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Ancient History
Interviews with scholars of ancient history about their new books.
October 24, 2024
The Prosperity of the Wicked
Does Job convincingly argue against a fixed system of just retribution by proclaiming the prosperity of the wicked, an argument that runs contrary to …
October 19, 2024
The Bible
A “wonderful…highly comprehensive” (John Barton, author of A History of the Bible) global history of the world’s best-known and most influential book …
October 17, 2024
Hoof Beats
Which society was the first to domesticate the horse? It’s a difficult question. The archaeological record is spotty, with only very recent advancemen…
October 15, 2024
Babylonian Jews and Sasanian Imperialism in Late Antiquity
From the image offered by the Babylonian Talmud, Jewish elites were deeply embedded within the Sasanian Empire (224-651 CE). The Talmud is replete wit…
October 13, 2024
Women Writing Antiquity
Women Writing Antiquity: Gender and Learning in Early Modern France (Oxford UP, 2024) recounts women authors' struggle to define the female intellectu…
October 9, 2024
Of Ancestors and Ghosts
In Buddhist cosmology, pretas make up one of several categories of rebirth. They are best known as "hungry ghosts," pitiful beings with miniscule mout…
October 8, 2024
The Ideology of Democratic Athens
We are Clavis Aurea: a dynamic team constantly looking for ways to make the academic publishing industry grow and to promote groundbreaking academic p…
September 30, 2024
Desert Ascetics of Egypt
Egypt is revered as the home of the famous Desert Ascetics, who first embraced a monastic life and established homosocial communities on the borders o…
September 30, 2024
The Dong World and Imperial China's Southwest Silk Road
From the eighth to thirteenth centuries along China’s rugged southern periphery, trade in tribute articles and an interregional horse market thrived. …
September 29, 2024
Hoof Beats
From the Rockies to the Himalayas, the bond between horses and humans has spanned across time and civilizations. In this archaeological journey, Willi…
September 24, 2024
Plato the Teacher
In Plato the Teacher: The Crisis of the Republic (Lexington, 2012), William Altman shines a light on the pedagogical technique of the playful Plato, e…
September 24, 2024
Buddhism Between Religion and Philosophy
Nāgārjuna (c. 150-250), founder of the Madhyamaka or Middle Way school of Buddhist philosophy and the most influential of all Buddhist thinkers aside …
September 16, 2024
Julian
Today I talked to Philip Freeman about his new book Julian: Rome’s Last Pagan Emperor (Yale UP, 2023). Flavius Claudius Julianus, or Julian the Apost…
September 15, 2024
Wicked Problems for Archaeologists
'Wicked Problems' are those problems facing the planet and its inhabitants, present and future, which are hard (if not impossible) to resolve and for …
September 14, 2024
How to Fit All of Ancient Greece in an Elevator
Two strangers meet in a trapped elevator. One is an archaeologist, the other isn’t. A simple question, ‘What do you do?’, becomes the springboard for …
September 9, 2024
Trafficking with Demons
Martha Rampton's book Trafficking with Demons: Magic, Ritual, and Gender from Late Antiquity to 1000 (Cornell University Press, 2021) explores how mag…
September 7, 2024
Time and Its Adversaries in the Seleucid Empire
In the aftermath of Alexander the Great’s conquests, the Seleucid kings ruled a vast territory stretching from Central Asia to Anatolia, Armenia to th…
September 6, 2024
Sensing Salvation in the Gospel of John
Recent scholarship focused on the role of embodiment within cognition and communication reminds us that part of how we “know” is through our physical …
September 5, 2024
Raiders, Rulers, and Traders
After reading David Chaffetz’s newest book, you’d think that the horse–not oil–has been humanity’s most important strategic commodity. As David writes…
September 4, 2024
The Trojan Horse and Other Stories
What makes us human? What, if anything, sets us apart from all other creatures? Ever since Charles Darwin's theory of evolution, the answer to these q…