International Conference “Medical Understandings of Emotions in Antiquity”
University of Patras, Department of Philology, Patras, Greece
December 8-10, 2017
Friday, December 8
Introduction
15:10-15:30
George Kazantzidis and Dimos Spatharas
Session I
15:30-17:15
Elizabeth Craik (St Andrews) “The Doctor’s Dilemma: Addressing Irrational Fear”
Jennifer Clarke Kosak (Bowdoin College) “Fear, Shame, and Concealment in the Hippocratic Corpus”
Chiara Thumiger (Warwick) “Shame and Shamefulness in Ancient Medicine”
Session II
17:35-18:45
Maria Michela Sassi (Pisa) “Thematizing Emotions: Between Philosophy and Medicine”
Spyridon Rangos (Patras) “Wonder and Perplexity across Medicine and Philosophy in Classical Greece”
Saturday, December 9
Session III
10:00-11:45
Teun Tieleman (Utrecht) “The Stoic Philosopher Posidonius and Greco-Roman Medical Tradition”
Fabio Stok (Rome – Tor Vergata) “Emotions, Soul, and Body in the Medicine of Cornelius Celsus”
George Kazantzidis (Patras), “Hippocratic Emotions and Distributed Cognition”
Session IV
15:00-16.10
Amber Porter (Calgary) “‘The Great Misfortune of the Physician’: Empathy and Compassion in the Writings of Aretaeus of Cappadocia”
Susan Mattern (Georgia) “The Atlas Patient: Fear and Psychosis in Galen and Ancient Greek Medicine”
Sunday, December 10
Session V
10:00-11:45
Peter Singer (Birkbeck) “What is a Pathos? Where Medicine Meets Philosophy”
David Kaufman (Univ. of Transylvania) “Galen on the Apatheia/Metriopatheia Debate”
Julia Trompeter (Utrecht) “Moderation cum Eradication: Emotions in Galen’s Moral Psychology”
Session VI
12:15-13:25
Maria Vamvouri-Ruffy (Université de Lausanne) “Emotions as Symptoms of Vices and Diseases in Plutarch’s Lives”
Dimos Spatharas (U. of Crete) “Conceptualizing Emotions through Disease Metaphors”
Conclusions
13:25-13:50