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 ...
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 ...