Routledge Ancient Biographies
Enheduana: Princess, Priestess, Poetess
1st Edition
By Alhena Gadotti
May 02, 2025
Enheduana: Princess, Priestess, Poetess offers the first comprehensive biography of Enheduana, daughter of Sargon of Agade and one of the most intriguing, yet elusive, women from antiquity. Royal princess, priestess, and alleged author, Enheduana deserves as much attention as her martial relatives....
Tutankhamun: A Biography
1st Edition
By Martin Bommas
December 02, 2024
Over a century after his discovery, this comprehensive biography of Tutankhamun explores a wealth of evidence, including archaeological and ancient textual sources, DNA analysis and CT scanning, bringing to life a pharaoh who has remained elusive apart from his grandiose tomb treasures. For the ...
Cyrus the Great: A Biography of Kingship
1st Edition
By Lynette Mitchell
November 29, 2024
Cyrus the Great was a celebrity of the ancient world, the founder of one of the first world empires in the ancient Near East, whose life and deeds were celebrated through the many stories told about him, then and for millennia. This book offers an analysis of these stories, locating them within ...
Agrippa II: The Last of the Herods
1st Edition
By David Jacobson
June 30, 2021
Agrippa II is the first comprehensive biography of the last descendant of Herod the Great to rule as a client king of Rome. Agrippa was the last king to assume responsibility for the management of the Temple in Jerusalem, and he ultimately saw its destruction in the Judaean-Roman War.This study ...
Herod: King of the Jews and Friend of the Romans
2nd Edition
By Peter Richardson, Amy Marie Fisher
August 14, 2020
Herod: King of the Jews and Friend of the Romans examines the life, work, and influence of this controversial figure, who remains the most highly visible of the Roman client kings under Augustus. Herod’s rule shaped the world in which Christianity arose and his influence can still be seen today. In...
L. Munatius Plancus: Serving and Surviving in the Roman Revolution
2nd Edition
By Thomas H. Watkins
August 14, 2020
This volume examines the life and career of L. Munatius Plancus, and through him, explores the tumultuous final years of the Roman Republic. Plancus had very active and lengthy political career, from his initial appearance on the staff of Julius Caesar in Gaul in 54BC at least through the ...
Galen: A Thinking Doctor in Imperial Rome
1st Edition
By Vivian Nutton
May 20, 2020
This volume offers a comprehensive biography of the Roman physician Galen, and explores his activities and ideas as a doctor and intellectual, as well as his reception in later centuries. Nutton’s wide-ranging study surveys Galen's early life and medical education, as well as his later career in ...