PUBLICATIONS
Books
Phrenitis. Mental Pathology and Bodily Localisation, 500 BCE-1800 CE
A HISTORY OF MIND AND MENTAL HEALTH IN CLASSICAL GREEK MEDICAL THOUGHT. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2017)
Review: Jessica Wright on BMCR
Review: W.V. Harris on the TLS
Review: Peter Jones on Classics for All
Review: Vivian Nutton on Sehepunkte
HIDDEN PATHS. NOTIONS OF SELF, TRAGIC CHARACTERISATION AND EURIPIDES' BACCHAE. (BICS Suppl. 99, London 2007).
(Co-)edited Books
ANCIENT HOLISMS. LEIDEN: Brill (2020).
MENTAL ILLNESS IN ANCIENT MEDICINE. FROM CELSUS TO PAUL OF AEGINA (co-edited with P. SINGER). LEIDEN: Brill (2018).
HOMO PATIENS. APPROACHES TO THE PATIENT IN THE ANCIENT WORLD (co-edited with G. PETRIDOU). Leiden: Brill (2015).
EROS IN ANCIENT GREECE (co-edited, with C. Carey, N. Lowe, and E. Sanders). Oxford: Oxford University Press (2013).
Articles and Chapters
‘Clitoridectomy and the definition of sexual intercourse’. In Kazantzidis, G., Serafim, A. (eds.) Sexual Intercourse in Ancient Greece.
‘Information and history of psychiatry. The case of the disease phrenitis’. In C. Meyns (ed.) Information and the History of Philosophy. Routledge.
‘Bodies with organs, bodies without organs’. In G. Chesi, M. Gerolemou (eds.) Technosomata.
‘The eyes of the lover: medical elaborations on lovesickness and ophthalmology’. In D. Kanellakis (ed.) Eros as Pathology. Forthcoming, De Gruyter.
Chapter on ‘Animals and medicine’. In L. Totelin (ed.) The Berg/Bloomsbury Cultural History of Medicine. Volume on Antiquity. London: Bloomsbury (2021). 11,000 words.
‘The body to be hidden: shame in ancient medicine’. In Kazantzidis, G., Spatharas, D. (ed.) Medical Understandings of Emotions (forthcoming).
‘Introduction’. In Ancient Holisms. Contexts, Forms and Heritage. Brill (2020). Brill (2020).
‘Holisms, parts, wholes’. In Ancient Holisms. Contexts, Forms and Heritage. Brill (2020). Brill (2020).
• ‘Asclepiades on phrenitis and the problem of consistency (Caelius Aurelianus, Ac.Dis. 1.1, 14-15). In L. Perilli et al. (ed.) Asclepiades of Bythinia. Technai 10 (2019) 23-43.
• (With L. Graumann) ‘Children and the Art of Medical Storytelling: Contemporary Practice and Hippocratic Case-Taking Compared’. In Cases and Anecdotes, ed. by M. Asper et al. (2020).
• 'Pandemia and Holism: What Ancient Medicine Had to Say’. In Pandemics and Crises Reloaded. Distant Times So Close, ed. by L. Käppel, C. Makarewicz and J. Müller. Sidestone (2020).
• ‘Animality, Illness and Dehumanisation: The Phenomenology of Illness In Sophocles’ Philoctetes’. In G.M. Chesi and F. Spiegel (eds.) Undoing the Human: Classical Literature and the Post-Human. Bloomsbury (2019).
• ‘Aretaeus’ Stomachikon: a parodistic vein in a nosological description’. In Kazantzidis, G. (ed.) Morbid Laughter (2019).
• ‘Ancient therapies of the word’. In White, R., Xenophontos, S., et al. (eds.) Other Psychotherapies. Special issue of the journal Transcultural Psychiatry (2020).
• ‘Liebe als Krankheit’. In N. Reggiani and F. Bertonazzi (ed.) Parlare la Medicina: fra lingue e culture, nello spazio e nel tempo. Atti del Convegno Internazionale (Parma, 5-7 Settembre (2016). Firenze: Le Monnier, 2018. Collana "STUSMA - Studi sul Mondo Antico" (2018).
• ‘A most acute, disgusting and indecent disease’: Satyriasis in ancient medicine’. In Mental Illness in Ancient Medicine. From Celsus to Caelius Aurelianus (co-edited with P. Singer). Brill, Leiden (2018).
• ‘Stomachikon, Hydrophobia and eating disorders: volition and taste in late-antique medical discussions’. In Mental Illness in Ancient Medicine. From Celsus to Caelius Aurelianus (co-edited with P. Singer). Brill, Leiden (2018).
• ‘Introduction’. In Mental Illness in Ancient Medicine. From Celsus to Paul of Aegina (co-authored with P. Singer). Brill, Leiden (2018).
• ‘The professional audiences of the Hippocratic Epidemics. Patient cases, in ancient scientific communication’. In The Greek Medical Text and its Audience: Perception, Transmission, Reception, ed. by P. Bouras-Vallianatos and S. Xenophontos. Tauris (2017).
‚The Hippocratic Patient‘. In P. P (ed.) Cambridge Companion to Hippocrates. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2017).
‘The view of madness in the Ancient Greek and Roman tradition’. In G. Eghigian (ed.) The Routledge History of Madness (2017). London: Routledge.
‘The tragic prosopon and the Hippocratic facies: face and individuality in Classical Greece’. Maia. Rivista di Letterature Classiche (2016).
‘Mental disability? Galen on mental health’. In C. Laes (ed.) Disabilities in Antiquity. London: Routledge (2016).
‘Fear, Hope and the definition of Hippocratic Medicine’. In W.V. Harris (ed.) Popular Medicine in the Graeco-Roman World: New Approaches. (Columbia Studies in the Classical Tradition 42). Leiden: Brill (2016).
'Grief and Cheerfulness in early Greek medical writings'. In Bosman, P.R. (ed.) Ancient Routes to Happiness. Acta Classica Supplement 7. Pretoria: Classical Association of South Africa (2016) 95-116.
(with Ph. van der Eijk and Orly Lewis), ‘Gradualism and mental health in ancient medicine’. In G. Keil, and L. Keuck and R. Hauswald (eds.) Gradualist Approaches to Mental Health and Disease. Oxford: Oxford University Press (2016).
‘Patient function and physician function in the Epidemics cases’. In G. Petridou and C. Thumiger (eds.) Homo Patiens. Approaches to the patient in the ancient world. Leiden: Brill (2015) 107-37.
‘Introduction.’ In G. Petridou and C. Thumiger (eds.) Homo Patiens. Approaches to the patient in the ancient world. Leiden: Brill (2015) 1-22.
‘Animals in tragedy’. In G. Campbell (ed.) Oxford Handbook of Animals. Oxford: Oxford University Press (2014) 84-98.
‘Metamorphosis: human into animal’. In G. Campbell (ed.) Oxford Handbook of Animals. Oxford: Oxford University Press (2014) 384-413.
‘Mental insanity in the Hippocratic texts: a pragmatic perspective’. Mnemosyne (2015) 210-233.
‘The early Greek medical vocabulary of insanity’. IN W.V. Harris, (ED.) Mental Disorders in the Classical World. Leiden: Brill (2013) 61-95.
‘Vision and knowledge in Greek drama’. In D. Cairns, N. Rabinowitz, S. Blundell (eds.) Vision and Viewing in Ancient Greece. Special Issue of Helios 40 (2013), 223-46.
Entries ‘Ancient and modern views on character and personality’, ‘Madness’, ‘Concept of Mind’, ‘Animals and animal imagery’, ‘Vision and knowledge’, ‘Bacchae’. In H. Roisman (ed.) Blackwell Encyclopedia of Greek Tragedy. Oxford: Blackwell (2013) 206-12; 785-7; 849-51; 112-4; 1466-7; 353-9.
‘Hallucination, Drunkenness and Mirrors: Ancient Reception of Modern Drama’. In A. Bakogianni (ed.), Dialogues with the Past 1: Classical Reception Theory and Practice. BICS Supplement 126-1. London (2013) 39-60.
‘Mad Eros and eroticized Madness in Tragedy’. In E. Sanders, C. Thumiger et al. (eds.) Eros in Ancient Greece. Oxford: Oxford University Press (2013) 27-40.
‘Introduction’. In E. Sanders, C. Thumiger et al. (eds.) Eros in Ancient Greece. Oxford: Oxford University Press (2013) 1-8.
‘Metatheatre in modern and ancient fiction’. Materiali e Discussioni per l’Analisi dei Testi Classici 63 (2009) 9-58.
‘Epidemia tra le Baccanti di Euripide, Tucidide e il Corpus Hippocraticum’. Studi Italiani di Filologia Classica 7(2) 2009, 176-200.
‘anagkês zeugmat’ empeptôkamen: Greek Tragedy between Human and Animal’. Leeds International Classics Seminar (2008).
‘Personal Pronouns as Identity Terms in Ancient Greek: The Surviving Tragedies and Euripides’ Bacchae’. Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 104 (2008).
‘Visione e identità nelle Baccanti di Euripide’. ACME II (2007) 3-30.
‘Animal World, Animal Representation, and the “Hunting-Model”: Between Literal and Figurative in Euripides’ Bacchae’. Phoenix 60.3-4 (2006) 191-210.
In preparation
‘The Urbs and the empire’s stomach: Ovid's Erysichthon’.
‘Disease as beast, disease as plant’
TBD - in Medicine and Literature for Cambridge University Press's Critical Concepts Series, ed. by Anna Elsner and Monika Pietrzak-Franger
TBD (Hands and Faces) in Medicine in Roman Poetry, De Gruyter, Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes. Ed by A. Hahn, S. Martorana, C Blanco