Programme
Day One (6/10/2025)
09:00 - 09:30 Registration
09:30 - 09:45 Opening Address
09:45- 10:45 Keynote Speech by Prof. Lesley Dean Jones
10:45 - 11:15 Coffee Break
11:15 - 12:45 Session One: Inscriptions and Oracular Medicine
Polyxeni Strolonga, Coping with Infertility: The Delphic Oracles as early medical texts
Scott Calloway, Bodies of Text: Reading and Ritual Therapeutics at Epidauros
Orestis Lantzos, Therapeutic Mythology: The Use of Myth in Coping with Illness
12:45 - 14:15 Lunch (Catered)
14:15 - 15:15 Session Two: Hippocrates and the Hippocratic Tradition
Helen Ruger, Disorientation from the Self: Infertility, Identity, and the Limits of Language in Ancient Greek Medicine
Anna Gili, Narratives of Disease: Clinical Case Studies from Greek Sources to Medieval Arabic Medical Practice
15:15 - 15:45 Coffee Break
15:45 - 16:45 Panel Three: Plato and Hippocratic Medicine
Matilde Berti, Liver’s Physiology and ‘Inner’ Divination of ‘Phantasmata’ in Plato’s Timaeus
Elizaveta Sherbakova, Comedy, Soul Motion, and Early Psychotherapy in On Regimen
18:00 Tour of Valletta
19:30 End of Programme for Day One
Day Two (7/10/2025)
09:00 - 09:15 Registration
9:15- 10:15 Keynote Speech by Prof. Chiara Thumiger
10:15- 10:45 Coffee Break
10:45-11:45 Panel Four: Theatre, Art, and Healing
Christian Attard, When Art Heals: Sacred Image, Ritual, and Aesthetics as Medicine
Vassiliki Kampourelli, Greek tragedy and Narrative Medicine: Speech, empathy and compassion [ONLINE]
11:45- 12:15 Coffee Break
12:15 - 13:15 Panel Five: The Medical Voice and Medical Speech
Carlo Delle Donne, Speaking metaphors, (Or how ancient patients would represent their body and suffering)
Enrico Piergiacomi, The Voice that Heals. Antyllus and the Medical-Performative Tradition [ONLINE]
13:15 - 14:30 Lunch (Catered)
14:30 - 16:00 Panel Six: Healing and Suffering in Roman Literature
Marsha Mac-Coy, Cicero, the Death of Tullia, and Depression: Coping through Writing
Mina Petrova, Ovidian Purgatives: Words and ‘Medicamina’ for Evacuation of Elegiac Passiona
Anke Walter, Beyond Pain: Statius’ Thebaid and the Impossibility of Healing
16:00 - 16:15 Closing Remarks
19:00 Closing Dinner
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