BOOKS: Hot New Ancient History Releases!: January
If improving your reading is your goal for 2016, you’ve come to the right place! Here are our hot new ancient history releases for January!
New Releases: Ancient Books for the Holiday Season!
A few new releases for the historian on your shopping list!
The Death of Caesar: New Light on History’s Most Famous Assassination
Barry Strauss talks about his new book The Death of Caesar: The Story of History’s Most Famous Assassination.
The Tears of Re: Beekeeping in Ancient Egypt
In these four videos, Gene Kritsky, author of The Tears of Re, talks about beekeeping in Ancient Egypt
New Open Access Book on Vergil’s Political Commentary
Leendert Weeda examines Vergil’s political views by analyzing the whole of the poet’s work and introduces the notion of the functional model, which suggests that the poet does not primarily have a literary objective, but a functional one.
Fall of Roman Empire can be explained by biology, researcher says
Forget the Vandals – the fall of the Roman Empire can be explained by biology, according to a new book.
The Theban Epics reveal the bloody side to the Ancient Greeks
An Oxford academic has pieced together fragments of ancient epic poetry, revealing a new side to Ancient Greek culture in scenes of startling brutality, blasphemy, and even cannibalism.
Five New Books about Ancient History worth a look
Romans, Greeks and Amazons – 5 new books for fans of Ancient History!
What is your Amazon warrior name?
Take this short quiz to be matched up with your ancient Amazon warrior name and to learn its true meaning. This quiz is based on new research by Adrienne Mayor, published in the book The Amazons: Lives and Legends of Warrior Women across the Ancient World.
Helen of Troy: Beauty, Myth, Devastation
She is in her very essence a creature of myth – a concept, not a person. It is that concept, and its meaning for ancient Greek authors, that is my subject.