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William H. F. Altman, "Ascent to the Good: The Reading Order of Plato’s Dialogues from Symposium to Republic" (Lexington, 2018)
83 hours 12 mins; March 14, 2026
Jessica Clarke, "A New History of Ancient Roman Theatre" (Liverpool UP, 2025)
49 mins; March 13, 2026
Imperial Depths: Mark Letteney and Matthew Larsen on the Roman Prison System (JP)
49 mins; March 12, 2026
Kim Bowes, "Surviving Rome: The Economic Lives of the Ninety Percent" (Princeton UP, 2025)
61 hours 38 mins; March 12, 2026
The Augustan Revolution: On Ancient Rome with Reece Edmends
63 hours 25 mins; March 11, 2026
Warwick Ball, "Ancient Civilizations of Afghanistan: From the Earliest Times to the Mongol Conquest" (Reaktion, 2025)
46 mins; February 26, 2026
David Frankfurter ed., "Guide to the Study of Ancient Magic" (Brill, 2019)
39 mins; February 19, 2026
The Far Edges of the Known World: A New History of the Ancient Past
61 hours 23 mins; February 17, 2026
Caillan Davenport, "Behind Caesar's Back: Rumor, Gossip, and the Making of the Roman Emperors" (Yale UP, 2026)
45 mins; February 10, 2026
Arnoud S. Q. Visser, "On Pedantry: A Cultural History of the Know-it-All" (Princeton UP, 2025)
34 mins; February 02, 2026
Felege-Selam Solomon Yirga, "The Chronicle of John of Nikiu: Coping with Crisis in Post-Roman Egypt" (U California Press, 2025)
81 hours 15 mins; February 02, 2026
Vanessa R. Sasson, "The Gathering: A Story of the First Buddhist Women" (Equinox, 2023)
53 mins; February 01, 2026
Daniel Eastman An, "Fear of God: Practicing Emotion in Late Antique Monasticism" (U California Press, 2025)
38 mins; January 24, 2026
Sean Mathews, "The New Byzantines: The Rise of Greece and Return of the Near East" (Hurst, 2025)
45 mins; January 08, 2026
Johannes Zachhuber, "Gregory of Nyssa: on the Hexaemeron: Text, Translation, and Essays" (Oxford UP, 2025)
69 hours 13 mins; December 22, 2025
Charles Higham, "Early Southeast Asia: From First Humans to First Civilizations" (NUS Press, 2024)
63 hours 15 mins; December 01, 2025
Sarah F. Derbew, "Untangling Blackness in Greek Antiquity" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
64 hours 9 mins; December 01, 2025
Paulette F. C. Steeves, "The Indigenous Paleolithic of the Western Hemisphere" (U Nebraska Press, 2021)
40 mins; November 30, 2025
James Lacey, "Rome: Strategy of Empire" (Oxford UP, 2022)
59 mins; November 29, 2025
Nayanjot Lahiri, "Searching for Ashoka: Questing for a Buddhist King from India to Thailand" (SUNY Press, 2023)
47 mins; November 29, 2025
Sarah Ruden, "Vergil: The Poet's Life" (Yale UP, 2023)
65 hours 35 mins; November 28, 2025
Maia Kotrosits, "After Transformation: Rewriting Time, Christian Late Antiquity, and the Present" (Duke UP, 2025)
54 mins; November 24, 2025
Eric H. Cline, "Love, War, and Diplomacy: The Discovery of the Amarna Letters and the Bronze Age World They Revealed" (Princeton UP, 2025)
67 hours 5 mins; November 12, 2025
Ellen Muehlberger, "Things Unseen: Essays on Evidence, Knowledge, and the Late Ancient World" (U California Press, 2025)
76 hours 11 mins; November 10, 2025
Hugo Méndez, "The Gospel of John: A New History" (Oxford UP, 2025)
91 hours 9 mins; November 04, 2025
Jeremy Swist, "Julian Augustus: Platonism, Myth and the Refounding of Rome" (Oxford UP, 2025)
89 hours 40 mins; October 27, 2025
Jennifer Barry, "Gender Violence in Late Antiquity: Male Fantasies and the Christian Imagination" (U California Press, 2025)
32 mins; October 27, 2025
Michael B. Cosmopoulos, "The World of Homer: Archaeology, Social Memory, and the Emergence of Greek Epic Poetry" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
82 hours 8 mins; October 24, 2025
Angelos Chaniotis, "Age of Conquests: The Greek World from Alexander to Hadrian" (Harvard UP, 2018)
71 hours 35 mins; October 19, 2025
David Stasavage, "The Decline and Rise of Democracy: A Global History from Antiquity to Today" (Princeton UP, 2020)
39 mins; October 18, 2025
Moudhy Al-Rashid, "Between Two Rivers: Ancient Mesopotamia and the Birth of History" (W.W. Norton, 2025)
43 mins; October 16, 2025
Justin Stover and George Woudhuysen, "The Lost History of Sextus Aurelius Victor" (Edinburgh UP, 2023)
86 hours 32 mins; October 13, 2025
Karen Pechilis ed., "A Cultural History of Hinduism: Volumes 1-6" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
59 mins; October 09, 2025
William H. F. Altman, "The Revival of Platonism in Cicero's Late Philosophy: Platonis Aemulus and the Invention of Cicero" (Lexington Books, 2016)
119 hours 48 mins; September 30, 2025
Jennifer Barry, "Gender Violence in Late Antiquity: Male Fantasies and the Christian Imagination" (U California Press, 2025)
53 mins; September 29, 2025
Tiffany Earley-Spadoni, "Landscapes of Warfare: Urartu and Assyria in the Ancient Middle East" (UP Colorado, 2025)
39 mins; September 28, 2025
Stuart McHardy, "Scotland's Sacred Goddess: Hidden in Plain Sight" (Luath, 2025)
27 mins; September 21, 2025
Owen Rees, "The Far Edges of the Known World: Life Beyond the Borders of Ancient Civilization" (Norton, 2025)
84 hours 30 mins; September 15, 2025
“Plato and the Tyrant” with author James Romm
58 mins; September 13, 2025
Tiffany Earley-Spadoni, "Landscapes of Warfare: Urartu and Assyria in the Ancient Middle East" (UP of Colorado, 2025)
58 mins; September 04, 2025
Oswyn Murray, "The Muse of History: The Ancient Greeks from the Enlightenment to the Present" (Harvard UP, 2024)
62 hours 16 mins; September 03, 2025
Matthew D. C. Larsen and Mark Letteney, "Ancient Mediterranean Incarceration" (U California Press, 2025)
80 hours 39 mins; September 01, 2025
Francesca Stavrakopoulou, "God: An Anatomy" (Knopf, 2022)
44 mins; August 25, 2025
Walter Scheidel, "What Is Ancient History?" (Princeton UP, 2025)
61 hours 5 mins; August 25, 2025
Barbara H. Rosenwein, "Winter Dreams: A Historical Guide to Old Age" (Reaktion, 2025)
46 mins; August 23, 2025
Barry Strauss, "Jews vs. Rome: Two Centuries of Rebellion Against the World's Mightiest Empire" (Simon & Schuster, 2025)
44 mins; August 19, 2025
Learning Ancient Languages: A Conversation with Antonia Ruppel
97 hours 18 mins; August 18, 2025
Audrey Truschke, "India: 5,000 Years of History on the Subcontinent" (Princeton UP, 2025)
44 mins; August 14, 2025
Tatiana Bur, "Technologies of the Marvellous in Ancient Greek Religion" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
55 mins; August 11, 2025
Robert Morstein-Marx, "Julius Caesar and the Roman People" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
87 hours 12 mins; August 04, 2025
David Chaffetz, "Raiders, Rulers, and Traders: The Horse and the Rise of Empires" (Norton, 2025)
47 mins; August 03, 2025
The Nomadic Origin of the State
73 hours 26 mins; August 01, 2025
Joanna Jurewicz, "Invisible Fire: Memory, Tradition and the Self in Early Hindu Philosophy" (2021)
51 mins; July 31, 2025
Scott Pearce, "Northern Wei (386-534): A New Form of Empire in East Asia" (Oxford UP, 2023)
74 hours 11 mins; July 30, 2025
Dan-el Padilla Peralta, "Classicism and Other Phobias" (Princeton UP, 2025)
50 mins; July 30, 2025
Caroline Johnson Hodge, "The God of This House: Christian Domestic Cult Before Constantine" (Penn State UP, 2025)
64 hours 45 mins; July 28, 2025
Ory Amitay, "Alexander the Great in Jerusalem: Myth and History" (Oxford UP, 2025)
46 mins; July 23, 2025
Audrey Truschke, "India: 5,000 Years of History on the Subcontinent" (Princeton UP, 2025)
78 hours 56 mins; July 22, 2025
Nicholas Thomas, "Voyagers: The Settlement of the Pacific" (Apollo, 2020)
56 mins; July 20, 2025
How ClioVis is Transforming Education and Historical Research
22 mins; July 19, 2025
Anastasios Karababas, "In the Footsteps of the Jews of Greece: From Ancient Times to the Present Day" (Vallentine Mitchell & Co, 2024)
41 mins; July 16, 2025
Ian Stewart, "The Celts: A Modern History" (Princeton UP, 2025)
60 hours 33 mins; July 15, 2025
Andrew Tobolowsky, "Israel and its Heirs in Late Antiquity" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
57 mins; July 07, 2025
J. P. Mallory, "The Indo-Europeans Rediscovered: How a Scientific Revolution Is Rewriting Their Story" (Thames & Hudson, 2025)
45 mins; June 26, 2025
Emily Hauser, "Penelope’s Bones: A New History of Homer’s World through the Women Written Out of It" (Univ of Chicago Press, 2025)
51 mins; June 19, 2025
Stefanie Lenk, "Roman Identity and Lived Religion: Baptismal Art in Late Antiquity" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
44 mins; June 09, 2025
Robert Garland, "What to Expect When You're Dead: An Ancient Tour of Death and the Afterlife" (Princeton UP, 2025)
49 mins; June 02, 2025
Laura Spinney, "Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
46 mins; May 29, 2025
Krista N. Dalton, "How Rabbis Became Experts: Social Circles and Donor Networks in Jewish Late Antiquity" (Princeton UP, 2025)
52 mins; May 28, 2025
Jennifer T. Roberts, "Out of One, Many: Ancient Greek Ways of Thought and Culture" (Princeton UP, 2024)
95 hours 33 mins; May 24, 2025
Richard D. Oram, "A Land Won from Waste: Scotland AD 400-1400" (Birlinn, 2025)
59 mins; May 24, 2025
Korshi Dosoo and Markéta Preininger, "Papyri Copticae Magicae: Coptic Magical Texts, Volume 1: Formularies" (de Gruyter, 2023)
85 hours 50 mins; May 23, 2025
Timothy A. Lee, "The Syriac Peshiṭta Bible: The New Testament" (Gorgias Press, 2023)
29 mins; May 17, 2025
Pāṇḍitya: Mapping Sanskrit Texts Online
47 mins; May 15, 2025
Elaine Pagels, "Miracles and Wonder:The Historical Mystery of Jesus" (Doubleday, 2025)
38 mins; May 13, 2025
Andrew Griebeler, "Botanical Icons: Critical Practices of Illustration in the Premodern Mediterranean" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
61 hours 24 mins; May 12, 2025
Andrew Ollett, "The Mirror of Ornaments (Alaṅkāradappaṇō): A Prakrit Work of Poetics" (UniorPress, 2025)
53 mins; May 08, 2025
Brendan Haug, "Garden of Egypt: Irrigation, Society, and the State in the Premodern Fayyūm" (U Michigan Press, 2024)
57 mins; May 06, 2025
Donald S. Prudlo, "Governing Perfection" (St. Augustine's Press, 2024)
23 mins; May 03, 2025
Paul Chrystal, "Miracula: Weird and Wonderful Stories of Ancient Greece and Rome" (Reaktion, 2025)
56 mins; May 02, 2025
Christy Cobb and Katherine A. Shaner, "Ancient Slavery and Its New Testament Contexts" (Eerdmans, 2025)
68 hours 57 mins; May 01, 2025
Monika Amsler, "The Babylonian Talmud and Late Antique Book Culture" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
63 hours 42 mins; April 30, 2025
Laura Spinney, "Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
53 mins; April 29, 2025
Cam Grey, "Living with Risk in the Late Roman World" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2025)
71 hours 26 mins; April 28, 2025
Annalisa Marzano, "Plants, Politics and Empire in Ancient Rome" (Cambridge UP. 2022)
47 mins; April 27, 2025
Shushma Malik, "The Nero-Antichrist: Founding and Fashioning a Paradigm" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
42 mins; April 21, 2025
Stolen Fragments: Black Markets, Bad Faith, and the Illicit Trade in Ancient Artefacts
56 mins; April 18, 2025
John Nemec, "Brahmins and Kings: Royal Counsel in the Sanskrit Narrative Literatures" (Oxford UP, 2025)
51 mins; April 17, 2025
Andrew Wallace-Hadrill, "The Idea of the City in Late Antiquity: A Study in Resilience" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
72 hours 19 mins; April 16, 2025
Mara Nicosia, "Syriac Lexis and Lexica: Compiling Ancient and Modern Vocabularies" (Gorgias Press, 2024)
58 mins; April 14, 2025
Christian Sheppard, "The Ancient Wisdom of Baseball: Lessons for Life from Homer's Odyssey to the World Series" (Greenleaf, 2025)
58 mins; April 10, 2025
William Dalrymple, "The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
38 mins; April 08, 2025
Roland Mayer, "The Ruins of Rome: A Cultural History" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
73 hours 30 mins; April 07, 2025
Sarah Bassett, "Style and Meaning in Late Antique Art" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
77 hours 15 mins; March 31, 2025
Rune Nyord, "Yearning for Immortality: The European Invention of the Ancient Egyptian Afterlife" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
50 mins; March 29, 2025
William H. F. Altman, "Ascent to the Beautiful: Plato the Teacher and the Pre-Republic Dialogues from Protagoras to Symposium" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2020)
136 hours 56 mins; March 26, 2025
Sureshkumar Muthukumaran, "The Tropical Turn: Agricultural Innovation in the Ancient Middle East and the Mediterranean" (U California Press, 2023)
41 mins; March 23, 2025
"T&T Clark Encyclopedia of Second Temple Judaism" (T&T Clark, 2019)
30 mins; March 21, 2025
Managerial Bishops Rule! Peter Brown on Wealth in Early Christianity (JP)
50 mins; March 20, 2025
Chance E. Bonar, "The Author in Early Christian Literature" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
48 mins; March 17, 2025
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