New Books in Ancient History

621 Episodes

1. Pāṇḍitya: Mapping Sanskrit Texts Online

   Published: 5/15/2025
2. Elaine Pagels, "Miracles and Wonder:The Historical Mystery of Jesus" (Doubleday, 2025)

   Published: 5/13/2025
3. Andrew Griebeler, "Botanical Icons: Critical Practices of Illustration in the Premodern Mediterranean" (U Chicago Press, 2024)

   Published: 5/12/2025
4. Andrew Ollett, "The Mirror of Ornaments (Alaṅkāradappaṇō): A Prakrit Work of Poetics" (UniorPress, 2025)

   Published: 5/8/2025
5. Brendan Haug, "Garden of Egypt: Irrigation, Society, and the State in the Premodern Fayyūm" (U Michigan Press, 2024)

   Published: 5/6/2025
6. Donald S. Prudlo, "Governing Perfection" (St. Augustine's Press, 2024)

   Published: 5/3/2025
7. Paul Chrystal, "Miracula: Weird and Wonderful Stories of Ancient Greece and Rome" (Reaktion, 2025)

   Published: 5/2/2025
8. Christy Cobb and Katherine A. Shaner, "Ancient Slavery and Its New Testament Contexts" (Eerdmans, 2025)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    Published: 4/7/2025