Ανακοινώσεις μαθήματος Ancient Greek Science

emails + trip to Cyprus

Fri, 04 Apr 2025 21:35:54 +0300

Dear All,

I hope this finds you well.

I must apologize, for I have messed up my gmail inbox and I must have deleted some emails by mistake. If ANYONE has sent me an email in the past few days, to which they did not receive a reply, please re-send it and I will respond asap.

Regarding the trip to Cyprus and those of you who have expressed interest in participating. Unfortunately, Johns Hopkins has called off the trip. I am sorry that it won't be happening this year, but please stay tuned for next year. We will be advertising a Summer Workshop for 2026 in the next few months.

All best,

g.k.

Topics of research

Thu, 13 Mar 2025 21:52:04 +0300

Dear students,

(1) For those interested in reading some bibliography for the Hippocratic 'On the Sacred Disease' and some of the questions which we addressed in previous classes, please consult the 2003 book by G. Lloyd, entitled In the Grip of Disease: Studies in the Greek Imagination (Oxford University Press).

(2) Below is a general list of topics. You can select an item/topic for your presentation and essay for this semester. Once you do this, I will give you detailed bibliography for each subject. We'll talk about the list in detaill next time we meet.

I will see you next Wednesday,

G.K.

Medicine and literature (e.g. medicine and Greek tragedy, medicine and the ancient novel etc.)
Medicine and philosophy (Plato, Aristotle)
Experiments in medicine
Women and female patients in medicine
Medicine and wonder
Prognosis in medicine
Medicine and technology
Medicine and religion
Emotions as diagnostic tools in medicine
The relationship between doctor and patient
Medicine and mental illness (madness and melancholy)
Medicine and its relation to other sciences (e.g. mathematics, geography, astronomy etc)

3rd lecture

Sun, 09 Mar 2025 17:38:17 +0300

Dear class,

I hope you are all doing well.

I just uploaded a document for Wednesday's class, entitled: '3rd lecture, On the sacred disease'.

Please, have a look at the document (it includes chapters 5-10 from the treatise) and as you go through it, put on a list what you think is important from an argumentative/scientific perspective.

We'll discuss these issues in detail on Wednesday.

g.k.