10:00am-2:30pm. HCC room 111

Schedule of Presenters

10:00: Alex Delano, “Know Thyself: A History of Ancient Neuroscience”

10:20: Bex Colley, “The Nile Chronicles Podcast”

10:40: Cynthia-Rose Seeds, “Rediscovering Ancient Greek Pigmentation”

11:00: Lucca Crowe, “Divine Achilles and his Raging Heart: Cannibalism in the Iliad”

11:20: Rachel Nolan, “Mycenean Adornment”

11:40: Dylan Terrazas-Chavez, “de homine universali novo: Classical Studies and the Rebirth of the Polymath”

12:00 Naomi Trout, “The Antikythera Shipwreck: An Interactive Dive into the Past”

Brief Break for Lunch

1:00-2:30 p.m.: “Ancient Medical Case Studies” [These are students in Prof. Boyd’s CLAS 351H: Ancient Medicine and Modern Medical Terms]—ancient medical case studies of hypothetical Ancient Greek and Roman patients. Using the available ancient medical texts (i.e. the Hippocratic Corpus, Herophilos, Erisistratos, Cato the Elder, Celsus, Pliny the Elder, Soranos, Galen) students assume the role of an ancient physician and recommend a treatment plan for their patient. The patients suffer from a variety of acute and chronic illnesses, including dislocated joints, infertility, dysmenorrhea, battle wounds, gout, cataracts, animal bites, and several others. Students are also evaluating the ancient treatment plan using modern secondary sources.