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Dr Caroline Petit is a classicist with special interest in ancient medical texts, especially Galen and the Galenic corpus. She was trained in classical philology and French literature in Paris and completed her Doctoral thesis at the same university in 2004. Since 2000 she has taught Classics, ancient history and the history of medicine at the universities of Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV), Exeter and Manchester where she held Wellcome Trust research fellowships (2004-2007 and 2007-2010 respectively). Before joining 糖心TV in October 2012, Dr Caroline Petit also held a honorary fellowship at the Wellcome Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL and a research fellowship at the Institute of Classical Studies, London.

Dr. Caroline Petit is an associate member of the Centre for the Study of the Renaissance

Research interests

My interests lie in the textual transmission, translation and interpretation of ancient medical texts; in the history of rhetoric; and in the long history of ancient medical texts and the many ways they have been appropriated up to modern times.

In the past I have also been involved as a translator in others' projects such as an anthology of black bile (with ), the works of a 17th c. stand-up comedian, Bruscambille (with ) and the history of Hermogenes鈥� spurious Progymnasmata (with Mike Edwards).

Distinctions: the book arising from my doctoral thesis (Galien. Oeuvres, tome III. Le m茅decin: Introduction, Les Belles Lettres, 2009) won me two awards (Prix Lantier de l'Acad茅mie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres, 2010; Prix Raymond Weil de l'Association pour l'encouragement des 茅tudes grecques en France, 2010). My monograph, Galien de Pergame ou la rh茅torique de la Providence: m茅decine, litt茅rature et pouvoir 脿 Rome (2018) was awarded the quinquennal M茅daille de Ch茅nier de l'Acad茅mie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres (2019).

In November 2020 I was awarded the Wilhelm Friedrich Bessel Research Prize of the Humboldt Foundation.

Teaching and supervision

• Medicine in the Ancient World (module leader)
• Rhetorics (module leader)
• Greek Literary Texts (contributes)
• Health and the Environment from Antiquity to Renaissance Venice (module leader)

I am keen to supervise students in the following areas of ancient history and literature: medicine; sciences and techniques; intellectual history; rhetoric.

I would be happy to sponsor excellent PhD candidates for a (please note the scheme is highly competitive) for a dissertation in Medical Humanities (preferably with a focus on ancient medicine, or its reception, esp. in the Renaissance).

Currently supervised students: Claudio Azzarito (CIS)

Past supervised dissertations:

Manuela Marai (PhD). Passed 2024

Simone Mucci (PhD, Galen's De antidotis). Passed 2023.

Maria Karolidou (MAR, Themistius, passed 2020, Distinction); Matt Smith (MAR, Dreams - passed 2019, Distinction).Andree Bagley (Children in medicine in the Roman world), PhD (passed 2016); Andrew Ballantine (Early philosophy & Hippocratic corpus) MAR (passed 2016).

Selected publications

Books (authored)

• (forthc.) Medicine. Antiquity and its Legacy, Bloomsbury
• (2023)

• (2018) , Leiden, Brill Mnemosyne Supplements -

Books (edited):

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*(2021)

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*(2020) (with M. Martelli and L. Raggetti)

*(2018) , Leiden, Brill Studies in Ancient Medicine *OPEN ACCESS*

Articles and chapters:

• 2024 鈥楪alen, Rhetoric and the Second Sophistic鈥� in R. Rosen, and P. Singer eds, Oxford Handbook of Galen, Oxford University Press, 87-99
• 2023 鈥楳茅decine et humanisme en P茅rigord : l鈥檌nvention de la langue fran莽aise selon Erv茅 Fayard (Galen sur la facult茅 dez simples medicamans, 1548)鈥�, Rhetorica 41.3, 279-296
• 2023 鈥楥hoc climatique et choc biologique. Les ennemis invisibles de l鈥橢mpire鈥�, in : L鈥檈mpire post-romain, sous la direction de S. Destephen, Hermann, Paris, 17-24
• 2023 鈥楻hetoric in Medical Writing: Artistic Prose?鈥� in C. Bubb & M. Peachin eds, Medicine and Law under the Roman Empire, Oxford University Press (Oxford Studies in Roman Society and Law), 284-307
• 2023 鈥樷�楬umanitas鈥� and the Galenic Doctor. Medicine, Philosophy and Religion in the Renaissance鈥�, in: A. R. Das (Ed), Galen鈥檚 Humanistic Medicine. The Essay Quod optimus medicus sit quoque philosophus (Mohr Siebeck, 2023), 155-167
• 2022 'Excessive Temper(ament), Flawed Character: The Entanglement of the Ethical and the Medical in the History of Rhetoric', Journal for the History of Rhetoric 25-1, 31-55
• 2022 'La r茅ception du trait茅 des Simples de Galien 脿 l'茅poque de Rabelais', L'Ann茅e Rabelaisienne 6, 71-91
• 2021 'Medical Humanism in the Making: Symphorien Champier (1471-1539) and Galen', Arts et savoirs 15
• 2021 'Greek Particles in Galen's Oeuvre: Some Case Studies', Scripta Classica Israelica 40, 95-123
• 2020 'Les manuscrits grecs du trait茅 des Simples de Galien', Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Sciences 70, 76-113
• 2018 'Death, Posterity and the Vulnerable Self: 蟺蔚蟻峤� 峒�位蠀蟺委伪蟼 in the context of Galen's later works', in C. Petit (ed.), A Tale of Resilience. Galen's De indolentia in Context
• 2017:

• 2017:

• 2016: 'Alexandrie, carrefour des traditions m茅dicales au 7e s.: Les t茅moignages de Sophrone de J茅rusalem, Alexandre de Tralles, Paul d'Egine, St茅phane d'Alexandrie et Jean d'Alexandrie' in

• 2014: What does Pseudo-Galen tell us that Galen does not? Ancient medical schools in the Roman Empire', in P. Adamson/R. Hansberger/J. Wilberding (eds), Philosophical Themes in Galen, BICS supplement 114, 2014, 269-290

• 2014: 'Signes et pr茅sages: le discours pr茅dictif et ses enjeux chez Art茅midore, Galien et Ptol茅m茅e', in C. CHandezon/J. Du Bouchet (eds), Art茅midore de Daldis et l'interpr茅tation des r锚ves, Les Belles Lettres, 2014, 161-190

• 2013: 'La tradition latine du trait茅 des Simples de Galien. Remarques pr茅liminaires', Medicina nei Secoli, N.S. 25-3, 2013, 1063-1090

• 2013: 'Galen's pharmacological concepts and terminology in Simon of Genoa's Clavis Sanationis' in B. Zipser (ed.) Simon of Genoa's Medical Lexicon, 2013, 129-148

• 2013: 鈥楾he fate of a Greek medical handbook in the medieval West: the Introduction, or the Physician ascribed to Galen鈥� in B. Zipser (ed), Iatrosophia. Byzantine Medical Manuals in Context, 2: 57-78

• 2012: , in G. Cobolet/V. Boudon-Millot (eds), Ren茅 Chartier 茅diteur des oeuvres d鈥橦ippocrate et de Galien. Medic@ series, De Boccard: Paris, 287-300.

• 2012: , in J. Coste/D. Jacquart/J. Pigeaud (eds), La rh茅torique m茅dicale 脿 travers les si猫cles. Hautes 茅tudes m茅di茅vales et modernes, Droz: Paris, 49-75

• 2011:, Medicina e Storia 11, 2011 (21-22), 113-139

• 2010: , in V. Boudon-Millot, J. Jouanna, A. Garzya, A. Roselli (eds), Histoire de la tradition et 茅dition des m茅decins grecs – Storia della tradizione e edizione dei medici greci, D'Auria: Napoli, 143-165

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Qualifications

• M.A. and M.Phil in Classics and French (Paris IV - Sorbonne)

• PhD in Classics (Paris IV- Sorbonne)