New Books in Ancient History
A podcast by New Books Network
629 Episodio
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James Turner, “Philology: The Forgotten Origins of the Modern Humanities” (Princeton University Press, 2014)
Pubblicato: 10/08/2015 -
Asya Pereltsvaig and Martin Lewis, “The Indo-European Controversy: Facts and Fallacies in Historical Linguistics” (Cambridge UP, 2015)
Pubblicato: 21/07/2015 -
Michael Nylan and Griet Vankeerberghen, “Chang’an 26 BCE: An Augustan Age in China” (U of Washington Press, 2015)
Pubblicato: 05/05/2015 -
A. Mark Smith, “From Sight to Light: The Passage from Ancient to Modern Optics” (U of Chicago Press, 2015)
Pubblicato: 21/03/2015 -
Agnieszka Helman-Wazny, “The Archaeology of Tibetan Books” (Brill, 2014)
Pubblicato: 21/03/2015 -
Eugene N. Anderson, “Food and Environment in Early and Medieval China” (U of Pennsylvania Press, 2014)
Pubblicato: 15/03/2015 -
Timothy Michael Law, “When God Spoke Greek: The Septuagint and the Making of the Christian Bible” (Oxford UP, 2013)
Pubblicato: 10/12/2014 -
Mary-Jane Rubenstein, "Worlds Without End: The Many Lives of the Multiverse" (Columbia UP, 2014)
Pubblicato: 29/09/2014 -
Daryn Lehoux, “What Did the Romans Know?: An Inquiry into Science and Worldmaking” (University of Chicago Press, 2012)
Pubblicato: 16/08/2014 -
David Reimer, “Count Like an Egyptian: A Hands-on Introduction to Ancient Mathematics” (Princeton UP, 2014)
Pubblicato: 09/06/2014 -
Sean Anthony, “Crucifixion and Death as Spectacle” (American Oriental Society, 2014)
Pubblicato: 12/05/2014 -
Brent Nongbri, “Before Religion: A History of a Modern Concept” (Yale University Press, 2013)
Pubblicato: 18/01/2014 -
Darrin M. McMahon, “Divine Fury: A History of Genius” (Basic Books, 2013)
Pubblicato: 28/12/2013 -
Rowan K. Flad and Pochan Chen, “Ancient Central China” (Cambridge UP, 2013)
Pubblicato: 19/10/2013 -
Reza Aslan, “Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth” (Random House, 2013)
Pubblicato: 05/09/2013 -
Mark Byington, ed., “Early Korea: The Rediscovery of Kaya in History and Archaeology” (University of Hawaii Press, 2012)
Pubblicato: 01/07/2013 -
Roslyn Weiss, “Philosophers in the Republic” (Cornell UP, 2012)
Pubblicato: 01/03/2013 -
Bruce Rusk, “Critics and Commentators: The ‘Book of Poems’ as Classic and Literature” (Harvard UP, 2012)
Pubblicato: 12/02/2013 -
Jill Gordon, “Plato’s Erotic World: From Cosmic Origins to Human Death” (Cambridge UP, 2012)
Pubblicato: 15/10/2012 -
Kenneth Brashier, “Ancestral Memory in Early China” (Harvard University Asia Center, 2011)
Pubblicato: 17/08/2012
Interview with scholars of the Ancient World about their new books