![Laurence Totelin](https://profiles-cardiff.imgix.net/attachments/2113?w=200&h=200&auto=format&crop=faces&fit=crop&q=90")
Dr Laurence Totelin
Athro Hanes yr Henfyd, Dirprwy Bennaeth Hanes a Chrefydd yr Henfyd
Ysgol Hanes, Archaeoleg a Chrefydd
- TotelinLM@caerdydd.ac.uk
- +44 29208 75631
- Adeilad John Percival , Ystafell 4.03, Rhodfa Colum, Caerdydd, CF10 3EU
- Sylwebydd y cyfryngau
- Ar gael fel goruchwyliwr ôl-raddedig
Trosolwyg
I am a historian of Greek and Roman Science, Technology and Medicine. I focus on the history of pharmacology and botany. My work is influenced by gender theory, and I have a particular interest in gynaecological treatments, aphrodisiacs, and the properties of milk (especially breast-milk).
I have a background in Classics/Ancient History (BA); History and Philosophy of Science (MPhil); and History of Medicine (PhD). I have published both on the history of ancient pharmacology (in particular on gynaecological pharmacology) and the history of botany. I am currently interested in the ancient history of milk, with a focus on its symbolism in ancient cultures. My approach to research is cross-disciplinary and I enjoy collaborating with people from various disciplines. I am an experienced blogger, writing posts for the Recipes Project, my own blog Concocting History, and guest posts on other blogs. I was involved in the design of the FutureLearn MOOC Health and Wellbeing in the Ancient World.
Cyhoeddiad
2024
- Totelin, L. 2024. Review of John G. Fitch, On Simples, attributed to Dioscorides. Studies in ancient medicine, 57. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2022. Bryn Mawr Classical Review
2023
- Totelin, L. 2023. Orchids, lizards, and lettuce: aphrodisiacs and technosomata. In: Gerolemou, M. and Chesi, G. M. eds. Body Technologies in the Greco-Roman World: Technosôma, Gender and Sex. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, pp. 221-239.
- Totelin, L. 2023. Weaning and lactation cessation in late antiquity and the early byzantine period. In: Constantinou, S. and Skouroumouni-Stavrinou, A. eds. Breastfeeding and mothering in antiquity and early Byzantium. London: Routledge, pp. 130-151., (10.4324/9781003265658-7)
- Totelin, L. 2023. Waxing lyrical: Ancient medical authors on wax and wax tablets. Deltos 33, pp. 13-18.
- Totelin, L. 2023. Before “breast is best”. Argo, A Hellenic Review 19, pp. 18-19.
- Totelin, L. and Rieder, P. 2023. Purger, fortifier: remèdes lactés (d’Hippocrate à Pasteur). In: Foehr-Janssens, Y. and Solfaroli Camillocci, D. eds. Allaiter: De l’Antiquité à nos jours. Histoire pratiques d'une culture en Europe. Brepols, pp. 669-677.
2022
- Totelin, L. 2022. [Book Review] (D.) Lavalle Norman and (A.) Petkas (eds) Hypatia of Alexandria. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2020.. The Journal of Hellenic Studies 142, pp. 460-461. (10.1017/S0075426922001057)
- Totelin, L. 2022. The body in antiquity. - (F.) Gherchanoc, (S.) Wyler (edd.) Corps en morceaux. Démembrer et recomposer les corps dans l'Antiquité classique. [Book review]. Classical Review 72(2), pp. 569-572. (10.1017/S0009840X22000439)
- Totelin, L. 2022. Aelian’s fabulous trees. In: De Brasi, D. and Fronterotta, F. eds. Poikile Physis: Biological Literature in Greek during the Roman Empire: Genres, Scopes, and Problems. Science, Technology, and Medicine in Ancient Cultures De Gruyter, pp. 115-128., (10.1515/9783110796858)
- Totelin, L. 2022. Paula S. De Vos, Compound remedies: Galenic pharmacy from the Ancient Mediterranean to New Spain [Book Review]. Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 77(3), pp. 372-374. (10.1093/jhmas/jrac019)
- Totelin, L. and King, H. 2022. Body. In: Whitmarsh, T. ed. Oxford Classical Dictionary Online. Oxford University Press, (10.1093/acrefore/9780199381135.013.1120)
- Totelin, L. 2022. Trade and exploration. In: Giesecke, A. and Mabberley, D. eds. A Cultural History of Plants in Antiquity., Vol. 1. A Cultural History of Plants London: Bloomsbury, pp. 67-83.
2021
- Totelin, L. 2021. Hippocratic corpus. In: Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Oxford Classical Dictionary. Oxford: Oxford University Press, (10.1093/acrefore/9780199381135.013.8525)
- Bradley, M., Leonard, V. and Totelin, L. eds. 2021. Bodily fluids in antiquity. London: Routledge.
- Bradley, M., Leonard, V. and Totelin, L. 2021. Introduction. In: Bradley, M., Leonard, V. and Totelin, L. eds. Bodily Fluids in Antiquity. London: Routledge, pp. 1-14.
- Totelin, L. 2021. Breastmilk in the cave and on the arena: early Christian stories of lactation in context. In: Bradley, M., Leonard, V. and Totelin, L. eds. Bodily Fluids in Antiquity. Routledge, pp. 240-255.
- Totelin, L. ed. 2021. A cultural history of medicine in antiquity. The Cultural Histories Series. London: Bloomsbury.
- Totelin, L. 2021. Easy remedies – difficult texts: the Pseudo-Galenic Euporista. In: Petit, C., Swain, S. and Fischer, K. eds. PseudoGalenica: The Formation of the Galenic Corpus from Antiquity to the Renaissance. London: The Warburg Institute, pp. 31-45.
2020
- Totelin, L. M. V. 2020. A woman in flux: fluidity in Hippocratic gynaecology. In: Thumiger, C. ed. Holism in ancient medicine and its reception. Leiden: Brill, pp. 220-236., (10.1163/9789004443143_011)
- Totelin, L. 2020. Do no harm: Phanostrate's midwifery practice. Technai, An International Journal for Ancient Science and Technology 11, pp. 129-143. (10.19272/202010501010)
- Totelin, L. 2020. A little old lady told me: appropriation of weak actors' knowledge in Graeco-Roman pharmacology. In: Epple, M., Imhausen, A. and Muller, F. eds. Weak Knowledge: Forms, Functions, and Dynamics. Campus Verlag, pp. 109-124.
- Totelin, L. and Flemming, R. eds. 2020. Medicine and markets in the Graeco-Roman world and beyond: Essays in honour of Vivian Nutton. Classical Press of Wales.
- Totelin, L. 2020. Healing correspondence: letters and remedy exchange in the Graeco-Roman world. In: Totelin, L. and Flemming, R. eds. Medicine and Markets in the Graeco-Roman World and Beyond: Essays in Honour of Vivian Nutton. Classical Press of Wales, pp. 17-36.
- Totelin, L. M. V. 2020. What's a plant?. In: Taub, L. ed. The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek and Roman Science. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 141-159., (10.1017/9781316136096.008)
- Totelin, L. M. V. and Nutton, V. eds. 2020. Ancient medicine, behind and beyond Hippocrates: essays in honour of Elizabeth Craik. Pisa: Fabrizio Serra.
2019
- Totelin, L. M. V. 2019. Review of the pharmakon: concept figure, image of transgression, poetic practice ed. by Hermann Herlinghaus. Bulletin of the History of Medicine 93(3), pp. 453-454. (10.1353/bhm.2019.0061)
- Totelin, L. 2019. The map of knowledge: how classical ideas were lost and found: a history in seven cities, by Violet Moller [Book Review]. BBC History Magazine, pp. 73.
- Totelin, L. 2019. A sea of synonyms: naming plants in ancient pharmacological texts. In: Reggiani, N. and Bertonazzi, F. eds. Parlare la medicina: fra lingue e culture, nello spazio e nel tempo. Atti del Convegno Internazionale, Universita di Parma, 5-7 Settembre 2016. Le Monnier Universita, pp. 195-206.
- Totelin, L. 2019. Hystérie. In: Bodiou, L. and Mehl, V. eds. Dictionnaire du corps dans l'Antiquité. Presses universitaires de Rennes, pp. 326-327.
- Totelin, L. 2019. Puberté. In: Bodiou, L. and Mehl, V. eds. Dictionnaire du corps dans l'Antiquité. Presses universitaires de Rennes, pp. 529-531.
- Totelin, L. 2019. Utérus. In: Bodiou, L. and Mehl, V. eds. Dictionnaire du corps dans l'Antiquité. Presses universitaires de Rennes, pp. 635-636.
- Totelin, L. 2019. Gynécologie. In: Bodiou, L. and Mehl, V. eds. Dictionnaire du corps dans l'Antiquité. Presses universitaires de Rennes, pp. 296-298.
- Totelin, L. 2019. Sweet honey and hare's brains: Ancient pharmacology for children's diseases. In: Lambrugo, C. ed. Una favola breve: Archeologia e antropologia per la storia del''infanzia. Edizioni All'Insegna del Giglio, pp. 37-42.
2018
- Totelin, L. 2018. Botany. In: Jones, A. and Taub, L. eds. The Cambridge history of science. Volume 1. Ancient Science. Cambridge University Press, pp. 238-247.
- Totelin, L. 2018. Animal and plant generation in classical antiquity. In: Hopwood, N., Flemming, R. and Kassell, L. eds. Reproduction: Antiquity to the Present. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 53-66.
- Totelin, L. 2018. Therapeutics. In: Pormann, P. E. ed. The Cambirdge Companion to Hippocrates. Cambridge Companions to Philosophy Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 200-216.
- Totelin, L. 2018. Review of A. Ferraces Rodriguez, Curae quae ex hominibus atque animalibus fiunt. Estudio y edición crítica. L’Antiquité Classique 87, article number: 396.
- Totelin, L. 2018. Gone with the wind: laughter and the audience of the Hippocratic treatises. In: Bouras-Vallianatos, P. and Xenophontos, S. eds. Greek medical literature and its readers: From Hippocrates to Islam and Byzantium. Routledge, pp. 30-47.
- Totelin, L. M. V. 2018. Tastes in ancient botany, medicine and science. In: Rudolph, K. C. ed. Taste and the Ancient Senses. London: Routledge, pp. 60-71.
- Totelin, L. 2018. Recréer les recettes de Galien. In: Verbanck-Pirard, A., Boudon-Millot, V. and Gourevitch, D. eds. Au temps de Galien: Un médecin grec dans l'empire Romain. Musée Royal de Mariemont, pp. 214-217.
2017
- Totelin, L. 2017. The third way. In: Lemhaus, L. and Martelli, M. eds. Collecting Recipes: Byzantine and Jewish Pharmacology in Dialogue. Science, Technology, and Medicine in Ancient Cultures Boston and Berlin: De Gruyter, pp. 103-122., (10.1515/9781501502538)
- Totelin, L. 2017. From technē to kakotechnia: use and abuse of ancient cosmetic texts. In: Formisano, M. and van der Eijk, P. eds. Knowledge, Text and Practice in Ancient Technical Writing. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 138-162., (10.1017/9781316718575.008)
- Totelin, L. M. V. 2017. Milk: the symbolism & ambivalence of a substance. Viewpoint: the Magazine of the British Society for the History of Science 112, pp. 6-7.
- Totelin, L. M. V. 2017. Whose fault is it anyway? Plant infertility in antiquity. In: Davies, G. and Loughran, T. eds. The Palgrave Handbook of Infertility in History: Approaches, Contexts and Perspectives. Basingstoke: Palgrave, pp. 57-75.
- Trickey, H., Totelin, L. M. V. and Sanders, J. 2017. Nain, Mam and Me: Historical artefacts as prompts for reminiscence, reflection and conversation about feeding babies. A qualitative development study. Research for All 1(1), pp. 64-83. (10.18546/RFA.01.1.06)
- Totelin, L. M. V. 2017. Snakes and ladders: wonder cures of the ancient world. BBC History Magazine Collec, pp. 22-25.
- Totelin, L. M. V. 2017. Call the (Roman) midwife. BBC History Magazine Collec, pp. 40-43.
- Totelin, L. M. V. 2017. Technology in the ancient world. BBC History Magazine: The story of science & technology., pp. 16-19.
- Totelin, L. 2017. Motherhood in flux: Greek nymphs, breastfeeding, and ancient gynaecology. In: Guignard, F. P., Pedrucci, G. and Scapini, M. eds. Maternita e politeismi. Motherhood(s) and polytheisms. Patron Editore, pp. 359-370.
2016
- Totelin, L. 2016. Pharmakopolai: a re-evaluation of the sources. In: Harris, W. V. ed. Popular Medicine in Graeco-Roman Antiquity: Explorations. Columbia Studies in the Classical Tradition Brill, pp. 65-85., (10.1163/9789004326040_003)
- Totelin, L. M. V. 2016. Ido Israelowich. Patients and healers in the High Roman Empire [Book Review]. Isis 107(3), pp. 620-621. (10.1086/688242)
- Totelin, L. M. V. 2016. Breastfeeding. In: Bagnall, R. S. et al. eds. The Encyclopedia of Ancient History. Wiley, pp. 1-2., (10.1002/9781444338386.wbeah30237)
- Totelin, L. M. V. 2016. Technologies of knowledge: pharmacology, botany, and medical recipes. Oxford Handbooks Online (10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199935390.013.94)
- Totelin, L. M. V. 2016. L’Expressivité du lexique médical en Grèce et à Rome: Hommages à Françoise Skoda ed. by Isabelle Boehm and Nathalie Rousseau [Book Review]. Bulletin of the History of Medicine 90(1), pp. 141-142.
- Totelin, L. M. V. 2016. Hippocratic and Aristophanic recipes: a comparative study. In: Dean-Jones, L. and Rosen, R. eds. Ancient Concepts of the Hippocratic. Papers presented at the XIIIth Hippocrates Colloquium, Austin, Texas, 11-13 August, 2008. Leiden: Brill, pp. 292-301.
- Totelin, L. M. V. 2016. The world in a pill: local specialties and global remedies in the Graeco-Roman world. In: Futo Kennedy, R. and Jones-Lewis, M. eds. The Routledge Handbook of Identity and the Environment in the Classical and Medieval World. London and New York: Routledge, pp. 151-170.
- Trickey, H., Totelin, L. M. V. and Sanders, J. 2016. Mamgu, mam and me: feeding babies in Wales - now and then. Exhibition for the general public at Cardiff Story Museum. [Exhibition]. Cardiff Story Musuem, 5-6 November 2016.
- Totelin, L. M. V. 2016. Homo Patiens, Approaches to the patient in the Ancient World, edited by Georgia Petridou and Chiara Thumiger [Book Review]. Early Science and Medicine 21(6), pp. 575-577. (10.1163/15733823-00216p05)
2015
- Totelin, L. M. V. 2015. Stephen M. Oberhelman (ed.), Dreams, healing and medicine in Greece: from antiquity to the present [Book Review]. Social History of Medicine 28(4), pp. 930-931. (10.1093/shm/hkv080)
- Trickey, H., Totelin, L. M. V. and Sanders, J. 2015. Nain and Mam and me: Historical artefacts, social history and opening the conversation about infant feeding in Wales. [Blog]. Fferm Mathrafal, Meifod, Wales, 1-8 August 2015.
- Hardy, G. and Totelin, L. 2015. Ancient botany. Science of Antiquity. Abingdon and New York: Routledge. (10.4324/9780203458358)
- Totelin, L. M. V. 2015. When foods become remedies in ancient Greece: the curious case of garlic and other substances. Journal of Ethnopharmacology 167, pp. 30-37. (10.1016/j.jep.2014.08.018)
- Totelin, L. M. V. 2015. L'odeur des autres: femme et odeur - l'intersection de la pratique Hippocratique et de la pratique religieuse. In: Jouanna, J. and Zinc, M. eds. Hippocrate et les hippocratismes : médecine, religion, société. Academies des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres, pp. 83-98.
- Trickey, H., Sanders, J. and Totelin, L. M. V. 2015. Nain and Mam and Me: historical artefacts, social history and opening the conversation about infant feeding in Wales. NCT Perspective 29, pp. 33-34.
- Totelin, L. M. V. 2015. Ancient breast milk for modern debates. Breastfeeding matters: La Leche League GB mother-to-mother support for breastfeeding(209), pp. 12-15.
2014
- Totelin, L. M. V. 2014. Smell as sign and cure in ancient medicine. In: Bradley, M. ed. Smell and the Ancient Senses. The Senses in Antiquity London: Routledge, pp. 17-29.
- Totelin, L. M. V. 2014. Sweet as honey. [Online]. The Recipes Project. Available at: http://recipes.hypotheses.org/4099
- Totelin, L. M. V. 2014. Review: Anne Van Arsdall and Timothy Graham (eds), herbs and healers from the ancient Mediterranean through the medieval West: essays in honor of John M. Riddle. Social History of Medicine 27(1), pp. 165-166. (10.1093/shm/hkt078)
- Baker, P., King, H. and Totelin, L. M. V. 2014. Teaching ancient medicine: the issues of abortion. In: Rabinowitz, N. S. and McHardy, F. eds. From Abortion to Pederasty: Addressing Difficult Topics in the Classics Classroom. Columbus, Ohio: The Ohio State University Press, pp. 71-91.
- Totelin, L. M. V. 2014. J. Jouanna, Greek medicine from Hippocrates to Galen [Book Review]. Isis 105(1), pp. 206-206. (10.1086/676764)
- Totelin, L. M. V. 2014. Suzanne Amigues, Théophraste. Les causes des phénomènes végétaux. Tome I. Livres I et II [Book Review]. Aestimatio 11, pp. 168-170.
2013
- Totelin, L. M. V. 2013. Richard A. Gabriel, Man and wound in the Ancient World: A history of miltary medicine from Sumer to the Fall of Constantinople [Book Review]. Isis 104(1), pp. 153-154. (10.1086/670872)
- Muir, S. and Totelin, L. M. V. 2013. Medicine & disease. In: Tulloch, J. H. ed. A Cultural History of Women in Antiquity., Vol. 1. Oxford: Berg, pp. 81-104.
2012
- Totelin, L. M. V. 2012. And to end on a poetic note: Galen’s authorial strategies in the pharmacological books. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 43(2), pp. 307-315. (10.1016/j.shpsa.2011.12.019)
- Totelin, L. M. V. 2012. Botanizing rulers and their herbal subjects: Plants and political power in Greek and Roman literature. Phoenix LXVI(1-2), pp. 122-144.
- Totelin, L. M. V. 2012. Carian medicine (C.) nissen entre Asclépios et Hippocrate. étude des cultes guérisseurs et des médecins en Carie.(Kernos supplément 22.) pp. 397, ills, maps. liège: centre international d'étude de la religion Grecque antique, 2009. paper €40. ISBN: 978-2-9600717-5-7 [Review]. The Classical Review 62(1), pp. 61-62. (10.1017/S0009840X11002903)
2011
- Totelin, L. M. V. 2011. B. Holmes, The symptom and the subject: the emergence of the physical body in Ancient Greece [Book Review]. Isis 102(3), pp. 551-552. (10.1086/663030)
- Totelin, L. M. V. 2011. Old recipes, new practice? The Latin adaptations of the Hippocratic 'Gynaecological Treatises'. Social History of Medicine 24(1), pp. 74-91. (10.1093/shm/hkq103)
- Totelin, L. M. V. 2011. J. Scarborough, Pharmacy and Drug Lore in Antiquity: Greece, Rome, Byzantium [Book Review]. Aestimatio 8, pp. 116-120.
2010
- Totelin, L. M. V. 2010. C. Gill, T. Whitmarsh and J. Wilkins (eds.), Galen and the World of Knowledge [Book Review]. British Journal of the History of Science 43(3), pp. 478-479. (10.1017/S0007087410001032)
- Totelin, L. M. V. 2010. A recipe for a headache: translating and interpreting ancient Greek and Roman remedies. In: Imhausen, A. and Pommerening, T. eds. Writings of Early Scholars in the Ancient Near East, Egypt and Greece: Zur Übersetzbarkeit von Wissenschaftssprachen des Altertums. Beiträge zur Altertumskunde Vol. 286. Berlin: De Gruyter, pp. 219-237.
- Totelin, L. M. V. 2010. Bronwen L Wickkiser, Asklepios, medicine, and the politics of healing in fifth-century Greece: between craft and cult, Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008, pp xiii, 178, £29.00, $55.00 (hardback 987-0-8018-8978-3) [Review]. Medical History 54(2), pp. 271-272.
- Totelin, L. M. V. 2010. Thomas Rütten, Geschichten vom Hippokratischen Eid, Wiesbaden, Harrassowitz, 2008, CD-ROM €20.00 (978-3-447-05679-3) [Review]. Medical History 54(1), pp. 135-136. (10.1017/S0025727300004518)
- Totelin, L. M. V. 2010. A. Mayor, The Poison King: The Life and Legend of Mithradates Rome's Deadliest Enemy [Book Review]. Isis 101(3), pp. 639-639. (10.1086/657189)
- Totelin, L. M. V. 2010. Teaching the hippocratic gynaecological recipes?. In: Horstmanshoff, M. and Tilburg, C. R. v. eds. Hippocrates and Medical Education: Selected Papers Presented at the XIIth International Hippocrates Colloquium, Universiteit Leiden, 24-26 August 2005. Studies in Ancient Medicine Vol. 35. Leiden: Brill, pp. 287-300.
2009
- Totelin, L. M. V. 2009. Galen's use of multiple manuscript copies in his pharmacological treatises. In: Doody, A. and Taub, L. eds. Authorial Choice, Authorial Voice: Greco-Roman Scientific and Medical Writing.. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, pp. 81-92.
- Totelin, L. M. V. 2009. Hippocratic recipes: Oral and written transmission of pharmacological knowledge in fifth- and fourth-century Greece. Studies in Ancient Medicine Vol. 34. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers.
- Totelin, L. M. V. 2009. Hospitals and Healing from antiquity to the later middle ages [Review]. Social History of Medicine 22(1), pp. 195-197.
- Totelin, L. M. V. 2009. Birth and reproduction. In: Gargarin, M. ed. Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome. Oxford: Oxford University Press
- Totelin, L. M. V. 2009. Gynecology. In: Gargarin, M. ed. The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome. Oxford: Oxford University Press
2008
- Totelin, L. M. V. 2008. Parfums et huiles parfumées en médecine. In: Verbanck-Piérard, A., Massar, N. and Frère, D. eds. Parfums de l'Antiquité: La rose et l'encens en Méditerranée. Morlanwelz-Mariemont: Musée Royal de Mariemont, pp. 227-232.
2007
- Totelin, L. M. V. 2007. (R.) Mayhew The female in Aristotle's Biology: reason or rationalization. Pp. xii+ 136. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2004 [Book Review]. The Classical Review 57(1), pp. 49-50. (10.1017/S0009840X06003118)
- Totelin, L. M. V. 2007. Sex and vegetables in the Hippocratic gynaecological treatises. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 38(3), pp. 531-540. (10.1016/j.shpsc.2007.06.001)
- Totelin, L. M. V. 2007. Hippokratic Corpus, nosological works. In: Keyser, P. T. and Irby-Massie, G. L. eds. The Encyclopaedia of Ancient Natural Scientists: the Greek Tradition and its many Heirs. London: Routledge, pp. 413-414.
- Totelin, L. M. V. 2007. Perfume. In: Cancik, H. et al. eds. Brill's New Pauly: Encyclopaedia of the Ancient World. Leiden ; Boston: Brill, pp. 753-754.
2006
- Totelin, L. M. V. 2006. S. Amigues, Theophraste. Recherches sur les Plantes. Tome V. [Book Review]. Bryn Mawr Classical Review, article number: 2006.07.24.
- Totelin, L. M. V. 2006. Philip J van der Eijk (ed.), Hippocrates in context: papers read at the XIth international Hippocrates colloquium, University of Newcastle upon Tyne 27–31 August 2002, studies in ancient medicine, vol. 31, Leiden and Boston, Brill, 2005, pp xvi, 521, €149.00, US$199.00(hardback 90-04-14430-7) [Review]. Medical History 50(4), pp. 552-553. (10.1017/S0025727300010474)
2004
- Totelin, L. M. V. 2004. Review: Maria Michela Sassi, The science of man in Ancient Greece. Translated by Paul Tucker. With a Foreword by Sir Geoffrey Lloyd. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2001 [Book Review]. The British Journal for the History of Science 37(4), pp. 467-468.
- Totelin, L. M. V. 2004. Mithradates’ antidote: A pharmacological ghost. Early Science and Medicine 9(1), pp. 1-19. (10.1163/1573382041153179)
Articles
- Totelin, L. 2024. Review of John G. Fitch, On Simples, attributed to Dioscorides. Studies in ancient medicine, 57. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2022. Bryn Mawr Classical Review
- Totelin, L. 2023. Waxing lyrical: Ancient medical authors on wax and wax tablets. Deltos 33, pp. 13-18.
- Totelin, L. 2023. Before “breast is best”. Argo, A Hellenic Review 19, pp. 18-19.
- Totelin, L. 2022. [Book Review] (D.) Lavalle Norman and (A.) Petkas (eds) Hypatia of Alexandria. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2020.. The Journal of Hellenic Studies 142, pp. 460-461. (10.1017/S0075426922001057)
- Totelin, L. 2022. The body in antiquity. - (F.) Gherchanoc, (S.) Wyler (edd.) Corps en morceaux. Démembrer et recomposer les corps dans l'Antiquité classique. [Book review]. Classical Review 72(2), pp. 569-572. (10.1017/S0009840X22000439)
- Totelin, L. 2022. Paula S. De Vos, Compound remedies: Galenic pharmacy from the Ancient Mediterranean to New Spain [Book Review]. Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 77(3), pp. 372-374. (10.1093/jhmas/jrac019)
- Totelin, L. 2020. Do no harm: Phanostrate's midwifery practice. Technai, An International Journal for Ancient Science and Technology 11, pp. 129-143. (10.19272/202010501010)
- Totelin, L. M. V. 2019. Review of the pharmakon: concept figure, image of transgression, poetic practice ed. by Hermann Herlinghaus. Bulletin of the History of Medicine 93(3), pp. 453-454. (10.1353/bhm.2019.0061)
- Totelin, L. 2019. The map of knowledge: how classical ideas were lost and found: a history in seven cities, by Violet Moller [Book Review]. BBC History Magazine, pp. 73.
- Totelin, L. 2018. Review of A. Ferraces Rodriguez, Curae quae ex hominibus atque animalibus fiunt. Estudio y edición crítica. L’Antiquité Classique 87, article number: 396.
- Totelin, L. M. V. 2017. Milk: the symbolism & ambivalence of a substance. Viewpoint: the Magazine of the British Society for the History of Science 112, pp. 6-7.
- Trickey, H., Totelin, L. M. V. and Sanders, J. 2017. Nain, Mam and Me: Historical artefacts as prompts for reminiscence, reflection and conversation about feeding babies. A qualitative development study. Research for All 1(1), pp. 64-83. (10.18546/RFA.01.1.06)
- Totelin, L. M. V. 2017. Snakes and ladders: wonder cures of the ancient world. BBC History Magazine Collec, pp. 22-25.
- Totelin, L. M. V. 2017. Call the (Roman) midwife. BBC History Magazine Collec, pp. 40-43.
- Totelin, L. M. V. 2017. Technology in the ancient world. BBC History Magazine: The story of science & technology., pp. 16-19.
- Totelin, L. M. V. 2016. Ido Israelowich. Patients and healers in the High Roman Empire [Book Review]. Isis 107(3), pp. 620-621. (10.1086/688242)
- Totelin, L. M. V. 2016. Technologies of knowledge: pharmacology, botany, and medical recipes. Oxford Handbooks Online (10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199935390.013.94)
- Totelin, L. M. V. 2016. L’Expressivité du lexique médical en Grèce et à Rome: Hommages à Françoise Skoda ed. by Isabelle Boehm and Nathalie Rousseau [Book Review]. Bulletin of the History of Medicine 90(1), pp. 141-142.
- Totelin, L. M. V. 2016. Homo Patiens, Approaches to the patient in the Ancient World, edited by Georgia Petridou and Chiara Thumiger [Book Review]. Early Science and Medicine 21(6), pp. 575-577. (10.1163/15733823-00216p05)
- Totelin, L. M. V. 2015. Stephen M. Oberhelman (ed.), Dreams, healing and medicine in Greece: from antiquity to the present [Book Review]. Social History of Medicine 28(4), pp. 930-931. (10.1093/shm/hkv080)
- Totelin, L. M. V. 2015. When foods become remedies in ancient Greece: the curious case of garlic and other substances. Journal of Ethnopharmacology 167, pp. 30-37. (10.1016/j.jep.2014.08.018)
- Trickey, H., Sanders, J. and Totelin, L. M. V. 2015. Nain and Mam and Me: historical artefacts, social history and opening the conversation about infant feeding in Wales. NCT Perspective 29, pp. 33-34.
- Totelin, L. M. V. 2015. Ancient breast milk for modern debates. Breastfeeding matters: La Leche League GB mother-to-mother support for breastfeeding(209), pp. 12-15.
- Totelin, L. M. V. 2014. Review: Anne Van Arsdall and Timothy Graham (eds), herbs and healers from the ancient Mediterranean through the medieval West: essays in honor of John M. Riddle. Social History of Medicine 27(1), pp. 165-166. (10.1093/shm/hkt078)
- Totelin, L. M. V. 2014. J. Jouanna, Greek medicine from Hippocrates to Galen [Book Review]. Isis 105(1), pp. 206-206. (10.1086/676764)
- Totelin, L. M. V. 2014. Suzanne Amigues, Théophraste. Les causes des phénomènes végétaux. Tome I. Livres I et II [Book Review]. Aestimatio 11, pp. 168-170.
- Totelin, L. M. V. 2013. Richard A. Gabriel, Man and wound in the Ancient World: A history of miltary medicine from Sumer to the Fall of Constantinople [Book Review]. Isis 104(1), pp. 153-154. (10.1086/670872)
- Totelin, L. M. V. 2012. And to end on a poetic note: Galen’s authorial strategies in the pharmacological books. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 43(2), pp. 307-315. (10.1016/j.shpsa.2011.12.019)
- Totelin, L. M. V. 2012. Botanizing rulers and their herbal subjects: Plants and political power in Greek and Roman literature. Phoenix LXVI(1-2), pp. 122-144.
- Totelin, L. M. V. 2012. Carian medicine (C.) nissen entre Asclépios et Hippocrate. étude des cultes guérisseurs et des médecins en Carie.(Kernos supplément 22.) pp. 397, ills, maps. liège: centre international d'étude de la religion Grecque antique, 2009. paper €40. ISBN: 978-2-9600717-5-7 [Review]. The Classical Review 62(1), pp. 61-62. (10.1017/S0009840X11002903)
- Totelin, L. M. V. 2011. B. Holmes, The symptom and the subject: the emergence of the physical body in Ancient Greece [Book Review]. Isis 102(3), pp. 551-552. (10.1086/663030)
- Totelin, L. M. V. 2011. Old recipes, new practice? The Latin adaptations of the Hippocratic 'Gynaecological Treatises'. Social History of Medicine 24(1), pp. 74-91. (10.1093/shm/hkq103)
- Totelin, L. M. V. 2011. J. Scarborough, Pharmacy and Drug Lore in Antiquity: Greece, Rome, Byzantium [Book Review]. Aestimatio 8, pp. 116-120.
- Totelin, L. M. V. 2010. C. Gill, T. Whitmarsh and J. Wilkins (eds.), Galen and the World of Knowledge [Book Review]. British Journal of the History of Science 43(3), pp. 478-479. (10.1017/S0007087410001032)
- Totelin, L. M. V. 2010. Bronwen L Wickkiser, Asklepios, medicine, and the politics of healing in fifth-century Greece: between craft and cult, Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008, pp xiii, 178, £29.00, $55.00 (hardback 987-0-8018-8978-3) [Review]. Medical History 54(2), pp. 271-272.
- Totelin, L. M. V. 2010. Thomas Rütten, Geschichten vom Hippokratischen Eid, Wiesbaden, Harrassowitz, 2008, CD-ROM €20.00 (978-3-447-05679-3) [Review]. Medical History 54(1), pp. 135-136. (10.1017/S0025727300004518)
- Totelin, L. M. V. 2010. A. Mayor, The Poison King: The Life and Legend of Mithradates Rome's Deadliest Enemy [Book Review]. Isis 101(3), pp. 639-639. (10.1086/657189)
- Totelin, L. M. V. 2009. Hospitals and Healing from antiquity to the later middle ages [Review]. Social History of Medicine 22(1), pp. 195-197.
- Totelin, L. M. V. 2007. (R.) Mayhew The female in Aristotle's Biology: reason or rationalization. Pp. xii+ 136. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2004 [Book Review]. The Classical Review 57(1), pp. 49-50. (10.1017/S0009840X06003118)
- Totelin, L. M. V. 2007. Sex and vegetables in the Hippocratic gynaecological treatises. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 38(3), pp. 531-540. (10.1016/j.shpsc.2007.06.001)
- Totelin, L. M. V. 2006. S. Amigues, Theophraste. Recherches sur les Plantes. Tome V. [Book Review]. Bryn Mawr Classical Review, article number: 2006.07.24.
- Totelin, L. M. V. 2006. Philip J van der Eijk (ed.), Hippocrates in context: papers read at the XIth international Hippocrates colloquium, University of Newcastle upon Tyne 27–31 August 2002, studies in ancient medicine, vol. 31, Leiden and Boston, Brill, 2005, pp xvi, 521, €149.00, US$199.00(hardback 90-04-14430-7) [Review]. Medical History 50(4), pp. 552-553. (10.1017/S0025727300010474)
- Totelin, L. M. V. 2004. Review: Maria Michela Sassi, The science of man in Ancient Greece. Translated by Paul Tucker. With a Foreword by Sir Geoffrey Lloyd. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2001 [Book Review]. The British Journal for the History of Science 37(4), pp. 467-468.
- Totelin, L. M. V. 2004. Mithradates’ antidote: A pharmacological ghost. Early Science and Medicine 9(1), pp. 1-19. (10.1163/1573382041153179)
Book sections
- Totelin, L. 2023. Orchids, lizards, and lettuce: aphrodisiacs and technosomata. In: Gerolemou, M. and Chesi, G. M. eds. Body Technologies in the Greco-Roman World: Technosôma, Gender and Sex. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, pp. 221-239.
- Totelin, L. 2023. Weaning and lactation cessation in late antiquity and the early byzantine period. In: Constantinou, S. and Skouroumouni-Stavrinou, A. eds. Breastfeeding and mothering in antiquity and early Byzantium. London: Routledge, pp. 130-151., (10.4324/9781003265658-7)
- Totelin, L. and Rieder, P. 2023. Purger, fortifier: remèdes lactés (d’Hippocrate à Pasteur). In: Foehr-Janssens, Y. and Solfaroli Camillocci, D. eds. Allaiter: De l’Antiquité à nos jours. Histoire pratiques d'une culture en Europe. Brepols, pp. 669-677.
- Totelin, L. 2022. Aelian’s fabulous trees. In: De Brasi, D. and Fronterotta, F. eds. Poikile Physis: Biological Literature in Greek during the Roman Empire: Genres, Scopes, and Problems. Science, Technology, and Medicine in Ancient Cultures De Gruyter, pp. 115-128., (10.1515/9783110796858)
- Totelin, L. and King, H. 2022. Body. In: Whitmarsh, T. ed. Oxford Classical Dictionary Online. Oxford University Press, (10.1093/acrefore/9780199381135.013.1120)
- Totelin, L. 2022. Trade and exploration. In: Giesecke, A. and Mabberley, D. eds. A Cultural History of Plants in Antiquity., Vol. 1. A Cultural History of Plants London: Bloomsbury, pp. 67-83.
- Totelin, L. 2021. Hippocratic corpus. In: Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Oxford Classical Dictionary. Oxford: Oxford University Press, (10.1093/acrefore/9780199381135.013.8525)
- Bradley, M., Leonard, V. and Totelin, L. 2021. Introduction. In: Bradley, M., Leonard, V. and Totelin, L. eds. Bodily Fluids in Antiquity. London: Routledge, pp. 1-14.
- Totelin, L. 2021. Breastmilk in the cave and on the arena: early Christian stories of lactation in context. In: Bradley, M., Leonard, V. and Totelin, L. eds. Bodily Fluids in Antiquity. Routledge, pp. 240-255.
- Totelin, L. 2021. Easy remedies – difficult texts: the Pseudo-Galenic Euporista. In: Petit, C., Swain, S. and Fischer, K. eds. PseudoGalenica: The Formation of the Galenic Corpus from Antiquity to the Renaissance. London: The Warburg Institute, pp. 31-45.
- Totelin, L. M. V. 2020. A woman in flux: fluidity in Hippocratic gynaecology. In: Thumiger, C. ed. Holism in ancient medicine and its reception. Leiden: Brill, pp. 220-236., (10.1163/9789004443143_011)
- Totelin, L. 2020. A little old lady told me: appropriation of weak actors' knowledge in Graeco-Roman pharmacology. In: Epple, M., Imhausen, A. and Muller, F. eds. Weak Knowledge: Forms, Functions, and Dynamics. Campus Verlag, pp. 109-124.
- Totelin, L. 2020. Healing correspondence: letters and remedy exchange in the Graeco-Roman world. In: Totelin, L. and Flemming, R. eds. Medicine and Markets in the Graeco-Roman World and Beyond: Essays in Honour of Vivian Nutton. Classical Press of Wales, pp. 17-36.
- Totelin, L. M. V. 2020. What's a plant?. In: Taub, L. ed. The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek and Roman Science. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 141-159., (10.1017/9781316136096.008)
- Totelin, L. 2019. A sea of synonyms: naming plants in ancient pharmacological texts. In: Reggiani, N. and Bertonazzi, F. eds. Parlare la medicina: fra lingue e culture, nello spazio e nel tempo. Atti del Convegno Internazionale, Universita di Parma, 5-7 Settembre 2016. Le Monnier Universita, pp. 195-206.
- Totelin, L. 2019. Hystérie. In: Bodiou, L. and Mehl, V. eds. Dictionnaire du corps dans l'Antiquité. Presses universitaires de Rennes, pp. 326-327.
- Totelin, L. 2019. Puberté. In: Bodiou, L. and Mehl, V. eds. Dictionnaire du corps dans l'Antiquité. Presses universitaires de Rennes, pp. 529-531.
- Totelin, L. 2019. Utérus. In: Bodiou, L. and Mehl, V. eds. Dictionnaire du corps dans l'Antiquité. Presses universitaires de Rennes, pp. 635-636.
- Totelin, L. 2019. Gynécologie. In: Bodiou, L. and Mehl, V. eds. Dictionnaire du corps dans l'Antiquité. Presses universitaires de Rennes, pp. 296-298.
- Totelin, L. 2019. Sweet honey and hare's brains: Ancient pharmacology for children's diseases. In: Lambrugo, C. ed. Una favola breve: Archeologia e antropologia per la storia del''infanzia. Edizioni All'Insegna del Giglio, pp. 37-42.
- Totelin, L. 2018. Botany. In: Jones, A. and Taub, L. eds. The Cambridge history of science. Volume 1. Ancient Science. Cambridge University Press, pp. 238-247.
- Totelin, L. 2018. Animal and plant generation in classical antiquity. In: Hopwood, N., Flemming, R. and Kassell, L. eds. Reproduction: Antiquity to the Present. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 53-66.
- Totelin, L. 2018. Therapeutics. In: Pormann, P. E. ed. The Cambirdge Companion to Hippocrates. Cambridge Companions to Philosophy Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 200-216.
- Totelin, L. 2018. Gone with the wind: laughter and the audience of the Hippocratic treatises. In: Bouras-Vallianatos, P. and Xenophontos, S. eds. Greek medical literature and its readers: From Hippocrates to Islam and Byzantium. Routledge, pp. 30-47.
- Totelin, L. M. V. 2018. Tastes in ancient botany, medicine and science. In: Rudolph, K. C. ed. Taste and the Ancient Senses. London: Routledge, pp. 60-71.
- Totelin, L. 2018. Recréer les recettes de Galien. In: Verbanck-Pirard, A., Boudon-Millot, V. and Gourevitch, D. eds. Au temps de Galien: Un médecin grec dans l'empire Romain. Musée Royal de Mariemont, pp. 214-217.
- Totelin, L. 2017. The third way. In: Lemhaus, L. and Martelli, M. eds. Collecting Recipes: Byzantine and Jewish Pharmacology in Dialogue. Science, Technology, and Medicine in Ancient Cultures Boston and Berlin: De Gruyter, pp. 103-122., (10.1515/9781501502538)
- Totelin, L. 2017. From technē to kakotechnia: use and abuse of ancient cosmetic texts. In: Formisano, M. and van der Eijk, P. eds. Knowledge, Text and Practice in Ancient Technical Writing. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 138-162., (10.1017/9781316718575.008)
- Totelin, L. M. V. 2017. Whose fault is it anyway? Plant infertility in antiquity. In: Davies, G. and Loughran, T. eds. The Palgrave Handbook of Infertility in History: Approaches, Contexts and Perspectives. Basingstoke: Palgrave, pp. 57-75.
- Totelin, L. 2017. Motherhood in flux: Greek nymphs, breastfeeding, and ancient gynaecology. In: Guignard, F. P., Pedrucci, G. and Scapini, M. eds. Maternita e politeismi. Motherhood(s) and polytheisms. Patron Editore, pp. 359-370.
- Totelin, L. 2016. Pharmakopolai: a re-evaluation of the sources. In: Harris, W. V. ed. Popular Medicine in Graeco-Roman Antiquity: Explorations. Columbia Studies in the Classical Tradition Brill, pp. 65-85., (10.1163/9789004326040_003)
- Totelin, L. M. V. 2016. Breastfeeding. In: Bagnall, R. S. et al. eds. The Encyclopedia of Ancient History. Wiley, pp. 1-2., (10.1002/9781444338386.wbeah30237)
- Totelin, L. M. V. 2016. Hippocratic and Aristophanic recipes: a comparative study. In: Dean-Jones, L. and Rosen, R. eds. Ancient Concepts of the Hippocratic. Papers presented at the XIIIth Hippocrates Colloquium, Austin, Texas, 11-13 August, 2008. Leiden: Brill, pp. 292-301.
- Totelin, L. M. V. 2016. The world in a pill: local specialties and global remedies in the Graeco-Roman world. In: Futo Kennedy, R. and Jones-Lewis, M. eds. The Routledge Handbook of Identity and the Environment in the Classical and Medieval World. London and New York: Routledge, pp. 151-170.
- Totelin, L. M. V. 2015. L'odeur des autres: femme et odeur - l'intersection de la pratique Hippocratique et de la pratique religieuse. In: Jouanna, J. and Zinc, M. eds. Hippocrate et les hippocratismes : médecine, religion, société. Academies des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres, pp. 83-98.
- Totelin, L. M. V. 2014. Smell as sign and cure in ancient medicine. In: Bradley, M. ed. Smell and the Ancient Senses. The Senses in Antiquity London: Routledge, pp. 17-29.
- Baker, P., King, H. and Totelin, L. M. V. 2014. Teaching ancient medicine: the issues of abortion. In: Rabinowitz, N. S. and McHardy, F. eds. From Abortion to Pederasty: Addressing Difficult Topics in the Classics Classroom. Columbus, Ohio: The Ohio State University Press, pp. 71-91.
- Muir, S. and Totelin, L. M. V. 2013. Medicine & disease. In: Tulloch, J. H. ed. A Cultural History of Women in Antiquity., Vol. 1. Oxford: Berg, pp. 81-104.
- Totelin, L. M. V. 2010. A recipe for a headache: translating and interpreting ancient Greek and Roman remedies. In: Imhausen, A. and Pommerening, T. eds. Writings of Early Scholars in the Ancient Near East, Egypt and Greece: Zur Übersetzbarkeit von Wissenschaftssprachen des Altertums. Beiträge zur Altertumskunde Vol. 286. Berlin: De Gruyter, pp. 219-237.
- Totelin, L. M. V. 2010. Teaching the hippocratic gynaecological recipes?. In: Horstmanshoff, M. and Tilburg, C. R. v. eds. Hippocrates and Medical Education: Selected Papers Presented at the XIIth International Hippocrates Colloquium, Universiteit Leiden, 24-26 August 2005. Studies in Ancient Medicine Vol. 35. Leiden: Brill, pp. 287-300.
- Totelin, L. M. V. 2009. Galen's use of multiple manuscript copies in his pharmacological treatises. In: Doody, A. and Taub, L. eds. Authorial Choice, Authorial Voice: Greco-Roman Scientific and Medical Writing.. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, pp. 81-92.
- Totelin, L. M. V. 2009. Birth and reproduction. In: Gargarin, M. ed. Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome. Oxford: Oxford University Press
- Totelin, L. M. V. 2009. Gynecology. In: Gargarin, M. ed. The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome. Oxford: Oxford University Press
- Totelin, L. M. V. 2008. Parfums et huiles parfumées en médecine. In: Verbanck-Piérard, A., Massar, N. and Frère, D. eds. Parfums de l'Antiquité: La rose et l'encens en Méditerranée. Morlanwelz-Mariemont: Musée Royal de Mariemont, pp. 227-232.
- Totelin, L. M. V. 2007. Hippokratic Corpus, nosological works. In: Keyser, P. T. and Irby-Massie, G. L. eds. The Encyclopaedia of Ancient Natural Scientists: the Greek Tradition and its many Heirs. London: Routledge, pp. 413-414.
- Totelin, L. M. V. 2007. Perfume. In: Cancik, H. et al. eds. Brill's New Pauly: Encyclopaedia of the Ancient World. Leiden ; Boston: Brill, pp. 753-754.
Books
- Bradley, M., Leonard, V. and Totelin, L. eds. 2021. Bodily fluids in antiquity. London: Routledge.
- Totelin, L. ed. 2021. A cultural history of medicine in antiquity. The Cultural Histories Series. London: Bloomsbury.
- Totelin, L. and Flemming, R. eds. 2020. Medicine and markets in the Graeco-Roman world and beyond: Essays in honour of Vivian Nutton. Classical Press of Wales.
- Totelin, L. M. V. and Nutton, V. eds. 2020. Ancient medicine, behind and beyond Hippocrates: essays in honour of Elizabeth Craik. Pisa: Fabrizio Serra.
- Hardy, G. and Totelin, L. 2015. Ancient botany. Science of Antiquity. Abingdon and New York: Routledge. (10.4324/9780203458358)
- Totelin, L. M. V. 2009. Hippocratic recipes: Oral and written transmission of pharmacological knowledge in fifth- and fourth-century Greece. Studies in Ancient Medicine Vol. 34. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers.
Exhibitions
- Trickey, H., Totelin, L. M. V. and Sanders, J. 2016. Mamgu, mam and me: feeding babies in Wales - now and then. Exhibition for the general public at Cardiff Story Museum. [Exhibition]. Cardiff Story Musuem, 5-6 November 2016.
- Trickey, H., Totelin, L. M. V. and Sanders, J. 2015. Nain and Mam and me: Historical artefacts, social history and opening the conversation about infant feeding in Wales. [Blog]. Fferm Mathrafal, Meifod, Wales, 1-8 August 2015.
Websites
- Totelin, L. M. V. 2014. Sweet as honey. [Online]. The Recipes Project. Available at: http://recipes.hypotheses.org/4099
Ymchwil
Ancient botany
In collaboration with the botanist Gavin Hardy, I am working on an overview book entitled Ancient Botany for Routledge. Rather than presenting the topic in a chronological manner (as is the case of many overviews of the history of botany), we are adopting a thematic approach. Topics covered will include: naming, describing, and depicting plants in antiquity; ancient plants classifications; the life of ancient plants; and botanical discoveries in the ancient world.
Endoxa pharmaka: fame and fortunes of Greek and Roman remedies
Ancient pharmacological recipes may appear to be a very dry topic of research, but they are a mine of information for any ancient historian interested in social or economic history. I have published a book on the earliest recipes preserved in Greek, the recipes of the Hippocratic Corpus (Hippocratic Recipes: Oral and Written Transmission of Pharmacological Knowledge in Fifth- and Fourth-Century Greece, 2009). This study brought together my interests in the history of Greek medicine, social, cultural and economic history, studies of ancient literacy, and gender studies. I am currently working on a book manuscript resulting from my postdoctoral research. It will discuss the strategies adopted by those involved in the Greek and Roman pharmacological 'business' (i.e., medical writers, drug sellers, consumers of drugs, etc.) to promote remedies.
Addysgu
Undergraduate
- Introduction to Ancient Greek History - 20 credits (HS3101)
- Introduction to Roman History - 20 credits (HS3102)
- Investigating the Ancient World - 20 credits (HS3103)
- The Ancient World in 20 Objects - 20 credits (HS3104)
- Gods and the Polis - 10 credits (HS3330)
- Gender and Sexuality - 20 credits (HS3362)
- Science and Technology in the Graeco-Roman World - 10 credits (HS3373)
- Greek and Roman Medicine - 20 credits (HS3376)
- Pots, Poems and Pictures: using Evidence for Ancient History - 20 credits (HS4336)
Postgraduate
- Themes and Approaches in Ancient History - 20 credits (HST002)
- Gender, Sexuality and Society in Ancient Greece and Rome - 20 credits (HST018)
- Special Topic: Medicine and Society in Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages - 20 credits (HST039)
- Postgraduate Greek II - 20 credits (HST025)
Research supervision
I welcome PhD proposals relating to Greek and Roman medicine, science and technology. In particular I am interested in topics relating to pharmacology, botany and gardening, especially if they have a gender element. I would also be interested in topics relating to the reception of ancient botany and pharmacology, especially in the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Bywgraffiad
Education and qualifications
- 2002–2005 PhD, Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL
- 2001–2002 MPhil in History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge
- 2000–2001 Teaching degree in History and Classical languages, Free University of Brussels
- 1996–2000 BA in Ancient History, Free University of Brussels
Career overview
- 2015–present Senior Lecturer in Ancient History, School of History, Archaeology and Religion, Cardiff University
- 2009–2015 Lecturer in Ancient History, School of History, Archaeology and Religion, Cardiff University
- 2006–2009 Wellcome Trust Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge, and bye-fellow at Newnham College. I combined my postdoctoral research with teaching at various UK institutions (Cambridge, UCL, Imperial College, and Reading)
Anrhydeddau a dyfarniadau
- Grant Ymddiriedolaeth Wellcome Caerdydd ISSF ar gyfer 'Ancient-biotics, ail-werthuso meddyginiaethau traddodiadol ar gyfer therapïau gwrthfacterol yn y dyfodol', prosiect cydweithredol dan arweiniad yr Athro Les Baillie (Fferylliaeth), 2016
- Grant bach Ymddiriedolaeth Wellcome i drefnu'r gynhadledd 'Hylifau Corfforol/Cyrff Hylif mewn Hynafiaeth Groeg a Rhufeinig', 2016
- Grant gan y Gymdeithas Glasurol i drefnu'r gynhadledd 'Hylifau Corfforol/Cyrff Hylif mewn Groeg a Hynafiaeth Rufeinig', 2016
- Grant ICS i drefnu'r gynhadledd 'Hylifau Corfforol/Cyrff Hylif mewn Groeg a Hynafiaeth Rufeinig', 2016
- Grant Ymddiriedolaeth Wellcome Caerdydd ISSF ar gyfer 'Nain, Mam a Fi: bwydo babanod yng Nghymru, hanes cymdeithasol ac arferion modern', prosiect cydweithredol gyda Dr Julia Sanders (bydwraig ymgynghorol) a Ms Heather Trickey (DECIPHer). Dyfarnwyd grantiau llai i'r prosiect hwn gan yr Ysgol Hanes, Archaeoleg a Chrefydd, Tîm Ymgysylltu Caerdydd a Chaerdydd, 2015
- Grant Absenoldeb Ymchwil Prifysgol Caerdydd, 2014-2015
- Grant Ymddiriedolaeth Wellcome i drefnu cynhadledd 'Ymagweddau at Feddygaeth Hynafol' 2012 (Prifysgol Caerdydd), 2012
- Grant gan y Gymdeithas Glasurol i drefnu cynhadledd 'Ymagweddau at Feddygaeth Hynafol' 2012 (Prifysgol Caerdydd), 2012
- Grant Cymdeithas Glasurol ar gyfer cynhadledd 'Dulliau o Feddygaeth Hynafol' 2010 (Prifysgol Caerdydd), 2010
- Grant Ymddiriedolaeth Wellcome i drefnu cynhadledd 'Ymagweddau at Feddygaeth Hynafol' 2010 (Prifysgol Caerdydd), 2010
- Grant Ymddiriedolaeth Wellcome i drefnu panel o'r enw 'Hanes gwyddoniaeth hynafol a meddygaeth yn erbyn hanes economaidd' yng Nghynhadledd y Gymdeithas Glasurol 2010 (Prifysgol Caerdydd), 2010
- Grant Ymddiriedolaeth Wellcome i drefnu panel ar Feddygaeth Hynafol yng Nghynhadledd y Gymdeithas Glasurol 2007 (Prifysgol Birmingham), 2007
- Cymrodoriaeth Ymchwil Ôl-ddoethurol Ymddiriedolaeth Wellcome, 2006-2009
- Canolfan Ymddiriedolaeth Wellcome PhD Studenthip, 2002-2009
- Maurice Wiener–Philippe Anspach Studentship, 2001-2002
- Medal Prifysgol Rydd Brwsel am Ragoriaeth, 2000
- Erasmus Studenthip, 1998
- Gwobr Marguerite Bervoets am y canlyniad blwyddyn gyntaf orau yn y Gyfadran Athroniaeth a Llythyrau, Prifysgol Rydd Brwsel, 1997
Aelodaethau proffesiynol
- Aelod o'r Gymdeithas Glasurol
- Aelod o'r Gymdeithas Brydeinig dros Hanes Gwyddoniaeth
- Aelod o'r Gymdeithas Brydeinig ar gyfer Hanes Fferylliaeth
Safleoedd academaidd blaenorol
- 2009-2015 Darlithydd mewn Hanes yr Henfyd, Ysgol Hanes, Archaeoleg a Chrefydd, Prifysgol Caerdydd
- 2006-2009 Cymrawd Ôl-ddoethurol Ymddiriedolaeth Wellcome, Adran Hanes ac Athroniaeth Gwyddoniaeth, Prifysgol Caergrawnt
- 2006-2009 Is-gymrawd Coleg Newnham, Caergrawnt
- 2006-2009 Cymrawd addysgu, Adran Hanes ac Athroniaeth Gwyddoniaeth, Prifysgol Caergrawnt
- 2006-2009 Goruchwyliwr, Cyfadran y Clasuron, Prifysgol Caergrawnt
- 2006-2007 Cymrawd addysgu, Adran y Clasuron, Prifysgol Reading
- 2005-2006 Cymrawd addysgu, Canolfan Hanes Gwyddoniaeth, Technoleg a Meddygaeth Llundain, Coleg Imperial Llundain
- 2005-2006 Cymrawd addysgu, Adran Astudiaethau Gwyddoniaeth a Thechnoleg, Coleg Prifysgol Llundain
- 2003-2006 Goruchwyliwr, Adran Hanes ac Athroniaeth Gwyddoniaeth, Prifysgol Caergrawnt
Pwyllgorau ac adolygu
- 2015-present Erasmus/Study Abroad coordinator, History
- 2015-present Postgraduate coordinator, Ancient History
- 2015-2016 Chair of Equality and Diversity Committee, School of History, Archaeology and Religion
- 2015-2016 Member of the School Board, School of History, Archaeology and Religion
- 2013-2014 Senior Tutor, Ancient History Department
- 2010-2015 Chair of the Cardiff and District Classical Association Branch
- 2010-2013 Member of the Equality and Diversity Committee
- 2010-2012 Ancient History Part One Coordinator
- 2009-2012 Third-Year Dissertation and Second-Year Independent Study Coordinator, Ancient History Department
- 2009-2012 Exams Convener, Ancient History Department
Meysydd goruchwyliaeth
Goruchwyliaeth gyfredol
Gina Bevan
Athro