New Books in Ancient History

501 Episodes

1. 81* David Ferry, Roger Reeves, and the Underworld

   Published: 5/19/2022
2. Ferenc Hörcher, "The Political Philosophy of the European City: From Polis, Through City-State, to Megalopolis?" (Lexington Book, 2021)

   Published: 5/16/2022
3. Bruce Clark, "Athens: City of Wisdom" (Pegasus Books, 2022)

   Published: 5/9/2022
4. The Importance of Pali, the Language of Ancient Buddhism

   Published: 5/4/2022
5. Roderick Beaton, "The Greeks: A Global History" (Basic Books, 2021)

   Published: 5/2/2022
6. Rachel Hall Sternberg, "The Ancient Greek Roots of Human Rights" (U Texas Press, 2021)

   Published: 4/26/2022
7. 79* Madeline Miller on Circe (GT, JP)

   Published: 4/21/2022
8. On Why Socrates Died

   Published: 4/14/2022
9. Patrick Olivelle, "Grhastha: The Householder in Ancient Indian Religious Culture" (Oxford UP, 2019)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    Published: 3/14/2022
19. 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
20. Pratik Chakrabarti, "Inscriptions of Nature: Geology and the Naturalization of Antiquity" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2020)

    Published: 3/10/2022