New Books in Ancient History

629 Episodes

1. Shushma Malik, "The Nero-Antichrist: Founding and Fashioning a Paradigm" (Cambridge UP, 2020)

   Published: 21/04/2025
2. Stolen Fragments: Black Markets, Bad Faith, and the Illicit Trade in Ancient Artefacts

   Published: 18/04/2025
3. John Nemec, "Brahmins and Kings: Royal Counsel in the Sanskrit Narrative Literatures" (Oxford UP, 2025)

   Published: 17/04/2025
4. Andrew Wallace-Hadrill, "The Idea of the City in Late Antiquity: A Study in Resilience" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

   Published: 16/04/2025
5. Mara Nicosia, "Syriac Lexis and Lexica: Compiling Ancient and Modern Vocabularies" (Gorgias Press, 2024)

   Published: 14/04/2025
6. Christian Sheppard, "The Ancient Wisdom of Baseball: Lessons for Life from Homer's Odyssey to the World Series" (Greenleaf, 2025)

   Published: 10/04/2025
7. William Dalrymple, "The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World" (Bloomsbury, 2025)

   Published: 08/04/2025
8. Roland Mayer, "The Ruins of Rome: A Cultural History" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

   Published: 07/04/2025
9. Sarah Bassett, "Style and Meaning in Late Antique Art" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

   Published: 31/03/2025
10. Rune Nyord, "Yearning for Immortality: The European Invention of the Ancient Egyptian Afterlife" (U Chicago Press, 2025)

    Published: 29/03/2025
11. William H. F. Altman, "Ascent to the Beautiful: Plato the Teacher and the Pre-Republic Dialogues from Protagoras to Symposium" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2020)

    Published: 26/03/2025
12. Sureshkumar Muthukumaran, "The Tropical Turn: Agricultural Innovation in the Ancient Middle East and the Mediterranean" (U California Press, 2023)

    Published: 23/03/2025
13. "T&T Clark Encyclopedia of Second Temple Judaism" (T&T Clark, 2019)

    Published: 21/03/2025
14. Managerial Bishops Rule! Peter Brown on Wealth in Early Christianity (JP)

    Published: 20/03/2025
15. Chance E. Bonar, "The Author in Early Christian Literature" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

    Published: 17/03/2025
16. Catalin-Stefan Popa, "The Making of Syriac Jerusalem" (Routledge, 2023)

    Published: 15/03/2025
17. Sumerian History with Marc Van De Mieroop

    Published: 14/03/2025
18. Selena Wisnom, "The Library of Ancient Wisdom: Mesopotamia and the Making of the Modern World" (U Chicago Press, 2025)

    Published: 13/03/2025
19. Daemons, Tantra, and Cultural Exchange with David Gordon White

    Published: 11/03/2025
20. Alexandra F. Morris, "Disability in Ptolemaic Egypt and the Hellenistic World: Plato’s Stepchildren" (Routledge, 2024)

    Published: 09/03/2025