Research Fields
- Classics
- History of Medicine
- History of Science and Ideas
- Digital Humanities
About
Lewis is a Senior Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at the Department of Classics and the Principal Investigator of the multidesciplinary project ATLOMY – “Anatomy in Ancient Greece and Rome: An Interactive Visual and Textual Atlas” funded by an ERC-Starting Grant. Her research focuses on anatomy, physiology and diagnostics in pre-modern societies. Dr. Lewis is intrigued by how people explored and interpreted nature, in particularly the living body, its structure and its workings. She finds the collaboration with modern medical experts and practitioners particularly stimulating and fruitful.
Selected Publications
Praxagoras of Cos on Arteries Pulse and Pneuma: Fragments and Interpretation (Leiden: Brill, 2017). https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004337435
“The Substance of De Spiritu”, Early Science and Medicine, 20.2 (2015), 101-124. (with Pavel Gregoric and Martin Kuhar) https://doi.org/10.1086/680674
“The Clinical Method of the Anonymus Parisinus”, in: P. Bouras-Vallianatos (ed.), Exploring Greek Manuscripts at The Wellcome Library (London: Routledge, 2020), 25–54. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429470035
Coughlin, S., Lewis, O., “What was Pneumatist about the Pneumatist School?”, in: S. Coughlin, D. Leith, O. Lewis (eds.), The Concept of Pneuma after Aristotle (Berlin: Edition Topoi, 2020), 203–236. https://edition-topoi.org/book/1597-the-concept-of-pneuma-after-aristotle/
“Galen against Archigenes on the Classification of Pulses”, in M. Havrda and R.J. Hankinson (eds.), Galen's Epistemology: Experience and Reasoning in Ancient Medicine, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming April 2022).
Selected Awards
2020 Alon Scholarship for the Integration of Outstanding Faculty
2019 Starting Grant of the European Research Committee (Horizon 2020, GA 852550)
2019 Young Historian Prize of the Académie Internationale d’Histoire de Sciences.
2018 Shlomo Pines Prize for outstanding young scholars
Teaching
2021-2022
Winter Semester
- Advanced Greek (Part A)
- Digital Research in the Humanities: from Idea to Output (in English)
Summer Semester
- Introduction to Classical Civilization: Rome
- Reading Roman Historians (Advanced Latin Prose)
2020-2021
Winter Semester
- Lysias: Readings in Easy Greek Prose
- Body and Soul in Ancient Greece and Rome
Summer Semester
- Thucydides: Readings in Advanced greek Prose
- Ancient Digital Science (in English)
At the Department of History:
Summer Semester 2018
Diagnostics and Therapeutics in Antiquity
Body, Soul and Ensouled Bodies: Pre-Modern Ideas of Body, Soul, Health and Illness in the Western World