The Treatment of War Wounds in Graeco-Roman Antiquity

by Christine F. Salazar

This volume is the first monograph to deal with the subject of battle trauma in antiquity; it discusses medical and practical aspects of wound treatment, war wounds as a topos in literature and the archaeological evidence.

332 pages, Leather Bound

First published December 20, 1999

Reviews

[Pancha · Rating 2 out of 5]

This was written for a scholarly audience (it's an expansion of the author's PhD thesis), which means citations litter the page, and the footnotes are choked with original Greek and Latin. It also really, really reads like a thesis, which can be frustrating at times when what you want is a smooth narrative. That aside, the information was very interesting.

[Caitlin · Rating 4 out of 5]

A lot of depth and information. At times difficult to digest but it has saved my summative so I can’t complain too much