Jeremy Simmons Assistant Professor of History and the College University Of Chicago Commons username: @jasimmons ORCID iD: 0000-0003-4113-0656 history.uchicago.edu/directory/jeremy-simmons Following 1 members View ProfileActivitySites 5Following 1Followers 1Groups 34ForumsDocs 0 Academic InterestsAncient historyCultural geographyEconomic historyEthnographyIndian OceanMateralismsMediterranean studiesNumismaticsOceanic studies Commons GroupsHCAncient Greece & RomeAncient HistoriographyAncient Jew ReviewAncient literacyAncient Near EastAncient NumismaticsArchaeologyAsia LusitanaBuddhist StudiesByzantine ArchaeologyByzantine StudiesClassical archaeologyClassical Philology and LinguisticsClassical TraditionCultural StudiesEarly MedievalEnvironmental archaeologyGlobal & Transnational StudiesGreek and Roman Intellectual HistoryHistoriography Recent Commons Activity joined the group Ancient Historiography joined the group Ancient Near East joined the group Sensory Studies joined the group Asia Lusitana joined the group Byzantine Archaeology Blog Posts KCWorksBook sectionCoining Koine: Reading Numismatic Images in the Context of Global Exchange (2025-09-18)Ancient Indian Ocean Trade and the Roman Economy (2022-11-18)“Indo-Roman” Trade and the Dakshinapatha (2022-09)Dire Straits: Safeguarding Trade on the Red Sea and Gulf of Khambhat (ca 1‑300 CE) (2022-07-04)Pepper and Paradox in the Roman Imagination (2021-07)Paideia, God, and the Transformation of Egyptian Lore in Plutarch’s De Iside et Osiride (2020-09-18)Journal articleIndian Ocean Trade (2024-07-17)Behind Gold for Pepper: The Players and the Game of Indo-Mediterranean Trade (2023-10-09)Pepper Consumption and the Importance of Taste in Roman Medicine (2020)Making Sense of Nonsense: Approaches to Greco-Roman Legends on Western Kṣatrapa Coinage (2019)ReviewRachel Mairs (ed.). The Graeco-Bactrian and Indo-Greek World (2021)Matthew Adam Cobb. Rome and the Indian Ocean Trade from Augustus to the Early Third Century CE (2019)Kasper Grønlund Evers. Worlds apart trading together: the organisation of long-distance trade between Rome and India in antiquity (2018)