Thomas Runge Martin (born 1947) is an American classicist and philologist who specializes in the history of the Greco-Roman world.
Chair in the Department of Classics at the College of the Holy Cross, where he teaches courses on the Athenian democracy, hellenism, and the Roman Empire.
His research field covers the history of ancient Greece and Rome and numismatics.
He is author and co-author of several publications and articles, among which include Sovereignty and Coinage in Classical Greece (Princeton University Press, 1985), Ancient Greece: From Prehistoric to Hellenistic Times (Yale University Press, 1992), The Making of the West: Peoples and Cultures (Bedford/St.
Martin's, 2 vol., 2001) and Herodotus and Sima Qian: The First Great Historians of Greece and China (Bedford/St.