Approaches to Ancient Medicine


Approaches to Ancient Medicine


supported by the Wellcome Trust and the Classical Association

University of Exeter


22 – 23 August, 2011



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CONFERENCE PROGRAMME


The Centre for Medical History, University of Exeter


DAY 1: Monday 22nd August 2011


12.00 – 13.00 Lunch and registration

Xfi Centre, Streatham Campus


Conference Presentations:

Xfi Lecture Theatre


Session 1 - Hippocrates


13.00 – 13.30 Andreas Serafim (University College, London)


Stasis as disease in the human body and the body politic.


13.30 – 14.00 Chiara Thumiger (von Humboldt University)


Some remarks on mental insanity in the medical texts.


14.00 – 14.30 Roberto Lo Presti (von Humboldt University)


"For sleep is in some way an epileptic fit” (Somn.Vig. 3, 457 a9-10): the association of sleep with epilepsy between Aristotle, Aristotelianism, and the medical tradition"


14.30 – 14.45 Short break


Session 2 - Galen: Texts and Narratives


14.45 – 15.15 Brooke Holmes (Princeton University)


The Sympathetic Cosmos and the Purposeful Body in Galen’s On Natural

Faculties.


15.15 – 15.45 Daniel King (Merton College, Oxford)


The Narrative Structure of Medical Knowledge: Galen, the language of pain, and

diagnosis in ancient medicine.


15.45 – 16.15 Caroline Petit (Institute of Classical Studies, University of
London)


Galen’s style: the problem of authenticity in the Galenic corpus.


16.15 – 16.45 Tea and Coffee, served in Xfi Conference Room


Session 3 - Classical Athens


16.45 – 17.15 George Kazantzidis (St Hugh’s College, Oxford)


‘Re-negotiating the origins of black bile: evidence from a comic fragment
(Kassel-

Austin VIII adesp. fr.1105.76)’.


17.15 – 17.45 Aileen Das (University of Warwick)


Plato and Galen on the “Ensouled” Plant: Plat.Tim. 3.2.


Session 4 Early Modern


17.45 – 18.15 Helen King (The Open University)


The early modern Phaethousa: transformations of a Hippocratic case history.


18.15 – 18.45 Lisa Jarman (University of Exeter)


Changing attitudes to Galen: the role of ancient authority in early modern

surgery.


EVENING


19.30 Conference Dinner in Holland Hall


DAY 2: Tuesday 23rd August 2011


Session 5 Under the Empire


09.30 – 10.00 David Leith (Jesus College, Cambridge)


‘Pliny the Elder on Asclepiades.’


10.00 – 10.30 Georgia Petridou (von Humboldt University)


Medicine as a Mysterium? Exploring the esoteric nature of Asklepios’

medicinal philosophy and experience in Aelius Aristeides’ Hieroi

Logoi.


10.30 – 11.00 Lindsay Penner (University of Calgary)


My Name is Doctor Asclepiades: Medical Workers in Latin Inscriptions.


11.00 – 11.30 Tea and Coffee, served in Xfi Conference Room


Session 6 - Late Antiquity


11.30 – 12.00 Olga Jarman (St. Petersburg, The State Pediatric Academy)


Ancient Physicians as ‘earthly gods’ in Medieval Byzantine poetry.


12.00 – 12.30 Caroline Macé (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)


Knowledge of medicine in Greek Christian Questions-and-Answers

literature.


12.30 – 13.00 Matteo Martelli (von Humboldt University)


The Syriac tradition of Galen’s On Simple Drugs, 9th book.


13.00 – 14.30 Lunch - served in Xfi Conference Room


14.30 Departure

Kind regards

Robert Leigh

Kind regards

Robert Leigh