New Books in Ancient History

634 Episodes

1. Christy Cobb and Katherine A. Shaner, "Ancient Slavery and Its New Testament Contexts" (Eerdmans, 2025)

   Published: 5/1/2025
2. Monika Amsler, "The Babylonian Talmud and Late Antique Book Culture" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

   Published: 4/30/2025
3. Laura Spinney, "Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global" (Bloomsbury, 2025)

   Published: 4/29/2025
4. Cam Grey, "Living with Risk in the Late Roman World" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2025)

   Published: 4/28/2025
5. Annalisa Marzano, "Plants, Politics and Empire in Ancient Rome" (Cambridge UP. 2022)

   Published: 4/27/2025
6. Shushma Malik, "The Nero-Antichrist: Founding and Fashioning a Paradigm" (Cambridge UP, 2020)

   Published: 4/21/2025
7. Stolen Fragments: Black Markets, Bad Faith, and the Illicit Trade in Ancient Artefacts

   Published: 4/18/2025
8. John Nemec, "Brahmins and Kings: Royal Counsel in the Sanskrit Narrative Literatures" (Oxford UP, 2025)

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

   Published: 4/16/2025
10. Mara Nicosia, "Syriac Lexis and Lexica: Compiling Ancient and Modern Vocabularies" (Gorgias Press, 2024)

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

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

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

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

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

    Published: 3/29/2025
16. 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
17. Sureshkumar Muthukumaran, "The Tropical Turn: Agricultural Innovation in the Ancient Middle East and the Mediterranean" (U California Press, 2023)

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

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

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

    Published: 3/17/2025