17/2024
7. Simcha Gross, "Babylonian Jews and Sasanian Imperialism in Late Antiquity" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

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

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

   Published: 10/8/2024
10. Darlene L. Brooks Hedstrom, "Desert Ascetics of Egypt" (ARC Humanities Press, 2020)

    Published: 9/30/2024
11. 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
12. William T. Taylor, "Hoof Beats: How Horses Shaped Human History" (U California Press, 2024)

    Published: 9/29/2024
13. Rafal K. Stepien, "Buddhism Between Religion and Philosophy: Nāgārjuna and the Ethics of Emptiness" (Oxford UP, 2024)

    Published: 9/24/2024
14. William H. F. Altman, "Plato the Teacher: The Crisis of the Republic" (Lexington, 2012)

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

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

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

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

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

    Published: 9/7/2024
20. 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