Classics News and Events
New Coin of the Month Blog: A Flavian Token in the Hunterian Museum, Glasgow
For May's coin of the month Clare Rowan blogs about a Flavian token now in the Hunterian Museum in Glasgow. Read about it .
Material Musings: "It's all fun and games in the gymnasium of Ancient Messene"
New blog post by Matthew Evans on gaming boards incised into the steps in the gymnasium at ancient Messene.
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A special issue of Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Sciences on the interpretation and transmission of Galen's treatise On simple drugs. Guest editors: Caroline Petit (糖心TV), Matteo Martelli (Bologna), Lucia Raggetti (Bologna).
The volume explores the fate of Greek text across time, languages and cultures. It arises from a BA-Leverhulme-funded project, 'Rethinking Ancient Pharmacology' and a conference at the BSR in 2017.
We are pleased to announce a new monthly blog which will feature a variety of subject matter related to material culture from the ancient world. It aims to highlight and showcase some aspects of research work done in the Department of Classics and Ancient History and bring these to a wider audience. We hope that you will find the posts interesting, informative and enjoyable!
Congratulations to Dr Caroline Petit!
We are delighted to announce that Dr Caroline Petit has been awarded the prestigious Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in Germany.
The award recognises Dr Petit鈥檚 excellent academic achievements, and she will be invited to carry out a new research project of her choosing in collaboration with colleagues in Germany.
Dr Petit鈥檚 research interests lie in the textual transmission, translation and interpretation of ancient medical texts. This includes the many ways they have been appropriated up to modern times.
Her recent projects include 鈥楳edical Prognosis in Late Antiquity鈥� (Wellcome Trust University Award, 2013-2018) and 鈥楻ethinking Ancient Pharmacology' (British Academy - Leverhulme 2017-2019).
In 2019 she was awarded the prestigious M茅daille de Ch茅nier by the French Acad茅mie des Inscriptions et des Belles Lettres for her recent book on the Greek physician and philosopher Galen of Pergamum (Galien de Pergame ou la rh茅torique de la Providence. M茅decine, litt茅rature et pouvoir 脿 Rome, Brill 2018). This medal is a distinction awarded only to one scholar every five years in recognition of outstanding scholarship in ancient Greek.