Body and Medicine in Latin Poetry Conference,
Speakers and Abstracts
Thorsten Fögen, Durham University
Judith P. Hallett, University of Maryland, College Park
George Kazantzidis, University of Patras
Chiara Thumiger, Roots - Kiel University
James Uden, Boston University
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Hunter Gardner, University of South Carolina
Julia Nelson Hawkins, The Ohio State University
Donald Lateiner, Ohio Wesleyan University
Laurence Totelin, Cardiff University
Ioannis Ziogas, Durham University
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Chiara Blanco, Trinity College, University of Oxford
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Allegra Hahn, Durham University
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Simona Martorana, Durham University
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Thorsten Fögen is Associate Professor in the Department of Classics and Ancient History at Durham University. His interests lie in Latin literature from the late Republic until the early Empire, with particular regard to ancient technical texts, epistolography, animals in antiquity, history of linguistic ideas. His published works include a book on Roman authors' attitudes towards the Latin language ('Patrii sermonis egestas': Einstellungen lateinischer Autoren zu ihrer Muttersprache, Munich & Leipzig 2000: Saur) and a study dealing with Roman technical writing (Wissen, Kommunikation und Selbstdarstellung. Zur Struktur und Charakteristik römischer Fachtexte der frühen Kaiserzeit, Munich 2009: C.H.Beck).
Hunter Gardner is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of South Carolina. Her initial research efforts were devoted primarily to exploring the relationship between the genre of Latin love elegy and the Augustan historical context from which it emerged. Her first book, Gendering Time in Augustan Love Elegy, was published by Oxford University Press in 2013. Her latest research explores the development of plague narratives in the western tradition and, in particular, looks to Roman epic poets writing in the late Republic and early Principate as significant contributors to depictions of contagion. She has recently published the monograph Pestilence and Civil War in Latin Literature (2019, OUP).
Judith P. Hallett is Professor of Classics and Distinguished Scholar-Teacher Emerita at the University of Maryland, College Park. She has published widely in the areas of Latin language and literature; women, the family and sexuality in Greco-Roman antiquity; and the study and reception of classics in the Anglophone world. A former Blegen Visiting Scholar in the Department of Classics at Vassar College and Suzanne Deal Booth Resident Scholar at the Center for Intercollegiate Studies in Rome, she has also held fellowships from the Mellon Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities. A 2013 collection of essays from Routledge— Domina Illustris: Latin Literature, Gender and Reception, edited by Donald Lateiner, Barbara Gold and Judith Perkins—celebrates her academic career.
Julia Nelson Hawkins is Associate Professor of Classics and Project Director for Medical and Health Humanities and Arts Discovery Theme at The Ohio State University. Her research interests focus on Latin poetry, ancient medicine and reception of Hellenistic culture in Rome. Her publications include: Therapoetics after Actium: Narrative, Medicine, and Authority in Augustan Epic, coming out with Johns Hopkins University Press; "Caesar and Caesarean Section: the Poetics of Medicine and Childbirth in Ovid's Metamorphoses" (2008, in "Papers on Ancient Literatures: Greece, Rome, and the Near East"), and "The Ritual of Therapy: Venus the Healer in Virgil's Aeneid" (2004, in "Rituals in Ink: Proceedings from a Colloquium on Roman Religion"). Nelson Hawkins is also Project Director for Medical and Health Humanities and Arts at OSU and is working to build a larger infrastructure uniting Medicine and the Arts & Humanities at Ohio State.
George Kazantzidis is Assistant Professor of Latin Literature at the University of Patras, Greece. His interests lie primarily in the intersections between ancient medicine and poetry, with special emphasis on the history of mental illness. His published works include a discussion of doctors’ medical language in Greek and Roman comedy and a reassessment of Callimachus’ Acontius and Cydippe (Aetia fr.75) through the lens of Hippocratic gynaecology, as well as an edited volume on ancient medicine and paradoxography (Medicine and Paradoxography in Antiquity, De Gruyter, 2019).
Donald Lateiner is Professor emeritus of Humanities and Classics at Ohio Wesleyan University. He has published The Historical Method of Herodotus (1989), Nonverbal Behaviors in Homeric Epic (1995), and annotated English translations of the Histories of Herodotus (2004) and Thucydides (2006). He is the co-editor of Thucydides & Herodotus (2012), Domina Illustris, Judith Hallett’s Festschrift (2013) and The Ancient Emotion of Disgust (2017). His research examined proxemics and gestures in Hellenic epics, cross-dressing in Ovid, humiliation in Apuleius, silence in Aristophanes, and smell in ancient novels.
Chiara Thumiger is a member of the Cluster of Excellence ROOTS at the University of Kiel. She is interested in the history and narratives of human health and illness. Her project, titled “Ancient Guts”, investigates ancient views about nutritional processes in a broad cultural historical perspective. She has worked extensively on ancient medical ideas about the relationship between the body and the soul, bodily and mental/spiritual health and mental disorder. Her publications include A History of the Mind and Mental Health in Classical Greek Medical Thought (Cambridge University Press, 2017), and the co-edited volume Homo Patiens. Approaches to the Patient in the Ancient World (Brill, 2015).
Laurence Totelin is Reader in Ancient History at Cardiff University. Her interests focus on the history of pharmacology and botany. She is currently interested in the ancient history of milk, with a focus on its symbolism in ancient cultures. Her work is influenced by gender theory, and she has a particular interest in gynaecological treatments, aphrodisiacs, and the properties of milk (especially breast-milk). Her publications include a co-edited volume on ancient medicine and markets (2020. Medicine and markets in the Graeco-Roman world and beyond: Essays in honour of Vivian Nutton. Classical Press of Wales, 2020) and a book chapter on ancient botany (What's a plant?. In: Taub, L. ed. The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek and Roman Science. Cambridge University Press, 2020).
James Uden is Associate Professor of Classical Studies at Boston University. His research focuses on Latin literature and the transformation of ancient ideas in later eras, especially the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. He has published essays on a broad range of topics, including Catullus, Virgil, love elegy, travel literature, and ancient fable. His publications include The Invisible Satirist: Juvenal and Second-Century Rome (Oxford, 2015; paperback 2018) and Spectres of Antiquity: Classical Literature and the Gothic, 1740-1830 (Oxford, 2020). His project, tentatively entitled The Veins of the Muse: Medicine and Literature in the Roman Empire, is funded by a New Directions grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Ioannis Ziogas is Associate Professor in the Department of Classics and Ancient History at Durham University. His interests revolve around the politics and poetics of Latin poetry, mainly of the age of Augustus. His first book (Ovid and Hesiod: The Metamorphosis of the Catalogue of Women, CUP 2013) offers the first wide-ranging study of Hesiod’s reception in Ovid. He has recently published a monograph entitled Law and Love in Ovid: Courting Justice in the Age of Augustus (OUP, 2021), which aims to open a dialogue between legal theory and classical literature by examining the interdependence of legal and poetic discourse in Ovid's poetic production.
Hunter Gardner is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of South Carolina. Her initial research efforts were devoted primarily to exploring the relationship between the genre of Latin love elegy and the Augustan historical context from which it emerged. Her first book, Gendering Time in Augustan Love Elegy, was published by Oxford University Press in 2013. Her latest research explores the development of plague narratives in the western tradition and, in particular, looks to Roman epic poets writing in the late Republic and early Principate as significant contributors to depictions of contagion. She has recently published the monograph Pestilence and Civil War in Latin Literature (2019, OUP).
Judith P. Hallett is Professor of Classics and Distinguished Scholar-Teacher Emerita at the University of Maryland, College Park. She has published widely in the areas of Latin language and literature; women, the family and sexuality in Greco-Roman antiquity; and the study and reception of classics in the Anglophone world. A former Blegen Visiting Scholar in the Department of Classics at Vassar College and Suzanne Deal Booth Resident Scholar at the Center for Intercollegiate Studies in Rome, she has also held fellowships from the Mellon Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities. A 2013 collection of essays from Routledge— Domina Illustris: Latin Literature, Gender and Reception, edited by Donald Lateiner, Barbara Gold and Judith Perkins—celebrates her academic career.
Julia Nelson Hawkins is Associate Professor of Classics and Project Director for Medical and Health Humanities and Arts Discovery Theme at The Ohio State University. Her research interests focus on Latin poetry, ancient medicine and reception of Hellenistic culture in Rome. Her publications include: Therapoetics after Actium: Narrative, Medicine, and Authority in Augustan Epic, coming out with Johns Hopkins University Press; "Caesar and Caesarean Section: the Poetics of Medicine and Childbirth in Ovid's Metamorphoses" (2008, in "Papers on Ancient Literatures: Greece, Rome, and the Near East"), and "The Ritual of Therapy: Venus the Healer in Virgil's Aeneid" (2004, in "Rituals in Ink: Proceedings from a Colloquium on Roman Religion"). Nelson Hawkins is also Project Director for Medical and Health Humanities and Arts at OSU and is working to build a larger infrastructure uniting Medicine and the Arts & Humanities at Ohio State.
George Kazantzidis is Assistant Professor of Latin Literature at the University of Patras, Greece. His interests lie primarily in the intersections between ancient medicine and poetry, with special emphasis on the history of mental illness. His published works include a discussion of doctors’ medical language in Greek and Roman comedy and a reassessment of Callimachus’ Acontius and Cydippe (Aetia fr.75) through the lens of Hippocratic gynaecology, as well as an edited volume on ancient medicine and paradoxography (Medicine and Paradoxography in Antiquity, De Gruyter, 2019).
Donald Lateiner is Professor emeritus of Humanities and Classics at Ohio Wesleyan University. He has published The Historical Method of Herodotus (1989), Nonverbal Behaviors in Homeric Epic (1995), and annotated English translations of the Histories of Herodotus (2004) and Thucydides (2006). He is the co-editor of Thucydides & Herodotus (2012), Domina Illustris, Judith Hallett’s Festschrift (2013) and The Ancient Emotion of Disgust (2017). His research examined proxemics and gestures in Hellenic epics, cross-dressing in Ovid, humiliation in Apuleius, silence in Aristophanes, and smell in ancient novels.
Chiara Thumiger is a member of the Cluster of Excellence ROOTS at the University of Kiel. She is interested in the history and narratives of human health and illness. Her project, titled “Ancient Guts”, investigates ancient views about nutritional processes in a broad cultural historical perspective. She has worked extensively on ancient medical ideas about the relationship between the body and the soul, bodily and mental/spiritual health and mental disorder. Her publications include A History of the Mind and Mental Health in Classical Greek Medical Thought (Cambridge University Press, 2017), and the co-edited volume Homo Patiens. Approaches to the Patient in the Ancient World (Brill, 2015).
Laurence Totelin is Reader in Ancient History at Cardiff University. Her interests focus on the history of pharmacology and botany. She is currently interested in the ancient history of milk, with a focus on its symbolism in ancient cultures. Her work is influenced by gender theory, and she has a particular interest in gynaecological treatments, aphrodisiacs, and the properties of milk (especially breast-milk). Her publications include a co-edited volume on ancient medicine and markets (2020. Medicine and markets in the Graeco-Roman world and beyond: Essays in honour of Vivian Nutton. Classical Press of Wales, 2020) and a book chapter on ancient botany (What's a plant?. In: Taub, L. ed. The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek and Roman Science. Cambridge University Press, 2020).
James Uden is Associate Professor of Classical Studies at Boston University. His research focuses on Latin literature and the transformation of ancient ideas in later eras, especially the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. He has published essays on a broad range of topics, including Catullus, Virgil, love elegy, travel literature, and ancient fable. His publications include The Invisible Satirist: Juvenal and Second-Century Rome (Oxford, 2015; paperback 2018) and Spectres of Antiquity: Classical Literature and the Gothic, 1740-1830 (Oxford, 2020). His project, tentatively entitled The Veins of the Muse: Medicine and Literature in the Roman Empire, is funded by a New Directions grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Ioannis Ziogas is Associate Professor in the Department of Classics and Ancient History at Durham University. His interests revolve around the politics and poetics of Latin poetry, mainly of the age of Augustus. His first book (Ovid and Hesiod: The Metamorphosis of the Catalogue of Women, CUP 2013) offers the first wide-ranging study of Hesiod’s reception in Ovid. He has recently published a monograph entitled Law and Love in Ovid: Courting Justice in the Age of Augustus (OUP, 2021), which aims to open a dialogue between legal theory and classical literature by examining the interdependence of legal and poetic discourse in Ovid's poetic production.
