Le rôle des experts médicaux dans le corpus platonicien

Medical Knowledge and Practices Facing Plato: New Perspectives on the Role of Medical Expertise in the Platonic Corpus
 

Workshop



The workshop will be held in Durham, in the Ritson Room of the Department of Classics and Ancient History (38 North Bailey) and online on MS Teams on 21–22 March 2025. For the link to the livestream or other information please do not hesitate to contact giulia.bernardini@durham.ac.uk or giovanni.trovato@phd.unipi.it


This event is a collaboration between Durham's Department of Classics and Ancient History and the Dipartimento di Civiltà e Forme del Sapere of Università di Pisa. It is sponsored by the Dipartimento di Civiltà e Forme del Sapere of Università di Pisa, the British Society for the History of Philosophy (BSHP), the Durham Centre for Language and Writing Systems (CLAWS), the, the Durham Center for Ancient and Medieval Philosophy (DCAMP), the Durham Institute of Medical Humanities (IMH), the MIND Association, and the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies (SPHS).



Here is the schedule:


Friday, March 21

10.00-10.15. Welcome

Giulia Bernardini (Durham University) and Giovanni Trovato (Università di Pisa / Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici di Napoli)


Morning Session (chair: Giulia Bonasio)


10.15-11.00. Anna Novokhatko (Università di Trento / University of Thessaloniki) “Philosophers, physicians and spectators in Middle Greek comedy”

11.00-11.45. Giulia Bernardini (Durham University) “Eryximachus and the other Comedic Doctors”


Tea break


12.15-13.00. Matilde Berti (Durham University) “Plato’s Timaeus and the Hippocratic De Victu: A Medical Approach towards Virtue?”

13.00-14:30. Lunch break

Afternoon sessions (chair: Phillip Sidney Horky)

14.30-15.15. Francesco Pelosi (Università di Pisa) "Eugenics and music in Plato"

15.15-16.00. Caterina Pellò (University of Geneva) “Alcmaeon according to Plato: Physician and physikos”

Tea break


(Chair: Maria Cristina Mennuti)

16.30-17.15. Jilll Gordon (Colby College) “Disease and Sex Difference in Plato's Timaeus”

17.15-18.00. Sonja Tanner (UCCS) “Happiness is… Playing Checkers with Socrates: Logotherapy in Plato’s Charmides”



Saturday, March 22

Morning Session (chair: Chiara Blanco)

10.00-10.45. Philip van der Eijk (HU Berlin) “What does the doctor’s "knowledge of the overall nature of bodies" (Laws 857d2) consist in?"

10.45-11.30. Sophia Connell (Birbeck, University of London) “Seeds, fruits and eggs: The biomedical basis to agricultural metaphors in Plato”


Tea break


12.00-12.45. Francesco Ferro (Pontificia Università Lateranense) “Philosophical rhetoric as medicine for the soul: Zeno of Elea as bad pedagogue in the Parmenides”

12.45-13.30. Giovanni Trovato (Università di Pisa / Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici di Napoli) “Trees won't teach me anything. Nonanimal psychology in Plato’s Timaeus”

13:30-14:30. Lunch Break

Afternoon session (chair: George Alexander Gazis)

14.30-15.15. Jurgen Gatt (University of Malta) “A Hippocratic Look at the Platonic Physiology of Hearing in Timaeus”

15.15-16.00. Hermann Crüwell (University of Oxford) “Archaia physis: on the Platonic adaptation of a Hippocratic concept”
            

Tea break


16.30-17.15. Giulia De Cesaris (Università di Torino) "How does the kosmos stay in good health?"

17.15-17.30. Concluding remarks

Giulia Bernardini (Durham University) and Giovanni Trovato (Università di Pisa / Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici di Napoli)