Notes on Contributors
Marke Ahonen is a University Lecturer in Greek language and literature at the University of Helsinki. She is the author of Mental Disorders in Ancient Philosophy (Springer 2014), and has translated several ancient Greek philosophical and medical works into her native Finnish.
Lesley Bolton is an Assistant Professor (Teaching) in the Department of Classics and Religion at the University of Calgary, Canada. Her research focuses on women’s medicine from Hippocrates onward, but especially the Gynaecia of Mustio, and the gynaecological works of the other physicians and authors of the North African school.
Jean-Christophe Courtil is Associate Professor in Latin Literature at the University of Toulouse and member of the Institut Universitaire de France (IUF). He is a specialist in the history of ideas in Roman Empire, particularly in the relations between philosophy and medicine. He is the author of several books and papers on medicine in stoicism (e.g. Sapientia contemptrix doloris. Le corps souffrant dans l’œuvre philosophique de Sénèque, Latomus, 2015). His latest works focus on dietetics, especially on sexual health in Latin medical texts. He is the author of several articles on sexual issues in Caelius’ work, in particular on the treatment of hypersexuality, or on therapeutic castration. He is about to complete a monograph on this subject entitled Venus in Medicina. Sexuality and Health in Latin Medical Texts from Celsus to Cassius Felix.
David Kaufman is Associate Professor of Classics and Philosophy and co-founder and co-director of the Medical Humanities program at Transylvania University in Lexington, KY. His research focuses on Greek and Roman philosophy and medicine. His recent publications include articles on Plato, Galen, Roman Epic, Stoicism, and Ancient Science and Race.
George Kazantzidis is Associate Professor of Latin Literature at the University of Patras, Greece. He is primarily interested in the history of emotions and the history of mental illness in Greek and Roman antiquity. His publications include a monograph on Lucretius (Lucretius on Disease: The Poetics of Morbidity in De rerum natura, De Gruyter, 2021) and a number of edited volumes, among which the most recent ones are: Horror in Classical Antiquity and Beyond: Body, Affect, Concepts (Bloomsbury, 2024, with Chiara Thumiger); Body and Machine in Classical Antiquity (CUP, 2023, with Maria Gerolemou); and Medical Understandings of Emotions in Classical Antiquity (De Gruyter, 2022, with Dimos Spatharas).
Nicolas Lamare is an associate professor in Roman history and archaeology at the Université de Picardie (Amiens, France). He is a trained archaeologist with specialisation in the ancient Maghreb, focusing on the Roman and Late Antique periods. He is an expert in architecture and hydraulics, and has published extensively on these subjects, with two books and several articles. He has participated in a number of fieldwork projects in Morocco, Tunisia, Italy and Turkey, and is currently directing an archaeological project at Sbeitla (ancient Sufetula) in Tunisia.
David Leith is Senior Lecturer in Classics at the University of Exeter. His research focuses on Graeco-Roman medicine in the Hellenistic and early Roman periods, and on the ancient Hippocratic tradition. 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.
Krystal Marlier is a doctoral candidate in Classical Studies at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität in Kiel. Her dissertation examines ancient perceptions of mental health in Caelius Aurelianus’ medical treatises De morbis acutis and De morbis chronicis, drawing on psychological approaches. Her research interests include ancient medicine and the history of psychiatry and psychology.
Philippe Mudry is Honorary Professor at the Institute of Archaeology and Antiquity Sciences and at the Faculty of Medicine and Biology, Institute of Humanities in Medicine (University of Lausanne). His field of research is Greek and Roman Medicine. His most recent publications include ‘Les gestes-barrières dans les épidémies antiques’ (in Peste, Pestis, Loimos. Les grands fléaux épidémiques, V. Bonet et al. (dir.), Presses universitaires de Provence, Université Aix-Marseille, 2025, pp. 119–130); his Une médecine métisse. Le cas de Rome is in preparation.
Pierre-Henri Ortiz is an assistant professor of Roman History at the University of Angers and a member of the TEMOS laboratory (Temps, Mondes, Sociétés—CNRS UMR 9016). He is the author of La psychiatrie à Rome. Comprendre et soigner la folie d’après Celse et Caelius Aurelianus (Belles Lettres, 2024) and Furor. Politiques de la folie à Rome (Belles Lettres, 2026).
Domenico Pellegrino is a Research Fellow in Classical Philology at the University of Messina. His research focuses primarily on Greek and Latin Medical and Scientific Literature (Galen; Methodism; Caelius Aurelianus), and on Greek-Latin translations of Galenic works made during the Middle Ages (Burgundio of Pisa; Niccolò of Reggio). His critical edition of the XIIth century translation from Greek into Latin of Galen’s De elementis secundum Hippocratem made by Burgundio of Pisa has been published recently (Fabrizio Serra, 2025).
Caroline Petit is Professor of Classics and the History of Medicine at the University of Warwick. She has published widely on ancient medicine, its textual transmission and reception, and on the interplay between the disciplines of medicine and rhetoric in antiquity. In 2019, she received the Médaille de Chénier of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres (France); in 2020, she was awarded the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Prize from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (Germany).
Susan Prince is an Associate Professor in the Department of Classics at the University of Cincinnati. Her main work has been on the Socratic tradition, especially Antisthenes and Diogenes of Sinope and their ancient reception. She has also published on Anonymus Londoniensis. She is working on a new assessment of the tradition of Diogenes of Sinope and a synthetic study of Stobaeus’ Anthology.
Gabriel Silva is an Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Lisbon. His research interests include Latin poetry (epic and elegy), ancient medicine, and the intersections between medical and non-medical texts. He is currently co-editing two volumes on ancient medicine: The Words of Medicine: Technical Terminology in Material and Textual Evidence from the Greco-Roman World (with Isabella Bonatti) for De Gruyter, and Pliny the Elder from the Roman Empire to the Renaissance: The Naturalis Historia and its Impact on Medicine (with Paolo Garofalo and Giorgio Ferri) for Palgrave Macmillan.
Chiara Thumiger focuses her research on ancient Greek and Roman thought and literature, the history of ancient medicine and the history of psychiatry, as well as on environmental and comparative approaches to anthropology of medicine and body history. She is the author of A History of the Mind and Mental Health in Classical Greek Medical Thought (Cambridge University Press, 2017), editor of Holism in Ancient Medicine and its Reception (Brill 2020) and author of Phrenitis and the Pathology of the Mind in Western Medical Thought (Fifth Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE) (Cambridge University Press, 2024).
Anna Maria Urso is full Professor of Classical Philology and History of Classical Theatre at the University of Messina (Italy). Her main research interests include the philological study and exegesis of ancient medical texts, their medieval and humanist transmission, and the reception of ancient theatre in European culture. Her recent publications include the critical edition with translation and commentary of Liber geneciae ad Soteris obsetrix (Santiago de Compostela 2018), I fluidi corporei nella medicina e nella veterinaria antiche: dottrina, lessico, testi. Atti del XII Convegno internazionale “Testi medici latini antichi” («Pallas» 113, 2020), coedited with D. Pellegrino, and Corpo (Rome 2023). To Caelius Aurelianus she has dedicated numerous works, including her first monograph, Dall’autore al traduttore: studi sulle Passiones celeres e tardae di Celio Aureliano (Messina 1997). She is currently preparing the critical edition with translation and commentary of Caelius’ Gynaecia for the «Corpus Medicorum Latinorum».
Manuel Enrique Vázquez Buján is Professor Emeritus of Latin Philology at the University of Santiago de Compostela. Scholarship holder of the Centre National des Œuvres Universitaires et Scolaires de Paris (1978–1980). Diplôme d’Études Approfondies in “Langues et Littératures Latines Postclassiques et Histoire Ancienne du Christianisme” (Université de Paris IV Sorbonne, 1979). Professor of Latin Philology at the University of Santiago de Compostela (1983–2022). Directeur d’Études Invité Étranger, École Pratique des Hautes Études—IVe Section. Sciences historiques et philologiques, Paris (1997). Professeur Invité, École Normale Supérieure, Paris (2006). Associé Correspondant Étranger of the Société Nationale des Antiquaires de France (1988–). He has published studies and editions of several Late Antique Latin translations of the Hippocratic Corpus in various journals and collective volumes.