Notes on Contributors
Hynek Bartoš
is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Humanities at the Charles University in Prague. He is the author of Philosophy and Dietetics in the Hippocratic On Regimen (Brill 2015) and a range of essays on the history of ancient Greek philosophy and medicine. Most recently, he co-edited (with C. G. King) the volume Heat, Pneuma, and Soul in Ancient Philosophy and Science (CUP 2020).
Sean Coughlin
is Research Fellow at the Collaborative Research Centre SFB 980 Episteme in Bewegung funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) at the Institute for Classical Philology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. He was previously a Research Fellow at Excellence Cluster Topoi and a Visiting Research Fellow at Einstein Centre Chronoi (Berlin), the Research Training Group “Philosophy, Science and the Sciences” (Berlin), and the Martin Buber Society of Fellows (Jerusalem). He is co-editor with David Leith and Orly Lewis of The Concept of Pneuma after Aristotle (Berlin: Edition Topoi, 2020) and he publishes on topics in Ancient Greek philosophy, science, and medicine.
Elizabeth Craik
formerly professor at Kyoto University, is now honorary professor in the School of Classics, University of St Andrews. She has in recent years published editions, with commentaries, of several Hippocratic texts (Places in Man, On Sight, On Anatomy, On Glands) and a complete scholarly guide to the Hippocratic Corpus (The Hippocratic Corpus: Content and Context), as well a range of articles.
Brooke Holmes
is Robert F. Goheen Professor in the Humanities at Princeton University. She is the author of The Symptom and the Subject: The Emergence of the Physical Body in Ancient Greece (2010) and Gender: Antiquity and its Legacy (2012), in addition to being the co-editor of five volumes, most recently Antiquities beyond Humanism (2019) and the exhibition project Liquid Antiquity (2017). From 2012 to 2020 she directed the programme Postclassicisms and co-authored Postclassicisms (2020). She is finishing a book entitled The Tissue of the World: Life, Nature, and Sympathy.
Helen King
is a historian of medicine and the body. She retired from The Open University in 2017. Since then she has held a one-year post at Gustavus Adolphus College, MN, to promote interdisciplinary approaches to history. Her earlier career included visiting roles at the Peninsula Medical School and the universities of Vienna, Texas, Notre Dame and British Columbia. She has published on aspects of medicine from classical Greece to the nineteenth century and her most recent book, Hippocrates Now, was published in 2019. She is currently working on a history of the female body for Profile Books.
Giouli Korobili
is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Post-doctoral Fellow at the University of Utrecht. She studied Classical Philology and Philosophy at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (BA), at the University of Ioannina (MA) and at Humboldt University of Berlin (Ph.D.). She has contributed to a number of collective volumes on Aristotle, ancient medicine and Byzantine Aristotelian commentators. She is currently revising her Ph.D. thesis on Aristotle’s On Youth and Old Age, on Life and Death, on Respiration for publication.
David Leith
is Senior Lecturer in Classics at the University of Exeter. His research focuses on Graeco-Roman medicine, and especially its interactions with philosophy. He has published on the Hellenistic and Roman medical sects and their theories, especially Herophilus, Erasistratus, Asclepiades and the Methodists, and has edited fragments of medical papyri for The Oxyrhynchus Papyri series. He is currently preparing an edition, with essays and commentary, of the testimonia on Asclepiades of Bithynia.
Vivian Nutton
is emeritus professor of the history of medicine at UCL. He has written extensively on many aspects of the history of medicine from the Ancient Greeks to the seventeenth century. His recent books include Ancient Medicine, 2nd edition, 2013; Johann Guinther and Andreas Vesalius, Principles of Anatomy according to Galen, 2017; An Autobibliography by John Caius, 2018; and Galen, a thinking Doctor in Imperial Rome, 2020. His current project is a history of medicine in the sixteenth century. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, and a member of the Ancient Society of College Youths.
Julius Rocca
is a Research Fellow at the Institute for Classical Philology, Humboldt University, Berlin, holding an award from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG). He graduated in medicine and philosophy, and was awarded his Ph.D. at the University of Sydney. He has published in ancient medicine and philosophy and has held Wellcome Trust Awards in the UK and a Fellowship at the Center for Hellenic Studies, Washington, DC. Works include Galen on the Brain (Brill’s Studies in Ancient Medicine Series: 2003), the edited volume Teleology in the Ancient World (Cambridge: 2017), and the chapter ‘Galen and Middle Platonism: The Case of the Demiurge’, in Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Plato in Antiquity (2018).
William Michael Short
is Lecturer in Classics at the University of Exeter. His research interests rest at the intersection of language, culture, and cognition, and in this area he has pioneered an approach to ancient Roman culture inspired by Lakovian conceptual metaphor theory. Besides being author of numerous studies of individual metaphors in Latin and Greek, he is editor of Embodiment in Latin Semantics, which introduced cognitive semantics into Latin linguistics, and of The World through Roman Eyes (with M. Bettini), which showcases anthropological approaches to the ancient world, as well as of several other collective volumes in the field of ‘cognitive’ classics.
P. N. Singer
is a Research Fellow at Birkbeck, University of London. He took his Ph.D. at Cambridge University and has held research posts at Newcastle University and at the Humboldt Universität and Einstein Center Chronoi, Berlin. His research centres on ancient views of psychology and the mind, in both medical and philosophical writing, with a particular focus on Galen. He published the first major collection of texts by Galen in English translation (Galen: Selected Works, OUP, 1997) and co-edited and translated the first two volumes of the Cambridge Galen Translations (Galen: Psychological Writings, CUP, 2013; Galen: Works on Human Nature, vol. I, CUP, 2018). He is co-editor, with Chiara Thumiger, of Mental Illness in Ancient Medicine: From Celsus to Paul of Aegina (Brill, 2018), and author of a range of articles on psychology, the emotions, health, disease classification, pharmacology and physiology, as well as on Graeco-Roman commentary and editorial practices, and aspects of ancient Greek drama.
Konstantinos Stefou
studied Classics and Ancient Philosophy at the University of Ioannina. In April 2014 he completed his Ph.D. entitled Early Greek Moral Values and Political Behaviour in Plato’s Works. He is currently a Post-doctoral Fellow at the Ionian University, Corfu, and an Adjunct Lecturer at the Democritus University of Thrace. He has authored a monograph and a number of papers on the Platonic Socrates and the so-called ‘Socratic’ dialogues. His research interests include ancient Greek and Roman literature, philosophy, historiography, oratory and rhetoric, and medicine.
Chiara Thumiger
Ph.D. (2004), Habil. (2017) is a Research Fellow at the Cluster of Excellence Roots, Kiel University. She is a classicist and historian of science. She has worked on a variety of medical themes and authors from the Hippocratic Corpus (her monograph A History of the Mind and Mental Health in Classical Greek Medical Thought was published in 2017) to the late-antique world and beyond (Mental Illness in Ancient Medicine. From Celsus to Paul of Aegina, 2018, co-edited with P. N. Singer). Most recently she has researched the history of the ancient disease phrenitis; the results of this work are now under submission in monographic form. She has also published on tragedy, ancient animals and the history of emotions.
Laurence Totelin
is Reader in Ancient History at Cardiff University. Her research focuses on the history of Greek and Roman botany, pharmacology, and gynaecology. Her publications include Hippocratic Recipes: Oral and Written Transmission of Pharmacological Knowledge in Fifth- and Fourth-Century Greece (Brill, 2009); with Gavin Hardy, Ancient Botany (Routledge, 2016); and edited with Rebecca Flemming, Medicine and Markets in the Graeco-Roman World and Beyond: Essays in Honour of Vivian Nutton (Classical Press of Wales, 2020).
Claire Trenery
is a Medieval historian based at Queen Mary University of London. She completed her Ph.D. at Royal Holloway in 2016 on the subject of madness in Medieval English miracle collections and published her first monograph, Madness, Medicine and Miracle in Twelfth-Century England, with Routledge in 2019. Her research explores how madness was distinguished and diagnosed as a condition of the mind and what effects it was thought to have on the bodies, minds and souls of sufferers whose miraculous encounters with madness were recorded by monks in large collections of miracles attributed to the saints.
John Z. Wee
read Assyriology and Classical History at Yale University (Ph.D., 2012), and is Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago (2015–). He is a historian of science, medicine, and mathematics in Mesopotamian and Graeco-Roman antiquity, and writes on the cultural histories of astronomical and medical ideas, scientific and mathematical language, and scholastic hermeneutics. Also from Brill are his monograph on Knowledge and Rhetoric in Medical Commentary (2019), a critical edition of Mesopotamian Commentaries on the Diagnostic Handbook Sa-gig (2019), and an edited volume of essays on The Comparable Body (2017).
Francis Zimmermann
teaches South Asian anthropology and history of science at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris. He has been combining the study of Sanskrit medical texts with ethnographic fieldwork in Kerala (South India) among learned practitioners of the local tradition of classical Ayurveda.