New Books in Ancient History

501 Episodes

1. Matthew R. Dasti, "Vatsyayana's Commentary on the Nyaya-Sutra: A Guide" (Oxford UP, 2023)

   Published: 9/20/2023
2. Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones, "Ancient Persia and the Book of Esther: Achaemenid Court Culture in the Hebrew Bible" (I. B. Tauris, 2023)

   Published: 9/14/2023
3. Christopher T. Fleming et al., "Science and Society in the Sanskrit World" (Brill, 2023)

   Published: 9/14/2023
4. Rebecca Kingston, "Plutarch's Prism: Classical Reception and Public Humanism in France and England, 1500–1800" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

   Published: 9/14/2023
5. A Better Way to Buy Books

   Published: 9/12/2023
6. Sarah Ruden, "Vergil: The Poet's Life" (Yale UP, 2023)

   Published: 9/10/2023
7. Jared Secord, "Christian Intellectuals and the Roman Empire: From Justin Martyr to Origen" (Penn State UP, 2020)

   Published: 9/9/2023
8. Ravi Gupta and Kenneth Valpey, "The Bhagavata Purana: Sacred Text and Living Tradition" (Columbia UP, 2013)

   Published: 9/6/2023
9. The Philosophy of Music and the Attunement of the Soul

   Published: 9/5/2023
10. Joshua Daniel Schachterle, "John Cassian and the Creation of Monastic Subjectivity" (Equinox Publishing, 2022)

    Published: 8/30/2023
11. Barbara Sattler, "The Concept of Motion in Ancient Greek Thought: Foundations in Logic, Method, and Mathematics" (Cambridge UP, 2020)

    Published: 8/28/2023
12. Peter Heather and John Rapley, "Why Empires Fall: Rome, America, and the Future of the West" (Yale UP, 2023)

    Published: 8/27/2023
13. Ari Finkelstein, "The Specter of the Jews: Emperor Julian and the Rhetoric of Ethnicity in Syrian Antioch" (U California Press, 2018)

    Published: 8/26/2023
14. Debbie Felton, "Monsters and Monarchs: Serial Killers in Classical Myth and History" (U Texas Press, 2021)

    Published: 8/14/2023
15. Michael Baltutis, "The Festival of Indra: Innovation, Archaism, and Revival in a South Asian Performance" (SUNY Press, 2023)

    Published: 8/3/2023
16. James Crossley and Robert J. Myles, "Jesus: A Life in Class Conflict" (Zero Books, 2023)

    Published: 8/2/2023
17. Ruth Yun-Ju Chen, "Good Formulas: Empirical Evidence in Mid-Imperial Chinese Medical Texts" (U Washington Press, 2023)

    Published: 8/2/2023
18. Timothy J. Christian, "Paul and the Rhetoric of Resurrection: 1 Corinthians 15 as Insinuatio" (Brill, 2022)

    Published: 7/31/2023
19. Yonatan Adler, "The Origins of Judaism: An Archaeological-Historical Reappraisal" (Yale UP, 2022)

    Published: 7/29/2023
20. Emily Katz Anhalt, "Embattled: How Ancient Greek Myths Empower Us to Resist Tyranny" (Redwood Press, 2021)

    Published: 7/11/2023