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New Books in Ancient History
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Sarah Nooter, "How to Be Queer: An Ancient Guide to Sexuality" (Princeton UP, 2024)
30 mins; June 02, 2024
David S. Richeson, "Tales of Impossibility: The 2000-Year Quest to Solve the Mathematical Problems of Antiquity" (Princeton UP, 2019)
54 mins; May 28, 2024
Jeromeā€™s Tears (with David Bonagura Jr.): Death and Mourning in Christian Late Antiquity
45 mins; May 24, 2024
Arjen F. Bakker, "The Secret of Time: Reconfiguring Wisdom in the Dead Sea Scrolls" (Brill, 2023)
68 hours 37 mins; May 23, 2024
Andrea Cucchiarelli, "A Commentary on Virgil's Eclogues" (Oxford UP, 2023)
48 mins; May 21, 2024
Wally V. Cirafesi, "John Within Judaism: Religion, Ethnicity, and the Shaping of Jesus-Oriented Jewishness in the Fourth Gospel" (Brill, 2021)
21 mins; May 21, 2024
Christine Abigail L. Tan, "Freedom's Frailty: Self-Realization in the Neo-Daoist Philosophy of Guo Xiang's Zhuangzhi" (SUNY Press, 2024)
52 mins; May 21, 2024
Daniel R. Schwartz, "Ancient Jewish Historians and the German Reich: Seven Studies" (de Gruyter, 2024)
73 hours 39 mins; May 19, 2024
Bryan K. Miller, "Xiongnu: The World's First Nomadic Empire" (Oxford UP, 2024)
63 hours 13 mins; May 01, 2024
Markus Vinzent, "Resetting the Origins of Christianity: A New Theory of Sources and Beginnings" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
43 mins; April 30, 2024
Plutarch as Philosopher and Political Thinker: A Conversation with Hugh Liebert
52 mins; April 18, 2024
Robert P. Goldman and Sally J. Sutherland Goldman, "The Rāmāyaį¹‡a of VālmÄ«ki: The Complete English Translation" (Princeton UP, 2022)
103 hours 16 mins; April 18, 2024
Jae Hee Han, "Prophets and Prophecy in the Late Antique Near East" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
73 hours 3 mins; April 13, 2024
D. Clint Burnett, "Christ's Enthronement at God's Right Hand and Its Greco-Roman Cultural Context" (de Gruyter, 2020)
23 mins; April 13, 2024
Peter Scharf, "Ramopakhyana - the Story of Rama in the Mahabharata" (Routledge, 2023)
35 mins; April 11, 2024
Hume, the Epicureans, and the Origins of Liberalism
60 hours 46 mins; April 10, 2024
Matthew Robertson, "Puruį¹£a: Personhood in Ancient India" (Oxford UP, 2024)
68 hours 54 mins; April 09, 2024
Anthony Kaldellis, "The New Roman Empire: A History of Byzantium" (Oxford UP, 2024)
35 mins; April 07, 2024
Michael LeFebvre, "Collections, Codes, and Torah: The Re-characterization of Israel's Written Law" (Bloomsbury, 2019)
17 mins; April 06, 2024
Patrick Olivelle, "Ashoka: Portrait of a Philosopher King" (Yale UP, 2024)
52 mins; April 04, 2024
Georgia Frank, "Unfinished Christians: Ritual Objects and Silent Subjects in Late Antiquity" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)
42 mins; April 03, 2024
Stefanos Geroulanos, "The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origins" (Liveright, 2024)
74 hours 58 mins; March 31, 2024
Citizenship Across Time and Space with David Jacobson
44 mins; March 28, 2024
Robin Waterfield, "Plato of Athens: A Life in Philosophy" (Oxford UP, 2023)
50 mins; March 28, 2024
David Ferry, Roger Reeves, and the Underworld
45 mins; March 21, 2024
Shakuntala Gawde, "Narrative Analysis of Bhagavata Purana: Selected Episodes from the Tenth Skandha" (Dev Publishers, 2023)
32 mins; March 21, 2024
Colin Elliott, "Pox Romana: The Plague That Shook the Roman World" (Princeton UP, 2024)
50 mins; March 19, 2024
Robin Baker, "Hollow Men, Strange Women: Riddles, Codes, and Otherness in the Book of Judges" (Brill, 2016)
25 mins; March 16, 2024
Myrto Garani et al., "The Oxford Handbook of Roman Philosophy" (Oxford UP, 2023)
52 mins; March 09, 2024
Patrick Olivelle, "Ashoka: Portrait of a Philosopher King" (Yale UP, 2024)
63 hours 56 mins; March 08, 2024
Jean-Manuel Roubineau, "The Dangerous Life and Ideas of Diogenes the Cynic" (Oxford UP, 2023)
30 mins; March 04, 2024
Marchella Ward, "Blindness and Spectatorship in Ancient and Modern Theatres: Towards New Ways of Looking and Looking Back" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
89 hours 1 min; March 01, 2024
Obert Bernard Mlambo, "Land Expropriation in Ancient Rome and Contemporary Zimbabwe: Veterans, Masculinity and War" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
60 hours 25 mins; February 27, 2024
T. Corey Brennan, "The Fasces: A History of Ancient Rome's Most Dangerous Political Symbol" (Oxford UP, 2022)
49 mins; February 21, 2024
Jonathon Lookadoo, "The Christology of Ignatius of Antioch" (Cascade Books, 2023)
27 mins; February 18, 2024
Anthony Kaldellis, "Romanland: Ethnicity and Empire in Byzantium" (Harvard UP, 2019)
49 mins; February 13, 2024
Neil Bernstein, "The Complete Works of Claudian" (Routledge, 2022)
29 mins; February 07, 2024
Clare K. Rothschild, "The Muratorian Fragment: Text, Translation, Commentary" (Mohr Siebeck, 2022)
58 mins; February 06, 2024
Angela Kim Harkins, "An Embodied Reading of the Shepherd of Hermas: The Book of Visions and Its Role in Moral Formation" (Equinox, 2023)
68 hours 37 mins; February 05, 2024
Beatrice Heuser, "War: A Genealogy of Western Ideas and Practices" (Oxford UP, 2022)
60 hours 31 mins; February 03, 2024
Emma Bridges, "Warriors' Wives: Ancient Greek Myth and Modern Experience" (Oxford UP, 2023)
50 mins; February 01, 2024
Colorblindness and the Classics: A Conversation with Andre Archie
51 mins; January 30, 2024
David J. Brick, "Widows Under Hindu Law" (Oxford UP, 2023)
52 mins; January 25, 2024
Adrian Goldsworthy, "Rome and Persia: The Seven Hundred Year Rivalry" (Basic Books, 2023)
64 hours 54 mins; January 25, 2024
Jan Westerhoff, "Candrakirti's Introduction to the Middle Way: A Guide" (Oxford UP, 2023)
54 mins; January 20, 2024
Kyle Gervais et al., "Lucan and Flavian Epic" (Brill, 2023)
56 mins; January 19, 2024
What Can We Learn From A Pottery Shard? Uncovering the Ancient Past Through Biblical Archeology with Professor Aren Maeir
33 mins; January 17, 2024
Jacob L. Wright, "Why the Bible Began: An Alternative History of Scripture and Its Origins" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
55 mins; January 13, 2024
Yair Furstenberg, "Purity and Identity in Ancient Judaism: From the Temple to the Mishnah" (Indiana UP, 2023)
38 mins; January 10, 2024
Jessica Romney, "Lyric Poetry and Social Identity in Archaic Greece" (U Michigan Press, 2020)
64 hours 16 mins; January 08, 2024
Seth Bernard, "Building Mid-Republican Rome: Labor, Architecture, and the Urban Economy"Ā (Oxford UP, 2018)
35 mins; January 07, 2024
Roman Politics, Familiar Yet Foreign: A Conversation with Jed Atkins
56 mins; January 02, 2024
Craig Keener, "Christobiography: Memory, History, and the Reliability of the Gospels" (Eerdmans, 2019)
41 mins; December 31, 2023
Matthieu Felt, "Meanings of Antiquity: Myth Interpretation in Premodern Japan" (Harvard UP, 2023)
44 mins; December 29, 2023
Joshua W. Jipp, "The Messianic Theology of the New Testament" (Eerdmans, 2020)
39 mins; December 27, 2023
Alice Collett, "Lives of Early Buddhist Nuns: Biographies as History" (Oxford UP, 2016)
64 hours 3 mins; December 26, 2023
Edward J. Watts, "The Eternal Decline and Fall of Rome: The History of a Dangerous Idea" (Oxford UP, 2021)
65 hours 35 mins; December 25, 2023
Yaron Eliav, "A Jew in the Roman Bathhouse: Cultural Interaction in the Ancient Mediterranean" (Princeton UP, 2023)
80 hours 20 mins; December 17, 2023
Katherine D. Von Schaik, "How to Be Healthy: An Ancient Guide to Wellness" (Galen) (Princeton UP, 2024)
34 mins; December 17, 2023
Mario Baghos, "From the Ancient Near East to Christian Byzantium: Kings, Symbols, and Cities" (Cambridge Scholars, 2021)
85 hours 56 mins; December 16, 2023
Isaac Soon, "A Disabled Apostle: Impairment and Disability in the Letters of Paul" (Oxford UP, 2023)
73 hours 21 mins; December 16, 2023
Kawi Culture: Exploring Indonesiaā€™s Classical Civilisation
33 mins; December 15, 2023
Peter Brown, "Journeys of the Mind: A Life in History" (Princeton UP, 2023)
64 hours 37 mins; December 14, 2023
Genealogies of Modernity Episode 2: What Is Modernity?
36 mins; December 06, 2023
David McMahan on Rethinking Meditation
70 hours 3 mins; December 04, 2023
J. Christopher Edwards, "Crucified: The Christian Invention of the Jewish Executioners of Jesus" (Fortress Press, 2023)
72 hours 30 mins; December 02, 2023
Empires of the Steppes: A History of the Nomadic Tribes Who Shaped Civilisation
55 mins; December 02, 2023
Vedic Texts, Indus Script, Aryan Migration
39 mins; November 30, 2023
Tony Spawforth, "What the Greeks Did for Us" (Yale UP, 2023)
57 mins; November 28, 2023
Greg Bailey, "The Brahmavaivarta Purana (Ganesa Khanda): Ancient Indian Tradition and Mythology" (Motilal Banarsidass, 2022)
33 mins; November 23, 2023
Dominik A. Haas, "GāyatrÄ«: Mantra and Mother of the Vedas" (Ɩsterreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2023)
52 mins; November 22, 2023
Raj Balkaran and McComas Taylor, "Visions and Revisions in Sanskrit Narrative: Studies in the Sanskrit Epics and Purāį¹‡as" (ANU Press, 2023)
59 mins; November 21, 2023
Meghan Henning, "Hell Hath No Fury: Gender, Disability, and the Invention of Damned Bodies in Early Christian Literature" (Yale UP, 2021)
61 hours 21 mins; November 17, 2023
Mira Balberg, "Fractured Tablets: Forgetfulness and Fallibility in Late Ancient Rabbinic Culture" (U California Press, 2023)
40 mins; November 16, 2023
Richard S. Ascough, "Early Christ Groups and Greco-Roman Associations: Organizational Models and Social Practices" (Cascade Books, 2022)
64 hours 5 mins; November 16, 2023
Steven B. Bowman, "Sepher Yosippon: A Tenth-Century History of Ancient Israel" (Wayne State UP, 2022)
92 hours 47 mins; November 15, 2023
Steven E. Lindquist, "The Literary Life of YājƱavalkya" (SUNY Press, 2023)
28 mins; November 09, 2023
Vanessa R. Sasson, "The Gathering: A Story of the First Buddhist Women" (Equinox, 2023)
51 mins; November 08, 2023
Megan Nutzman, "Contested Cures: Identity and Ritual Healing in Roman and Late Antique Palestine" (Edinburgh UP, 2022)
52 mins; November 05, 2023
Austin Surls, "Making Sense of the Divine Name in the Book of Exodus: From Etymology to Literary Onomastics" (Eisenbrauns, 2017)
25 mins; November 05, 2023
Carson Bay, "Biblical Heroes and Classical Culture in Christian Late Antiquity" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
62 hours 30 mins; November 04, 2023
David Alan Parnell, "Belisarius & Antonina: Love and War in the Age of Justinian" (Oxford UP, 2023)
57 mins; November 04, 2023
Yigal Bronner, "A Lasting Vision: Dandin's Mirror in the World of Asian Letters" (Oxford UP, 2023)
57 mins; November 04, 2023
Stuart McHardy, "The Nine Maidens: Priestesses of the Ancient World" (Luath Press, 2023)
38 mins; October 26, 2023
Sparta, Athens, Ukraine, Israel: A Conversation with Paul Rahe on Proxy Wars
56 mins; October 23, 2023
Matthew Thiessen, "A Jewish Paul: The Messiah's Herald to the Gentiles" (Baker Academic, 2023)
66 hours 6 mins; October 22, 2023
Chris Fraser, "Late Classical Chinese Thought" (Oxford UP, 2023)
67 hours 51 mins; October 20, 2023
Victoria Houseman, "American Classicist: The Life and Loves of Edith Hamilton" (Princeton UP, 2023)
30 mins; October 15, 2023
Jonathan Downs, "Discovery at Rosetta: Revealing Ancient Egypt" (American University in Cairo Press, 2020)
55 mins; October 15, 2023
Ben Witherington III, "Paul's Letter to the Romans: A Socio-Rhetorical Commentary" (Eerdmans, 2004)
32 mins; October 14, 2023
Seth L. Sanders, "From Adapa to Enoch: Scribal Culture and Religious Vision in Judea and Babylonia" (Mohr Siebeck, 2017)
82 hours 56 mins; October 06, 2023
Thomas E. Boomershine, "First-Century Gospel Storytellers and Audiences: The Gospels as Performance Literature" (Cascade Books, 2022)
138 hours 3 mins; October 04, 2023
Michael Kochenash, "Roman Self-Representation and the Lukan Kingdom of God" (Fortress Academic, 2020)
91 hours 2 mins; September 26, 2023
The Civic Bargain: A Conversation with Josiah Ober on Ancients and Moderns
63 hours 28 mins; September 26, 2023
Matthew R. Dasti, "Vatsyayana's Commentary on the Nyaya-Sutra: A Guide" (Oxford UP, 2023)
76 hours 45 mins; September 20, 2023
Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones, "Ancient Persia and the Book of Esther: Achaemenid Court Culture in the Hebrew Bible" (I. B. Tauris, 2023)
36 mins; September 14, 2023
Christopher T. Fleming et al., "Science and Society in the Sanskrit World" (Brill, 2023)
41 mins; September 14, 2023
Rebecca Kingston, "Plutarch's Prism: Classical Reception and Public Humanism in France and England, 1500ā€“1800" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
47 mins; September 14, 2023
A Better Way to Buy Books
32 mins; September 12, 2023
Jared Secord, "Christian Intellectuals and the Roman Empire: From Justin Martyr to Origen" (Penn State UP, 2020)
49 mins; September 09, 2023
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