ancient history

Book Reviews

David Aberbach: Imperialism and Biblical Prophecy, 750-500 BCE
- the Assyrian came down like a wolf on the fold
Susan E. Alcock, et al.: Empires*
Perspectives from Archaeology and History
Richard A. Billows: Antigonos the One-Eyed
And the Creation of the Hellenistic State
Marc Zvi Brettler: The Creation of History in Ancient Israel*
- the biblical authors and their presentations of the past
Gillian Clark: Women in Late Antiquity*
Pagan and Christian Lifestyles
Graham Connah: African Civilizations*
An Archaeological Perspective
John Dominic Crossan: The Historical Jesus*
The Life of a Mediterranean Jewish Peasant
John Curtis, Nigel Tallis: Forgotten Empire
The World of Ancient Persia
Sergio Donadoni: The Egyptians
- the social history of ancient Egypt
William Wayne Farris: Sacred Texts and Buried Treasures
Issues in the Historical Archaeology of Ancient Japan
Irving Finkel, Jonathan Taylor: Cuneiform
- writing and literacy in ancient Mesopotamia
M.I. Finley: Ancient History*
Evidence and Models
Garth Fowden: Before and After Muhammad
The First Millennium Refocused
Garth Fowden: Empire to Commonwealth
Consequences of Monotheism in Late Antiquity
Joan M. Frayn: Sheep-Rearing and the Wool Trade
in Italy during the Roman Period
Patrick Galliou, Michael Jones: The Bretons
- the history and archaeology of Brittany down to 1491
Andrea Giardina: The Romans
- a social history
Peter Green: The Greco-Persian Wars*
- an accessible history
Debra Hamel: Trying Neaira*
The True Story of a Courtesan's Scandalous Life in Ancient Greece
Francis Joannès: The Age of Empires*
Mesopotamia in the First Millennium BC
Gwendolyn Leick: Mesopotamia: The Invention of the City*
- ten cities over five millennia
Mario Liverani: Israel's History and the History of Israel**
- ancient histories, normal and invented
Michael Loewe, Edward L. Shaughnessy: The Cambridge History of Ancient China*
From the Origins of Civilization to 221 B.C.
J.G. Macqueen: The Hittites
And their contemporaries in Asia Minor
Jean Manco: The Origins of the Anglo-Saxons
Decoding the Ancestry of the English
Jean Manco: Ancestral Journeys
The Peopling of Europe from the First Venturers to the Vikings
R.A. Markus: The End of Ancient Christianity
- changes in Western Christianity in the fourth through sixth centuries
Hans J. Nissen: The Early History of the Ancient Near East
9000 - 2000 B.C.
Robert L. O'Connell: The Ghosts of Cannae
Hannibal and the Darkest Hour of the Roman Republic
Roland Oliver, Brian M. Fagan: Africa in the Iron Age
c. 500 B.C. to A.D. 1400
Donald B. Redford: Egypt, Canaan and Israel in Ancient Times
- from prehistory to the destruction of Jerusalem in 586 BC
David Reich: Who We Are and How We Got Here
Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past
Andrew Robinson: The Indus
- a mysterious "lost" civilisation
R.K. Sinclair: Democracy and Participation in Athens
- the literary and epigraphical evidence
Nigel Spivey: The Ancient Olympics
- history, archaeology, mythology, politics, ...
William H. Stiebing Jr: Out of the Desert?
Archaeology and the Exodus/Conquest Narratives
Robert B. Strassler: The Landmark Herodotus: The Histories
- stupendously annotated and enhanced
Olga Tellegen-Couperus: A Short History of Roman Law
- suitable for those with no background in Roman history
Romila Thapar: Early India
From the Origins to AD 1300
Thomas L. Thompson: The Bible in History
How Writers Create a Past
Jean-Pierre Vernant: The Greeks
- the social history of ancient Greece
B.H. Warmington: Nero
Reality and Legend
Herwig Wolfram: The Roman Empire and its Germanic Peoples
- Visigoths, Vandals, Ostrogoths, Burgundians, ...