New Books in Ancient History

636 Episodes

1. Rachel Hall Sternberg, "The Ancient Greek Roots of Human Rights" (U Texas Press, 2021)

   Published: 4/26/2022
2. 79* Madeline Miller on Circe (GT, JP)

   Published: 4/21/2022
3. Patrick Olivelle, "Grhastha: The Householder in Ancient Indian Religious Culture" (Oxford UP, 2019)

   Published: 4/14/2022
4. On Why Socrates Died

   Published: 4/14/2022
5. On Middle Eastern Archaeology and the Historical Jesus

   Published: 4/11/2022
6. Adrian J. Pearce et al., "Rethinking the Andes-Amazonia Divide. A Cross-Disciplinary Exploration" (UCL Press, 2020)

   Published: 4/11/2022
7. Paul Stephenson, "New Rome: The Empire in the East" (Harvard UP, 2022)

   Published: 4/6/2022
8. Robert Morstein-Marx, "Julius Caesar and the Roman People" (Cambridge UP, 2021)

   Published: 4/4/2022
9. Tao Jiang, "Origins of Moral-Political Philosophy in Early China: Contestation of Humaneness, Justice, and Personal Freedom" (Oxford UP, 2021)

   Published: 3/24/2022
10. The Samaritans: A Biblical People

    Published: 3/23/2022
11. John W. I. Lee, "The First Black Archaeologist: A Life of John Wesley Gilbert" (Oxford UP, 2022)

    Published: 3/21/2022
12. Wendy E. S. North, "What John Knew and What John Wrote: A Study in John and the Synoptics" (Fortress, 2020)

    Published: 3/18/2022
13. Carolina López-Ruiz, "Phoenicians and the Making of the Mediterranean" (Harvard UP, 2021)

    Published: 3/14/2022
14. Friederike Assandri, "The Daode jing Commentary of Cheng Xuanying: Daoism, Buddhism, and the Laozi in the Tang Dynasty" (Oxford UP, 2021)

    Published: 3/14/2022
15. Pratik Chakrabarti, "Inscriptions of Nature: Geology and the Naturalization of Antiquity" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2020)

    Published: 3/10/2022
16. James McHugh, "An Unholy Brew: Alcohol in Indian Religion and History" (Oxford UP, 2021)

    Published: 3/3/2022
17. Konrad Schmid and Jens Schröter, "The Making of the Bible: From the First Fragments to Sacred Scripture" (Harvard UP, 2021)

    Published: 3/3/2022
18. Olivia Milburn, "The Empress in the Pepper Chamber: Zhao Feiyan in History and Fiction" (U Washington Press, 2021)

    Published: 3/1/2022
19. Erica Brown, "Esther: Power, Fate and Fragility in Exile" (Maggid, 2020)

    Published: 2/25/2022
20. Eviatar Shulman, "Visions of the Buddha: Creative Dimensions of Early Buddhist Scripture" (Oxford UP, 2021)

    Published: 2/23/2022