New Books in Ancient History

501 Episodes

1. Anthony Sattin, "Nomads: The Wanderers Who Shaped Our World" (Norton, 2022)

   Published: 9/26/2022
2. Richard Salomon, "The Buddhist Literature of Ancient Gandhāra: An Introduction with Selected Translation" (Wisdom Publications, 2018)

   Published: 9/22/2022
3. On Plato's "Apology"

   Published: 9/19/2022
4. Sara Ronis, "Demons in the Details: Demonic Discourse and Rabbinic Culture in Late Antique Babylonia" (U California Press, 2022)

   Published: 9/19/2022
5. Material Matters: Reflections on the History of Settlement Development Across Mainland Southeast Asia

   Published: 9/15/2022
6. On Plato's "The Republic"

   Published: 9/12/2022
7. Kimberley Czajkowski and Benedikt Eckhardt, "Herod in History: Nicolaus of Damascus and the Augustan Context" (Oxford UP, 2021)

   Published: 9/12/2022
8. Seth M. Ehorn, "Exodus in the New Testament" (T&T Clark, 2022)

   Published: 9/9/2022
9. On Homer's "The Iliad"

   Published: 8/30/2022
10. Greg Woolf, "The Life and Death of Ancient Cities: A Natural History" (Oxford UP, 2020)

    Published: 8/29/2022
11. Paul Robichaud, "Pan: The Great God’s Modern Return" (Reaktion Books, 2021)

    Published: 8/18/2022
12. James Lacey, "Rome: Strategy of Empire" (Oxford UP, 2022)

    Published: 8/17/2022
13. Johanna Drucker, "Inventing the Alphabet: The Origins of Letters from Antiquity to the Present" (U Chicago Press, 2022)

    Published: 8/17/2022
14. Matthew Mark Silver, "The History of Galilee, 47 BCE to 1260 CE: From Josephus and Jesus to the Crusades" (Lexington Books, 2021)

    Published: 8/13/2022
15. On "The Great Learning"

    Published: 8/11/2022
16. Ari D. Kahn, "The Crowns on the Letters: Essays on the Aggada and the Lives of the Sages" (OU Press, 2020)

    Published: 8/10/2022
17. Kim Haines-Eitzen, "Sonorous Desert: What Deep Listening Taught Early Christian Monks—and What It Can Teach Us" (Princeton UP, 2022)

    Published: 8/8/2022
18. Jason A. Staples, "The Idea of 'Israel' in Second Temple Judaism: A New Theory of People, Exile, and Israelite Identity" (Cambridge UP, 2021)

    Published: 8/8/2022
19. Wendy Doniger, "After the War: The Last Books of the Mahabharata" (Oxford UP, 2022)

    Published: 8/2/2022
20. David Konstan, "The Origin of Sin: Greece and Rome, Early Judaism and Christianity" (Bloomsbury, 2022)

    Published: 7/28/2022