Ancient Mediterranean World

Discover exciting new books in ancient history and classics, broadly defined.

Updated July 12, 2025
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Enuma Elish : The Babylonian Epic of Creation
Haubold, Johannes
Ebook
This open access book is the first in a groundbreaking series making Babylonian literature accessible. It presents Enuma Elish in transcription and translation, with an introduction for non-specialist readers and essays from leading scholars in the field.Acting as a companion to the poem, the...
Hannibal and Scipio: Parallel Lives
Hornblower
Ebook
The Second Punic War between Carthage and Rome began in 218 BCE and ended in 202 with the dramatic defeat at the Battle of Zama of Carthage's commander Hannibal by his adversary, the Roman Scipio. The two men were born about a decade apart but died in the same year, 183, following brilliant but...
Slaves of God: Augustine and Other Romans on Religion and Politics
Toni Alimi
Ebook
A provocative look at the central role of slavery in Augustine's religious, ethical, and political thought Augustine believed that slavery is permissible, but to understand why, we must situate him in his late antique Roman intellectual context. Slaves of God provides a...
The Arsacids of Rome : Misunderstanding in Roman-Parthian Relations
Nabel, Jake.
Ebook
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. At the beginning of the common era, the...
Greek Culture in Hellenistic Egypt : Persistence and Evolutions
Del Corso, Lucio.
Ebook
This book investigates some aspects of the cultural consequences of the settlement of Greeks in Egypt during the Hellenistic period, through a discussion of papyrological material, archaeological evidence, and literary sources. It is divided into three sections. The first, Space and Images,...
Taxes and Authority in the Late Antique Countryside : The Reach of the State and the Pagarchs of Byzantine Egypt (284-642 CE)
Stern, Matthias.
Ebook
How did the late Roman Empire operate in rural areas, where most of its subjects lived? The papyri from Egypt provide glimpses of state activity at the local level, how the countryside responded to it, and thus how "empire" looked on the ground. Since a major motivator for state activity at the...
The Ancient Shore
Kosmin, Paul J.
Ebook
An esteemed historian explores the natural and social dynamics of the ancient coastline, demonstrating for the first time its integral place in the world of Mediterranean antiquity. As we learn from The Odyssey and the Argonauts, Greek dramas frequently played out on a...
Stolen Fragments : Black Markets, Bad Faith, and the Illicit Trade in Ancient Artefacts
Mazza, Roberta.
Ebook
In 2012, Steve Green, billionaire and president of the Hobby Lobby chain of craft stores, announced a recent purchase of a Biblical artefact--a fragment of papyrus, just discovered, carrying lines from Paul's letter to the Romans, and dated to the second century CE. Noted scholar Roberta Mazza...
The Tomb and Beyond : Burial Customs of Egyptian Officials
Kanawati, Naguib.
Ebook
Provides a much needed summary overview of the key elements of Egyptian tomb form, use and decoration over time. The tombs, with their scenes, inscriptions, objects and human remains, represent our richest source of information for the understanding of Egyptian beliefs and...

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