Classical Studies

Orly Lewis

Dr. Orly Lewis

History Institute
Department of Classical Studies

Research Fields

  • Classics
  • History of Medicine
  • History of Science and Ideas
  • Digital Humanities

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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

Summer Semester 2017
Body, Soul and Ensouled Bodies: Pre-Modern Ideas of Body, Soul, Health and Illness in the Western World

 
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Amiel Vardi

Dr. Amiel Vardi

Department of Classical Studies
History Institute

Research Fields

  • Latin poetry
  • Intellectual life in Rome
  • The interplay between literature, philosophy, values, and social and political ideology

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Senior lecturer in Classics

 

Selected Publications

The Worlds of Aulus Gellius, eds. L. Holford-Strevens and A. Vardi (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004)

“Diiudicatio Locorum: Gellius and the History of a Mode in Ancient Comparative Criticism”, Classical Quarterly2 46 (1996), 492-514

“An Anthology of Early Latin Epigrams? A Ghost Reconsidered”, Classical Quarterly2 50 (2000), 147-158

 

Teaching

Bachelor's degree courses

Catuulus

Vergil's Ecl., Vergil's. Georgics, Vergil's Aeneid

Cicero, de Officiis, Cicero, de Oratore, Cic. de Amicitia, Cic. in Cat. I, Cicero, pro Archia, Cicero and Pliny, E

pistles

Roman Historians

Plautus, Menaechmi, Plautus, Catptivi

Terence, Adelphoe

Ovid, Met

Master's degree courses seminars

The Self in Seneca the younger and Pliny the youger

Horace, Odes; Horace satirre

Intellectua life at Rome

Love in Roman Elegy

The concept of Decline in Tacitus' dialogus de oratoribus

 

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