New Books in Ancient History

648 Episodes

1. Asya Pereltsvaig and Martin Lewis, “The Indo-European Controversy: Facts and Fallacies in Historical Linguistics” (Cambridge UP, 2015)

   Published: 7/21/2015
2. Michael Nylan and Griet Vankeerberghen, “Chang’an 26 BCE: An Augustan Age in China” (U of Washington Press, 2015)

   Published: 5/5/2015
3. A. Mark Smith, “From Sight to Light: The Passage from Ancient to Modern Optics” (U of Chicago Press, 2015)

   Published: 3/21/2015
4. Agnieszka Helman-Wazny, “The Archaeology of Tibetan Books” (Brill, 2014)

   Published: 3/21/2015
5. Eugene N. Anderson, “Food and Environment in Early and Medieval China” (U of Pennsylvania Press, 2014)

   Published: 3/15/2015
6. Timothy Michael Law, “When God Spoke Greek: The Septuagint and the Making of the Christian Bible” (Oxford UP, 2013)

   Published: 12/10/2014
7. Mary-Jane Rubenstein, "Worlds Without End: The Many Lives of the Multiverse" (Columbia UP, 2014)

   Published: 9/29/2014
8. Daryn Lehoux, “What Did the Romans Know?: An Inquiry into Science and Worldmaking” (University of Chicago Press, 2012)

   Published: 8/16/2014
9. David Reimer, “Count Like an Egyptian: A Hands-on Introduction to Ancient Mathematics” (Princeton UP, 2014)

   Published: 6/9/2014
10. Sean Anthony, “Crucifixion and Death as Spectacle” (American Oriental Society, 2014)

    Published: 5/12/2014
11. Brent Nongbri, “Before Religion: A History of a Modern Concept” (Yale University Press, 2013)

    Published: 1/18/2014
12. Darrin M. McMahon, “Divine Fury: A History of Genius” (Basic Books, 2013)

    Published: 12/28/2013
13. Rowan K. Flad and Pochan Chen, “Ancient Central China” (Cambridge UP, 2013)

    Published: 10/19/2013
14. Reza Aslan, “Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth” (Random House, 2013)

    Published: 9/5/2013
15. Mark Byington, ed., “Early Korea: The Rediscovery of Kaya in History and Archaeology” (University of Hawaii Press, 2012)

    Published: 7/1/2013
16. Roslyn Weiss, “Philosophers in the Republic” (Cornell UP, 2012)

    Published: 3/1/2013
17. Bruce Rusk, “Critics and Commentators: The ‘Book of Poems’ as Classic and Literature” (Harvard UP, 2012)

    Published: 2/12/2013
18. Jill Gordon, “Plato’s Erotic World: From Cosmic Origins to Human Death” (Cambridge UP, 2012)

    Published: 10/15/2012
19. Kenneth Brashier, “Ancestral Memory in Early China” (Harvard University Asia Center, 2011)

    Published: 8/17/2012
20. Rowan K. Flad, "Salt Production and Social Hierarchy in Ancient China" (Cambridge UP, 2011)

    Published: 4/27/2012