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Book Reviews

Please see below a list of some of the titles that have been reviewed:

  • Attila the Hun: Arch Enemy of Rome by Ian Hughes
  • Caligula by Simon Turney
  • Early Ships and Seafaring: European Water Transport by Seán McGrail
  • Graffiti in Antiquity by Peter Keegan
  • Group Identity and Religious Individuality in Late Antiquity by Éric Rebillard and Jörg Rüpke
  • Julius Caesar’s Disease by Francesco M. Galassi & Hutan Ashrafian
  • Legio XVII: Roman Legion at War by Thomas A. Timmes
  • Lucullus: The Life and Campaigns of a Roman Conqueror by Lee Fratantuono
  • Pax Romana: War, Peace and Conquest in the Roman World by Adrian Goldsworthy
  • Return of the Barbarians: Confronting Non-State Actors from Ancient Rome to the Present by Jakub J. Grygiel
  • Rome and America: The Great Republics - What the Fall of the Roman Republic Portends for the United States by Walter Signorelli
  • A Sacred Kingdom: Bishops and the Rise of Frankish Kingship by Michael E. Moore
  • The Bible and Early Trinitarian Theology by Christopher A. Beeley and Mark E. Weedman
  • The Middle Ages in 50 Objects by Elina Gertsman and Barbara H. Rosenwein
  • Women at War in the Classical World by Paul Chrystal


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  • Walter Signorelli
  • Alistair Forrest


Featured Book

  • Legionary: The Blood Road by Gordon Doherty


Archive - Books

  • 1177 B.C. The Year Civilization Collapsed by Eric H. Cline
  • The 300 (Single-Disc Widescreen Edition) (2007) - DVD
  • A Cabinet of Roman Curiosities by J.C. McKeown
  • A Companion to Julius Caesar by Miriam Griffin
  • A Companion to Roman Italy by Alison E. Cooley
  • Age of the Gladiators: Savagery & Spectacle in Ancient Rome by Rupert Matthews
  • The Earthly Gods: Agent of Rome 6 by Nick Brown
  • Agora (2010) - DVD
  • Agricola and Germania (Penguin Classics) by Tacitus
  • The Alamanni and Rome 213-496: Caracalla to Clovis by John F. Drinkwater
  • Alexander the Great by Paul Cartledge
  • All Things Under The Sun - How Modern Ideas Are Really Ancient by Lindsay Powell
  • In Search of our Ancient Ancestors by Anthony Adolph
  • Ancient Athens on 5 Drachmas a Day by Philip Matyszak
  • Ancient Celts by Barry Cunliffe
  • The Ancient Guide to Modern Life by Natalie Haynes
  • Ancient Medicine by Vivian Nutton
  • The Ancient Olympic Games: Third edition by Judith Swaddling
  • Ancient Rome: A Military and Political History by C.S. Mackay
  • An Imperial Possession - Britain in the Roman Empire by David Mattingly
  • An Invincible Beast: Understanding the Hellenistic Pike Phalanx in Action by Christopher Matthew
  • 428 AD: An Ordinary Year at the End of the Roman Empire by Giusto Traina
  • Antony & Cleopatra by Patricia Southern
  • The Archaeology of Sanitation in Roman Italy by Ann Olga Koloski-Ostrow
  • Arms & Armour of the Imperial Roman Soldier by Raffaele D'Amato & Graham Sumner
  • Arrows of Fury (Empire) by Anthony Riches
  • The Art of Forgetting: Disgrace and Oblivion in Roman Political Culture by Harriet I. Flower
  • Aspects of Roman History: 82 BC - AD 14 by M. Davies and H. Swain
  • The Assassination of Julius Caesar by Michael Parenti
  • Atlas of the Ancient Near East: From Prehistoric Times to the Roman Imperial Period by Trevor Bryce
  • Attila the Hun: A Barbarian King and the Fall of Rome by John Man
  • Augustan Culture by Karl Galinsky
  • Augustus (Edinburgh Readings on the Ancient World) edited by Jonathan Edmondson
  • Augustus: First Emperor of Rome by Adrian Goldsworthy
  • Aurelian and the Third Century by Alaric Watson
  • A Walk with the Emperors: A Historic and Literary Tour of Ancient Rome by Mott LL Groom
  • A Year of Ravens: A Novel of Boudica's Rebellion by Various Authors


Archive - Magazines

  • Ancient Warfare Magazine (Vol.III Issue 2)

More books and DVD reviews will be added soon. There are over 400 of them in the archive which need putting in the new site format, so it's taking some time!


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Roman Doctors

The majority of Roman doctors, at least early on, were self-taught or apprenticed practitioners who simply claimed to be healers, with little basis in real medical knowledge.

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An illustration of an ancient Roman hospital
Roman Hospitals

Hospitals as we know them today simply didn't exist in the Roman world. Romans generally regarded disease as an affliction of the gods requiring prayer, sacrifice and pagan rites to alleviate.

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An illustration of the Roman physician Claudius Galen
Claudius Galen

Galen (129 - 199 AD), after Hippocrates, may be the most prominent physician of the ancient world, and certainly of the Roman era. He had an exhaustive education and undertook in-depth research to advance medical knowledge of the time.

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A stone carving of a possible cosmetic surgery procedure in ancient Rome
Cosmetic Surgery

Plastic surgery was said to first be preformed in ancient Roman times. They preformed minor procedures such as Otoplasty, which is the repairing of damaged ears, and more complicated procedures like scar removal.

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Roman Medicine by Audrey Cruse
Roman Medicine
by Audrey Cruse

This comprehensive book looks at the many different aspects of medicine and health in the Roman Empire, especially with regard to doctors, their drugs and their surgical equipment.

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The Prince of Medicine: Galen in the Roman Empire by Susan P. Mattern
The Prince of Medicine: Galen in the Roman Empire
by Susan P. Mattern

The Prince of Medicine gives us Galen as he lived his life, in the city of Rome at its apex of power and decadence, among his friends, his rivals, and his patients. It offers a deeply human and long-overdue portrait of one of ancient history's most significant and engaging figures.

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Greek and Roman Medicine by Helen King
Greek and Roman Medicine
by Helen King

What happened if you fell sick in the classical world? This book looks at beliefs about the inside of the body and its functioning held in Greek and Roman society.

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Roman Military Medicine by V.J. Belfiglio and S.I. Sullivant
Roman Military Medicine
by V.J. Belfiglio and S.I. Sullivant

This book sheds light on the mostly obscure topic of medicine and its use in the Roman military. It explores the workings of the ancient healthcare system, the methods of care by physicians, and the treatments for different ailments and injuries.

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Power and Knowledge: Astrology, Physiognomics, and Medicine under the Roman Empire by Tamsyn Barton
Power and Knowledge: Astrology, Physiognomics, and Medicine under the Roman Empire
by Tamsyn Barton

Power and Knowledge charts a history of three ancient scientiae in the Roman Empire--astrology, medical prognosis, and physiognomy (the art of discerning character or destiny from a person's physique).

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Medicine and the Making of Roman Women: Gender, Nature, and Authority from Celsus to Galen by Rebecca Flemming
Medicine and the Making of Roman Women: Gender, Nature, and Authority from Celsus to Galen
by Rebecca Flemming

In this book, Dr Flemming includes new translations of some of the works of medical practitioners from Celsus, writing during the reign of Tiberius, to Galen, whose career ended under the Severans, and puts their ideas about women's bodies in their social and philosophical contexts.

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Army Medical Practices
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Human Dissection in Ancient Medicine
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Trying to Understand Galen's view on Medicine
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Egyptians, not Greeks were true fathers of medicine
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Advances In Medicine
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Evidence for Medics Amongst the Milites
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Roman Toilets Spread Parasites
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