New Books in Ancient History

501 Episodes

1. Peter Scharf, "Ramopakhyana - the Story of Rama in the Mahabharata" (Routledge, 2023)

   Published: 4/11/2024
2. Hume, the Epicureans, and the Origins of Liberalism

   Published: 4/10/2024
3. Matthew Robertson, "Puruṣa: Personhood in Ancient India" (Oxford UP, 2024)

   Published: 4/9/2024
4. Anthony Kaldellis, "The New Roman Empire: A History of Byzantium" (Oxford UP, 2024)

   Published: 4/7/2024
5. Michael LeFebvre, "Collections, Codes, and Torah: The Re-characterization of Israel's Written Law" (Bloomsbury, 2019)

   Published: 4/6/2024
6. Patrick Olivelle, "Ashoka: Portrait of a Philosopher King" (Yale UP, 2024)

   Published: 4/4/2024
7. Georgia Frank, "Unfinished Christians: Ritual Objects and Silent Subjects in Late Antiquity" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)

   Published: 4/3/2024
8. Stefanos Geroulanos, "The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origins" (Liveright, 2024)

   Published: 3/31/2024
9. Citizenship Across Time and Space with David Jacobson

   Published: 3/28/2024
10. Robin Waterfield, "Plato of Athens: A Life in Philosophy" (Oxford UP, 2023)

    Published: 3/28/2024
11. Shakuntala Gawde, "Narrative Analysis of Bhagavata Purana: Selected Episodes from the Tenth Skandha" (Dev Publishers, 2023)

    Published: 3/21/2024
12. David Ferry, Roger Reeves, and the Underworld

    Published: 3/21/2024
13. Colin Elliott, "Pox Romana: The Plague That Shook the Roman World" (Princeton UP, 2024)

    Published: 3/19/2024
14. Robin Baker, "Hollow Men, Strange Women: Riddles, Codes, and Otherness in the Book of Judges" (Brill, 2016)

    Published: 3/16/2024
15. Myrto Garani et al., "The Oxford Handbook of Roman Philosophy" (Oxford UP, 2023)

    Published: 3/9/2024
16. Patrick Olivelle, "Ashoka: Portrait of a Philosopher King" (Yale UP, 2024)

    Published: 3/8/2024
17. Jean-Manuel Roubineau, "The Dangerous Life and Ideas of Diogenes the Cynic" (Oxford UP, 2023)

    Published: 3/4/2024
18. Marchella Ward, "Blindness and Spectatorship in Ancient and Modern Theatres: Towards New Ways of Looking and Looking Back" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

    Published: 3/1/2024
19. Obert Bernard Mlambo, "Land Expropriation in Ancient Rome and Contemporary Zimbabwe: Veterans, Masculinity and War" (Bloomsbury, 2022)

    Published: 2/27/2024
20. T. Corey Brennan, "The Fasces: A History of Ancient Rome's Most Dangerous Political Symbol" (Oxford UP, 2022)

    Published: 2/21/2024