New Books in Ancient History
A podcast by New Books Network
629 Episodio
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Frank L. Holt, “The Treasures of Alexander the Great: How One Man’s Wealth Shaped the World” (Oxford UP, 2016)
Pubblicato: 11/07/2018 -
Robert D. Miller II, “The Dragon, the Mountain, and the Nations: An Old Testament Myth, Its Origins, and Its Afterlives” (Eisenbrauns, 2018)
Pubblicato: 21/06/2018 -
Donni Wang, “Before the Market: The Political Economy of Olympianism” (Common Ground, 2018)
Pubblicato: 23/05/2018 -
Erik Jensen, “Barbarians in the Greek and Roman World” (Hackett Publishing, 2018)
Pubblicato: 15/05/2018 -
Barry W. Holtz, “Rabbi Akiva: Sage of the Talmud” (Yale UP, 2017)
Pubblicato: 26/09/2017 -
Hanna Tervanotko, “Denying Her Voice: The Figure of Miriam in Ancient Jewish Literature” (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2016)
Pubblicato: 29/08/2017 -
Sarah Bond, “Trade and Taboo: Disreputable Professions in the Roman Mediterranean” (U of Michigan Press, 2016)
Pubblicato: 12/08/2017 -
Joyce Salisbury, “Rome’s Christian Empress: Galla Placidia Rules at the Twilight of the Empire” (Johns Hopkins UP, 2015)
Pubblicato: 06/08/2017 -
Pekka Pitkanen, “A Commentary on Numbers: Narrative, Ritual and Colonialism” (Routledge, 2017)
Pubblicato: 26/07/2017 -
Jennifer T. Roberts, “The Plague of War: Athens, Sparta, and the Struggle for Ancient Greece” (Oxford UP, 2017)
Pubblicato: 16/07/2017 -
Patrick N. Hunt, “Hannibal” (Simon and Schuster, 2017)
Pubblicato: 13/07/2017 -
Rajan Gurukkal, “Rethinking Classical Indo-Roman Trade: Political Economy of Eastern Mediterranean Exchange Relations” (Oxford UP, 2016)
Pubblicato: 08/06/2017 -
Augustine’s “Confessions,” a new translation by Sarah Ruden (Modern Library, 2017)
Pubblicato: 01/06/2017 -
Michael Bryant,” A World History of War Crimes: From Antiquity to the Present,” (Bloomsbury, 2016)
Pubblicato: 18/05/2017 -
David Bryan and David Pao, eds, “Ascent into Heaven in Luke – Acts” (Fortress Press, 2016)
Pubblicato: 02/05/2017 -
Rebe Taylor, “Into the Heart of Tasmania: A Search For Human Antiquity” (Melbourne UP, 2017)
Pubblicato: 30/04/2017 -
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)
Pubblicato: 29/04/2017 -
Yuval Harari, “Jewish Magic before the Rise of Kabbalah” (Wayne State UP, 2017)
Pubblicato: 27/03/2017 -
Michael E. Stewart, “The Soldier’s Life: Martial Virtues and Manly Romanitas In the Early Byzantine Empire” (Kismet Press, 2016)
Pubblicato: 22/03/2017 -
Jordan D. Rosenblum, “The Jewish Dietary Laws in the Ancient World” (Cambridge UP, 2016)
Pubblicato: 09/03/2017
Interview with scholars of the Ancient World about their new books