New Books in Ancient History

632 Episodes

1. On "Genesis"

   Published: 12/7/2022
2. Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad, "Human Being, Bodily Being: Phenomenology from Classical India" (Oxford UP, 2021)

   Published: 12/1/2022
3. Nathanael Aschenbrenner and Jake Ransohoff, "The Invention of Byzantium in Early Modern Europe" (Dumbarton Oaks, 2021)

   Published: 11/30/2022
4. On "The Mahābhārata"

   Published: 11/23/2022
5. Eric Vanden Eykel, "The Magi: Who They Were, How They've Been Remembered, and Why They Still Fascinate" (Fortress Press, 2022)

   Published: 11/21/2022
6. Samuel J. Levine, "Was Yosef on the Spectrum?: Understanding Joseph Through Torah, Midrash, and Classical Jewish Sources" (Urim Publications, 2018)

   Published: 11/18/2022
7. Ahmad Al-Jallad, "The Religion and Rituals of the Nomads of Pre-Islamic Arabia: A Reconstruction Based on the Safaitic Inscriptions" (Brill, 2022)

   Published: 11/17/2022
8. Ruth Vanita, "The Dharma of Justice in the Sanskrit Epics" (Oxford UP, 2021)

   Published: 11/17/2022
9. James Mallinson and Péter-Dániel Szántó, "The Amṛtasiddhi and Amṛtasiddhimūla: The Earliest Texts of the Haṭhayoga Tradition" (Institut français de Pondichéry, 2021)

   Published: 11/16/2022
10. On Boethius' "The Consolation of Philosophy"

    Published: 11/16/2022
11. Francesca Stavrakopoulou, "God: An Anatomy" (Knopf, 2022)

    Published: 11/14/2022
12. John Darnell and Colleen Darnell, "Egypt's Golden Couple: When Akhenaten and Nefertiti Were Gods on Earth" (St. Martin's Press, 2022)

    Published: 11/11/2022
13. On Thucydides' "History of the Peloponnesian War"

    Published: 11/10/2022
14. On Augustine's "Confessions"

    Published: 10/31/2022
15. John Stillwell, "The Story of Proof: Logic and the History of Mathematics" (Princeton UP, 2022)

    Published: 10/31/2022
16. Benjamin Parris, "Vital Strife: Sleep, Insomnia, and the Early Modern Ethics of Care" (Cornell UP, 2022)

    Published: 10/28/2022
17. On Cicero's "On Friendship"

    Published: 10/28/2022
18. Anthony J. Barbieri-Low, "The Many Lives of the First Emperor of China" (U Washington Press, 2022)

    Published: 10/27/2022
19. Robin Waterfield, trans. and ed., "The Complete Works of Epictetus: Handbook, Discourses, and Fragments" (U Chicago Press, 2022)

    Published: 10/18/2022
20. P. De Vries, "The Kābôd of Yhwh in the Old Testament: With Particular Reference to the Book of Ezekiel" (Brill, 2015)

    Published: 10/17/2022