What Is Ancient History?

From one of today’s most innovative ancient historians, a provocative new vision of why ancient history matters—and why it needs to be told in a radically different, global way It’s easy to think that ancient history is, well, ancient history—obsolete, irrelevant, unjustifiably focused on Greece and Rome, and at risk of extinction. In What Is Ancient History? , Walter Scheidel presents a compelling case for a new kind of ancient history—a global history that captures antiquity’s pivotal role as