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Dr Rebecca Flemming 

Dr Rebecca Flemming is a University Senior Lecturer in Ancient History and Fellow of Jesus College.

Contact:

Post: Classics Faculty CB3 9DA or Jesus College CB5 8BL
Email: ref33@cam.ac.uk
Tel: 01223 (7)61560 (College) and  (3)35158 (Faculty)

Major publications:

 ‘Commentary’, in R.J. Hankinson (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Galen ( Cambridge : CUP, 2008), 323-354

‘Galen’s imperial order of knowledge’, in J. König and T. Whitmarsh (eds), Ordering Knowledge in the Roman Empire ( Cambridge : CUP, 2007), 241-277    

‘Women, writing, and medicine in the classical world’, Classical Quarterly 57 (2007), 257-279 

‘Festus and women’s role in Roman religion’, in F. Glinister and C. Wood (eds.), Verrius, Festus and Paul (Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies Supplement 93, 2007) 87-108

 ‘Suicide, euthanasia and medicine: reflections ancient and modern’, Economy and Society 32 (2005), 295-321

‘Empires of knowledge: medicine and health in the Hellenistic World’, in A. Erskine (ed.), The Blackwell Companion to the Hellenistic World ( Oxford : Blackwell, 2003), 449-463  

‘The pathology of pregnancy in Galen’s commentaries on the Hippocratic Epidemics’, in V. Nutton (ed.), The Unknown Galen (Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Supplement 77, 2002), 101-112

‘The physicians at the feast: the place of medical knowledge at Athenaeus’ dinner-table’, in D. Braund and J. Wilkins (eds.), Athenaeus and his World (Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 2000), 476-482

Medicine and the Making of Roman Women: Gender, Nature, and Authority from Celsus to Galen ( Oxford :  Oxford University Press, 2000)

‘Quae corpore quaestum facit: the sexual economy of female prostitution in the Roman Empire ’, Journal of Roman Studies 89 (1999), 38-61

Current research interests:

Social and cultural history of the Roman Empire; Ancient medicine; Women and gender: ancient and modern; Roman religion; Historiography, comparative history, and historical theory

Dr Flemming is one of the holders, with colleagues from across the University, of the Wellcome Strategic Award, ‘Generation to Reproduction’ (2009-2014): http://www.hps.cam.ac.uk/generation/

This major, interdisciplinary project aims systematically re-assess the history of reproduction from antiquity to the present day, with themes including:

·        Fertility and healing sanctuaries/shrines

·        Debating generation in the ancient and late antique worlds

·        The demographics of imperial cities   

[There are PhD and MPhil studentships available associated with this award: http://www.hps.cam.ac.uk/generation/studentships.html]

Recent graduate research topics supervised:

Sibylline Books; Hippocratic treatise On Breaths; Augustan religion

 Other Faculty positions

Academic Secretary for Graduate Affairs (from Jan 2010)