ancient history – The Staircase Window

Remembering Women: Lessons from the Ancient World

A Beginner’s Guide to Greek Mythology: An Introduction to the Gods and Goddesses, Mythical Creatures, and Muses of Ancient Greece

Strangers and Intimates: The Rise and Fall of Private Life

Ancient Mirrors of Womanhood: A Treasury of Goddess and Heroine Lore from Around the World

How Women Became Poets: A Gender History of Greek Literature

Penelope’s Bones: A New History of Homer’s World through the Women Written Out of It

Mythic Plants: Potions and Poisons from the Gardens of the Gods

When We Ruled: The Rise and Fall of Twelve African Queens and Warriors

Apocalypse: How Catastrophe Transformed Our World and Can Forge New Futures

Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global

All Roads Lead to Rome: Why We Think about the Roman Empire Daily

How to Be Queer: An Ancient Guide to Sexuality

The Library of Ancient Wisdom: Mesopotamia and the Making of the Modern World

Greek Tragedy

Immaculate Forms: A History of the Female Body in Four Parts

Fulvia: The Woman Who Broke All the Rules in Ancient Rome

Embers of the Hands: Hidden Histories of the Viking Age

Warriors’ Wives: Ancient Greek Myth and Modern Experience

The Power of Art: A Human History of Art: From Babylon to New York City

The Woman Who Would Be King: Hatshepsut’s Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt

In the Shadow of Quetzalcoatl: Zelia Nuttall and the Search for Mexico’s Ancient Civilizations

Women in the World of the Earliest Christians: Illuminating Ancient Ways of Life

Of Gods and Men: 100 Stories from Ancient Greece and Rome

Out of One, Many: Ancient Greek Ways of Thought and Culture

The Shadow of Vesuvius: A Life of Pliny

Unfortunately, She was a Nymphomaniac: A New History of Rome’s Imperial Women

Ancestors: A Prehistory of Britain in Seven Burials

Buried: An alternative history of the first millennium in Britain

The Ancient Art of Thinking for Yourself: The Power of Rhetoric in Polarized Times

Et Cetera: An Illustrated Guide to Latin Phrases

Women Out of Bounds

Sex and Sexuality in Ancient Rome

The Powerful Women of Outremer: Forgotten Heroines of the Crusader States

Women and Warfare in the Ancient World: Virgins, Viragos and Amazons

Otherwise Than the Binary: New Feminist Readings in Ancient Philosophy and Culture

The Missing Thread: A New History of the Ancient World Through the Women Who Shaped It

My Roman History

Bad Girls of Ancient Greece

Laughter in Ancient Rome

Encyclopedia of Women in the Ancient World

In Blood and Ashes: Curse Tablets and Binding Spells in Ancient Greece

Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth

A Song of War: A Novel of Troy

Pockets: An Intimate History of How We Keep Things Close

A Rome of One’s Own: The Forgotten Women of the Roman Empire

Policing Pregnant Bodies: From Ancient Greece to Post-Roe America

Rebel Folklore: Empowering Tales of Spirits, Witches, and Other Misfits from Anansi to Baba Yaga

Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World

A History of the Roman Empire in 21 Women

The Iliad Homer

Women’s Lives, Women’s Voices: Roman Material Culture and Female Agency in the Bay of Naples

How Do We Look: The Body, the Divine, and the Question of Civilization

Twilight Cities: Lost Capitals of the Mediterranean

A History of Ancient Rome in 100 Lives

Women in Roman Law and Society

Atalanta: The heroic story of the only female Argonaut

Cleopatra’s Daughter: From Roman Prisoner to African Queen

Messalina: A Story of Empire, Slander and Adultery

Silk Road: A New History

The Roman Triumph

Weavers, Scribes, and Kings: A New History of the Ancient Near East

Women in Antiquity: Real Women Across the Ancient World

Ancient DNA: The Making of a Celebrity Science

Helen of Troy

Agrippina: Empress, Exile, Hustler, Whore

Eurydice and the Birth of Macedonian Power

Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes

Stone Blind: A Novel

A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum: Murder in Ancient Rome

Faces of the Feminine in Ancient, Medieval, & Modern India

The Divine Feminine in Ancient Europe: Goddesses, Sacred Women and the Origins of Western Culture

Isis: Eternal Goddess of Egypt and Rome

Women in Antiquity: Real Women across the Ancient World

Enraged: Why Violent Times Need Ancient Greek Myths

The Ancient Guide to Modern Life

In Bed with the Ancient Egyptians

Stung with Love: Poems and Fragments

Dangerous Voices: Women’s Laments and Greek Literature

Mythologica: An Encyclopedia of Gods, Monsters and Mortals from Ancient Greece

The Amazons: Lives and Legends of Warrior Women Across the Ancient World

Agrippina: The Most Extraordinary Woman of the Roman World

SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome

Cleopatra: A Life

Daughters of Isis: Women of Ancient Egypt

Cleopatra: Last Queen of Egypt

From Eve to Dawn: A History of Women in the World, Vol. 1

Women’s Work: The First 20,000 Years: Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times

The Odyssey translated by Emily Wilson

When Women Ruled the World: Six Queens of Egypt

Helen of Troy: The Story Behind the Most Beautiful Woman in the World