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New Books in Ancient History
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Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad, "In Dialogue with Classical Indian Traditions: Encounter, Transformation and Interpretation" (Routledge, 2019)
53 mins; April 23, 2019
Richard Hingley, "Londinium: A Biography" (Routledge, 2018)
49 mins; April 18, 2019
Paul K.-K. Cho, "Myth, History, and Metaphor in the Hebrew Bible" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
35 mins; April 15, 2019
Craig Benjamin, "Empires of Ancient Eurasia: The First Silk Roads Era, 100 BCE-250 CE" (Cambridge UP, 2018)
57 mins; April 12, 2019
Kurt Raaflaub, "The Landmark Julius Caesar: The Complete Works" (Pantheon, 2017)
43 mins; March 26, 2019
Paul J. Kosmin, "Time and Its Adversaries in the Seleucid Empire" (Harvard UP, 2018)
74 hours 0 mins; March 21, 2019
Nathan McGovern, "The Snake and The Mongoose: The Emergence of Identity in Early Indian Religion" (Oxford UP, 2018)
54 mins; March 19, 2019
Seth Bernard, "Building Mid-Republican Rome: Labor, Architecture, and the Urban Economy" (Oxford UP, 2018)
35 mins; March 14, 2019
R. B. Jamieson, "Jesus’ Death and Heavenly Offering in Hebrews" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
49 mins; February 14, 2019
Adrienne Mayor, "Gods and Robots: Myths, Machines, and Ancient Dreams of Technology" (Princeton UP, 2018)
41 mins; February 06, 2019
Elizabeth Macaulay-Lewis. "Classical New York: Discovering Greece and Rome in Gotham" (Empire States Editions, 2018)
38 mins; January 30, 2019
Kathryn Lomas, "The Rise of Rome: From the Iron Age to the Punic Wars" (Harvard UP, 2018)
108 hours 44 mins; January 15, 2019
Nicholas J. Moore, "Repetition in Hebrews: Plurality and Singularity in the Letter to the Hebrews, Its Ancient Context, and the Early Church" (Mohr Siebeck, 2015)
25 mins; January 09, 2019
Angelos Chaniotis, "Age of Conquests: The Greek World from Alexander to Hadrian" (Harvard UP, 2018)
71 hours 35 mins; January 08, 2019
Matthew Gabriele, "Apocalypse and Reform from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages" (Routledge, 2018)
41 mins; December 21, 2018
Harry O. Maier, "New Testament Christianity in the Roman World" (Oxford UP, 2018)
37 mins; December 20, 2018
Edward J. Watts, “Mortal Republic: How Rome Fell into Tyranny” (Basic Books, 2018)
64 hours 13 mins; November 05, 2018
Joshua J. F. Coutts, “The Divine Name in the Gospel of John” (Mohr Siebeck, 2017)
44 mins; October 09, 2018
Robert D. Miller II, “Covenant and Grace in the Old Testament: Assyrian Propaganda and Israelite Faith” (Gorgias Press, 2012)
26 mins; September 26, 2018
Luis Cortest, “Philo’s Heirs: Moses Maimonides and Thomas Aquinas” (Academic Studies Press, 2017)
53 mins; September 18, 2018
Peter Heather, “Rome Resurgent: War and Empire in the Age of Justinian” (Oxford UP, 2018)
58 mins; September 10, 2018
Richard A. Billows, “Before and After Alexander: The Legend and Legacy of Alexander the Great” (The Overlook Press, 2018)
55 mins; August 23, 2018
Duane W. Roller, “Cleopatra’s Daughter: And Other Royal Women of the Augustan Era” (Oxford UP, 2018)
41 mins; August 10, 2018
Frank L. Holt, “The Treasures of Alexander the Great: How One Man’s Wealth Shaped the World” (Oxford UP, 2016)
46 mins; July 11, 2018
Robert D. Miller II, “The Dragon, the Mountain, and the Nations: An Old Testament Myth, Its Origins, and Its Afterlives” (Eisenbrauns, 2018)
29 mins; June 21, 2018
Donni Wang, “Before the Market: The Political Economy of Olympianism” (Common Ground, 2018)
37 mins; May 23, 2018
Erik Jensen, “Barbarians in the Greek and Roman World” (Hackett Publishing, 2018)
50 mins; May 15, 2018
Barry W. Holtz, “Rabbi Akiva: Sage of the Talmud” (Yale UP, 2017)
53 mins; September 26, 2017
Hanna Tervanotko, “Denying Her Voice: The Figure of Miriam in Ancient Jewish Literature” (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2016)
40 mins; August 29, 2017
Sarah Bond, “Trade and Taboo: Disreputable Professions in the Roman Mediterranean” (U of Michigan Press, 2016)
47 mins; August 12, 2017
Joyce Salisbury, “Rome’s Christian Empress: Galla Placidia Rules at the Twilight of the Empire” (Johns Hopkins UP, 2015)
42 mins; August 06, 2017
Pekka Pitkanen, “A Commentary on Numbers: Narrative, Ritual and Colonialism” (Routledge, 2017)
62 hours 17 mins; July 26, 2017
Jennifer T. Roberts, “The Plague of War: Athens, Sparta, and the Struggle for Ancient Greece” (Oxford UP, 2017)
56 mins; July 16, 2017
Patrick N. Hunt, “Hannibal” (Simon and Schuster, 2017)
99 hours 32 mins; July 13, 2017
Rajan Gurukkal, “Rethinking Classical Indo-Roman Trade: Political Economy of Eastern Mediterranean Exchange Relations” (Oxford UP, 2016)
37 mins; June 08, 2017
Augustine’s “Confessions,” a new translation by Sarah Ruden (Modern Library, 2017)
63 hours 25 mins; June 01, 2017
Michael Bryant,” A World History of War Crimes: From Antiquity to the Present,” (Bloomsbury, 2016)
74 hours 1 min; May 18, 2017
David Bryan and David Pao, eds, “Ascent into Heaven in Luke – Acts” (Fortress Press, 2016)
46 mins; May 02, 2017
Rebe Taylor, “Into the Heart of Tasmania: A Search For Human Antiquity” (Melbourne UP, 2017)
16 mins; April 29, 2017
J. C. McKeown, “A Cabinet of Ancient Medical Curiosities: Strange Tales and Surprising Facts from the Healing Arts of Greece and Rome” (Oxford UP, 2017)
47 mins; April 29, 2017
Yuval Harari, “Jewish Magic before the Rise of Kabbalah” (Wayne State UP, 2017)
35 mins; March 27, 2017
Michael E. Stewart, “The Soldier’s Life: Martial Virtues and Manly Romanitas In the Early Byzantine Empire” (Kismet Press, 2016)
47 mins; March 22, 2017
Jordan D. Rosenblum, “The Jewish Dietary Laws in the Ancient World” (Cambridge UP, 2016)
47 mins; March 09, 2017
David Rohl, “Exodus: Myth or History? (Thinking Man Media, 2015)
42 mins; February 27, 2017
Jack M. Sasson, “From the Mari Archives: An Anthology of Old Babylonian Letters” (Eisenbrauns, 2015)
71 hours 37 mins; December 29, 2016
Eva Mroczek, “The Literary Imagination in Jewish Antiquity” (Oxford UP, 2016)
51 mins; December 23, 2016
Dov Weiss, “Pious Irreverence: Confronting God in Rabbinic Judaism” (U. Pennsylvania Press, 2016)
59 mins; December 12, 2016
Donald Berry, “Glory in Romans and the Unified Purpose of God in Redemptive History” (Pickwick Publications, 2016)
57 mins; November 13, 2016
Neil Kent, “Crimea: A History” (Hurst/Oxford UP, 2016)
65 hours 45 mins; September 02, 2016
Reza Zarghamee, “Discovering Cyrus: The Persian Conqueror Astride the Ancient World” (Mage Pub, 2013)
59 mins; July 05, 2016
Joseph Lam, “Patterns of Sin in the Hebrew Bible: Metaphor, Culture, and the Making of a Religious Concept” (Oxford UP, 2016)
64 hours 13 mins; June 26, 2016
Stephen L. Field, “The Duke of Zhou Changes: A Study and Annotated Translation of the Zhouyi” (Harrassowitz Verlag, 2015)
65 hours 35 mins; May 20, 2016
David J. Meltzer, “The Great Paleolithic War: How Science Forged an Understanding of Americas Ice Age Past” (U Chicago Press, 2015)
62 hours 25 mins; April 26, 2016
David A. Lambert, “How Repentance Became Biblical: Judaism, Christianity, and the Interpretation of Scripture” (Oxford UP, 2016)
31 mins; March 27, 2016
Jason Mokhtarian, “Rabbis, Sorcerers, Kings, and Priests: The Culture of the Talmud in Ancient Iran” (U of California Press, 2015)
32 mins; February 22, 2016
Aviya Kushner, “The Grammar of God: A Journey into the Words and Worlds of the Bible” (Spiegel and Grau, 2015)
58 mins; February 16, 2016
Erica Fox Brindley, “Ancient China and the Yue: Perceptions and Identities on the Southern Frontier, c.400 BCE-50 CE” (Cambridge UP, 2015)
62 hours 32 mins; February 03, 2016
Brian P. Copenhaver, “Magic in Western Culture: From Antiquity to the Enlightenment” (Cambridge UP, 2015 )
71 hours 34 mins; December 15, 2015
Carlos Fraenkel, “Teaching Plato in Palestine: Philosophy in a Divided World” (Princeton UP, 2015)
67 hours 41 mins; December 01, 2015
Eric H. Cline, “1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed” (Princeton University Press, 2014)
87 hours 32 mins; October 07, 2015
Michael L. Satlow, “How the Bible Became Holy” (Yale UP, 2014)
31 mins; September 17, 2015
Bruce A. Bradley, et al., “Clovis Technology” (International Monographs in Prehistory, 2010)
113 hours 49 mins; September 12, 2015
Douglas B. Bamforth et al., “The Allen Site: A Paleoindian Camp in Southwestern Nebraska” (U of New Mexico Press, 2015)
81 hours 31 mins; August 25, 2015
James Turner, “Philology: The Forgotten Origins of the Modern Humanities” (Princeton University Press, 2014)
64 hours 32 mins; August 10, 2015
Asya Pereltsvaig and Martin Lewis, “The Indo-European Controversy: Facts and Fallacies in Historical Linguistics” (Cambridge UP, 2015)
61 hours 44 mins; July 21, 2015
Michael Nylan and Griet Vankeerberghen, “Chang’an 26 BCE: An Augustan Age in China” (U of Washington Press, 2015)
70 hours 24 mins; May 05, 2015
A. Mark Smith, “From Sight to Light: The Passage from Ancient to Modern Optics” (U of Chicago Press, 2015)
62 hours 25 mins; March 21, 2015
Agnieszka Helman-Wazny, “The Archaeology of Tibetan Books” (Brill, 2014)
60 hours 27 mins; March 21, 2015
Eugene N. Anderson, “Food and Environment in Early and Medieval China” (U of Pennsylvania Press, 2014)
60 hours 9 mins; March 15, 2015
Timothy Michael Law, “When God Spoke Greek: The Septuagint and the Making of the Christian Bible” (Oxford UP, 2013)
58 mins; December 10, 2014
Mary-Jane Rubenstein, "Worlds Without End: The Many Lives of the Multiverse" (Columbia UP, 2014)
61 hours 36 mins; September 29, 2014
Daryn Lehoux, “What Did the Romans Know?: An Inquiry into Science and Worldmaking” (University of Chicago Press, 2012)
69 hours 7 mins; August 16, 2014
David Reimer, “Count Like an Egyptian: A Hands-on Introduction to Ancient Mathematics” (Princeton UP, 2014)
76 hours 6 mins; June 09, 2014
Sean Anthony, “Crucifixion and Death as Spectacle” (American Oriental Society, 2014)
62 hours 1 min; May 12, 2014
Brent Nongbri, “Before Religion: A History of a Modern Concept” (Yale University Press, 2013)
74 hours 24 mins; January 18, 2014
Darrin M. McMahon, “Divine Fury: A History of Genius” (Basic Books, 2013)
71 hours 15 mins; December 27, 2013
Rowan K. Flad and Pochan Chen, “Ancient Central China” (Cambridge UP, 2013)
73 hours 33 mins; October 19, 2013
Reza Aslan, “Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth” (Random House, 2013)
43 mins; September 05, 2013
Mark Byington, ed., “Early Korea: The Rediscovery of Kaya in History and Archaeology” (University of Hawaii Press, 2012)
73 hours 3 mins; July 01, 2013
Roslyn Weiss, “Philosophers in the Republic” (Cornell UP, 2012)
67 hours 53 mins; March 01, 2013
Bruce Rusk, “Critics and Commentators: The ‘Book of Poems’ as Classic and Literature” (Harvard UP, 2012)
78 hours 24 mins; February 12, 2013
Jill Gordon, “Plato’s Erotic World: From Cosmic Origins to Human Death” (Cambridge UP, 2012)
63 hours 39 mins; October 15, 2012
Kenneth Brashier, “Ancestral Memory in Early China” (Harvard University Asia Center, 2011)
73 hours 57 mins; August 17, 2012
Rowan K. Flad, "Salt Production and Social Hierarchy in Ancient China" (Cambridge UP, 2011)
71 hours 58 mins; April 27, 2012
Stacy Schiff, “Cleopatra: A Life” (Back Bay Books, 2011)
39 mins; December 07, 2011
David Potter, “The Victor’s Crown: A History of Ancient Sport from Homer to Byzantium” (Oxford UP, 2011)
59 mins; November 01, 2011
Gregory Nagy on Homer’s “Iliad”
10 mins; October 25, 2011
Mark Bradley, “Classics and Imperialism in the British Empire” (Oxford UP, 2010)
66 hours 40 mins; August 15, 2011
Christopher Krebs, “A Most Dangerous Book: Tacitus’s Germania from the Roman Empire to the Third Reich” (Norton, 2011)
80 hours 14 mins; June 22, 2011
Amanda Podany, “Brotherhood of Kings: How International Relations Shaped the Ancient Near East” (Oxford UP, 2010)
63 hours 18 mins; August 19, 2010
Adrian Goldsworthy, “How Rome Fell: Death of a Superpower” (Yale UP, 2009)
67 hours 54 mins; May 01, 2009
Joyce Tyldesley, “Cleopatra: Last Queen of Egypt” (Basic Books, 2008)
65 hours 44 mins; September 05, 2008
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