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The B Club

The following meetings will all take place in Room 1.11, Faculty of Classics, and begin at 5.00 p.m. Tea from 4.30 p.m.

Easter Term

7 May: Dr Giles Pearson, University of Bristol: 'Aristotle and the construal account of emotions'

21 May: Dr Shaul Tor, Jesus College: ‘Heraclitus on Apollo's language and his own’

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Thursday Seminar

We will be reading Plato, Theages.

Meeting every Thursday beginning 3 May in room 1.11, Faculty of Classics.

Meetings on 3 and 17 May begin at 6pm after the meeting of the Philological Society.  Meetings on 10 and 24 May begin at 5.15pm.

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Mayweek Seminar, Monday 28th May - Friday 1st June 2012

Anonymus Londinensis

The so-called Anonymus Londinensis is the unknown author of an extensive medical text on papyrus, held in the British Library, which draws on a doxographical survey of the causes of disease attributed by the author to Aristotle, and offers an account of human physiology based largely on the Hellenistic medical tradition. Hermann Diels, who first edited the papyrus in 1893, was interested in it primarily for the light it cast on his reconstruction of the doxographical tradition, but it also carried far-reaching implications for views on Hippocrates and the medical background to Plato's work.

The seminar is open to anyone resident in Cambridge who is prepared to attend at least a substantial number of the sessions. Visitors from outside Cambridge should check with David Sedley (dns1@cam.ac.uk) or David Leith (dl383@cam.ac.uk). All sessions will be held in Room 1.11, Faculty of Classics, Sidgwick Site, Cambridge.


Monday 28th May
10.30-12.30: Cols. i 1 - iv 17, James Warren
4.00-6.00: Cols. iv 18 - viii 10, Geoffrey Lloyd

Tuesday 29th May
10.30-12.30: Cols. viii 10 - xiv 6, Vivian Nutton
4.00-6.00: Cols. xiv 6 - xviii 8, Harold Tarrant

Wednesday 30th May
10.30-12.30: Cols. xviii 8 - xxi 13, Daniela Manetti
4.00-6.00: Cols. xxi 13 - xxv 35, David Sedley

Thursday 31st May
10.30-12.30: Cols. xxv 35 - xxx 40, Brooke Holmes
4.00-6.00: Cols. xxx 40 - xxxiv 53, TBA

Friday 1st June
10.30-12.30: Cols. xxxiv 53 - xxxix 32, David Leith
4.00-6.00: Retrospect, Rebecca Flemming>
> 6.30 onwards: party with food (details TBA)

Text: new Teubner edition in D. Manetti (ed.), Anonymus Londiniensis: De Medicina (Berlin 2011). A .pdf is available, from within Cam domain, from the De Gruyter website at: http://www.degruyter.com/view/product/176219?rskey=7nsN6p&result=3&q=manetti Click on 'Read Content', and select 'Anonymi Londiniensis Iatrica'. Any difficulties, please contact David Leith (dl383@cam.ac.uk).

English translation, not entirely reliable, and based on Hermann Diels' 1893 edition, available in W.H.S. Jones, The Medical Writings of Anonymus Londinensis (Cambridge 1947). For a useful introduction to the papyrus, see D. Manetti, 'The Role of Doxography in the Anonymus Londinensis', in P.J. van der Eijk (ed.), Ancient Histories of Medicine (Leiden 1999), 95-141.