New Books in Ancient History
A podcast by New Books Network
645 Episodes
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Tatiana Bur, "Technologies of the Marvellous in Ancient Greek Religion" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
Published: 11/08/2025 -
Robert Morstein-Marx, "Julius Caesar and the Roman People" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Published: 04/08/2025 -
David Chaffetz, "Raiders, Rulers, and Traders: The Horse and the Rise of Empires" (Norton, 2025)
Published: 03/08/2025 -
The Nomadic Origin of the State
Published: 01/08/2025 -
Joanna Jurewicz, "Invisible Fire: Memory, Tradition and the Self in Early Hindu Philosophy" (2021)
Published: 31/07/2025 -
Scott Pearce, "Northern Wei (386-534): A New Form of Empire in East Asia" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Published: 30/07/2025 -
Dan-el Padilla Peralta, "Classicism and Other Phobias" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Published: 30/07/2025 -
Caroline Johnson Hodge, "The God of This House: Christian Domestic Cult Before Constantine" (Penn State UP, 2025)
Published: 28/07/2025 -
Ory Amitay, "Alexander the Great in Jerusalem: Myth and History" (Oxford UP, 2025)
Published: 23/07/2025 -
Audrey Truschke, "India: 5,000 Years of History on the Subcontinent" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Published: 22/07/2025 -
Nicholas Thomas, "Voyagers: The Settlement of the Pacific" (Apollo, 2020)
Published: 20/07/2025 -
How ClioVis is Transforming Education and Historical Research
Published: 19/07/2025 -
Anastasios Karababas, "In the Footsteps of the Jews of Greece: From Ancient Times to the Present Day" (Vallentine Mitchell & Co, 2024)
Published: 16/07/2025 -
Ian Stewart, "The Celts: A Modern History" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Published: 15/07/2025 -
Andrew Tobolowsky, "Israel and its Heirs in Late Antiquity" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
Published: 07/07/2025 -
J. P. Mallory, "The Indo-Europeans Rediscovered: How a Scientific Revolution Is Rewriting Their Story" (Thames & Hudson, 2025)
Published: 26/06/2025 -
Emily Hauser, "Penelope’s Bones: A New History of Homer’s World through the Women Written Out of It" (Univ of Chicago Press, 2025)
Published: 19/06/2025 -
Stefanie Lenk, "Roman Identity and Lived Religion: Baptismal Art in Late Antiquity" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
Published: 09/06/2025 -
Robert Garland, "What to Expect When You're Dead: An Ancient Tour of Death and the Afterlife" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Published: 02/06/2025 -
Laura Spinney, "Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
Published: 29/05/2025
Interview with scholars of the Ancient World about their new books