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University College Roosevelt and the Netherlands Institute at Athens present the Undergraduate Research Seminar Brawny Breasts & Brainy Bodies Perspectives on Health in Ancient Greece Keynote speaker: Helen King January 11th 2019 The Netherlands Institute at Athens, Makri 11, Athens The Seminar begins at 10.15 AM The Keynote lecture begins at 18.00 Programme Chair: Helle Hochscheid 9.45 – Doors open 10.15 – 11.30 Session 1: Healthy habits Emma Weerd – Their milk, Not Their Children: nurses on Classical Attic Tombstones Eline Suverkropp – Examining Humours in the Ayurveda and Hippocratic Medicine Tobias Grant – Getting Drunk with Aristophanes Lukas Gianocostas – Decently Drunk in Fifth-Century Athens 11.45 – 13.00 Session 2: Worshiping Asklepios and Hygieia Emma de Koning – Hygieia: Between Woman and Goddess Danise van Hal – Water in Greek Asklepieia Sien Christiaanse – Sanctuaries of Asklepios: Sacred Space and its Rituals Clarissa Frascadore – The Epidaurian Miracle Inscriptions 13.00 – 14.30 Lunch Break (lunch not provided) 14.30 – 15.45 Session 3: Bones and Bodies Vera Bruntink – Cursing Bodies: Body Parts in the Attic Defixiones Yolande Hobbs – A Harrowing Experience: Surviving Battle Wounds in Ancient Greece Florence Fowkes –The Gloves are Off: Boxing on Attic Vase Painting Alexandra Tyan – Healthy Bodies: The Evidence of Human Remains from Classical Greece 16.00-17.00 Session 4: The Rhetorical Body Wies Voerman – Suffering Pain in Attic Tragedy Aoife Holohan – Love, Sickness and Action in Chariton’s Callirrhoe Sara Bartl – Embodied Persuasion: Mental Simulation in Demosthenes’ Deliberative Oratory 17.00 – 17.30 Plenary discussion Keynote lecture by Helen King Managing blood, controlling bodies: women’s health in ancient Greece The medicine of the Hippocratic Corpus presents the female body as dominated either by the womb or by the blood accumulated in its spongy flesh. Despite women’s stated difference from men, their bodies were essential to the formation and nourishment of the next generation. This lecture raises the question of how these different models coexisted and in how far women were imagined as active agents in managing their health both in medical and religious healing. Helen King, professor emerita, Open University UK The lecture will be followed by a reception January 11th 2019, 18.00 Netherlands Institute at Athens Makri 11, Athens www.nia.gr