New Books in Ancient History
A podcast by New Books Network
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501 Episodes
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81* David Ferry, Roger Reeves, and the Underworld
Published: 5/19/2022 -
Ferenc Hörcher, "The Political Philosophy of the European City: From Polis, Through City-State, to Megalopolis?" (Lexington Book, 2021)
Published: 5/16/2022 -
Bruce Clark, "Athens: City of Wisdom" (Pegasus Books, 2022)
Published: 5/9/2022 -
The Importance of Pali, the Language of Ancient Buddhism
Published: 5/4/2022 -
Roderick Beaton, "The Greeks: A Global History" (Basic Books, 2021)
Published: 5/2/2022 -
Rachel Hall Sternberg, "The Ancient Greek Roots of Human Rights" (U Texas Press, 2021)
Published: 4/26/2022 -
79* Madeline Miller on Circe (GT, JP)
Published: 4/21/2022 -
On Why Socrates Died
Published: 4/14/2022 -
Patrick Olivelle, "Grhastha: The Householder in Ancient Indian Religious Culture" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Published: 4/14/2022 -
On Middle Eastern Archaeology and the Historical Jesus
Published: 4/11/2022 -
Adrian J. Pearce et al., "Rethinking the Andes-Amazonia Divide. A Cross-Disciplinary Exploration" (UCL Press, 2020)
Published: 4/11/2022 -
Paul Stephenson, "New Rome: The Empire in the East" (Harvard UP, 2022)
Published: 4/6/2022 -
Robert Morstein-Marx, "Julius Caesar and the Roman People" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Published: 4/4/2022 -
Tao Jiang, "Origins of Moral-Political Philosophy in Early China: Contestation of Humaneness, Justice, and Personal Freedom" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Published: 3/24/2022 -
The Samaritans: A Biblical People
Published: 3/23/2022 -
John W. I. Lee, "The First Black Archaeologist: A Life of John Wesley Gilbert" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Published: 3/21/2022 -
Wendy E. S. North, "What John Knew and What John Wrote: A Study in John and the Synoptics" (Fortress, 2020)
Published: 3/18/2022 -
Carolina López-Ruiz, "Phoenicians and the Making of the Mediterranean" (Harvard UP, 2021)
Published: 3/14/2022 -
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 -
Pratik Chakrabarti, "Inscriptions of Nature: Geology and the Naturalization of Antiquity" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2020)
Published: 3/10/2022
Interview with scholars of the Ancient World about their new books