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Dr David Leith

Dr David Leith is a Wellcome Trust Postdoctoral Fellow and Affiliated Lecturer at the Faculty of Classics, and a College Research Associate at Jesus College.

Contact:

Faculty of Classics, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge, CB3 9DA
Email. dl383@cam.ac.uk
Tel. 01223 (7)48492 (Faculty) 

Research Interests

The physician Asclepiades of Bithynia; Graeco-Roman medicine; Greek papyrology; medicine and philosophy in Graeco-Roman antiquity

Publications

‘Aëtius 1.23 on the Perceptibility of Motion’ (in preparation)

‘The Elder Pliny on Asclepiades of Bithynia’ (in preparation)

‘Causing Doubts: Diodorus Cronus and Herophilus of Chalcedon on Causality’ (forthcoming)

‘Medical Doxography in P. Mil. Vogl. I 15’ (forthcoming in ZPE)

‘Galen’s Refutation of Atomism’, in P. Adamson & J. Wilberding (eds.), Philosophical Themes in Galen, BICS Suppl. (forthcoming 2013)

‘Pores and Void in Asclepiades’ Physical Theory’, Phronesis 57 (2012), 164-191 [pdf offprint here]

‘5046. Xenophon, Anabasis 1.5, 8-12’, in H. Maehler, C. Römer, and R. Hatzilambrou (eds.), The Oxyrhynchus Papyri vol. LXXV, Graeco-Roman Memoirs 96 (London 2010), 90-92

D. Leith, D. C. Parker, S. R. Pickering, and N. Gonis, M. Malouta (eds.), The Oxyrhynchus Papyri vol. LXXIV, Graeco-Roman Memoirs 95 (London 2009), Section II: Medical and Related Texts (nos. 4969-4972, 4974-4979)

‘The Qualitative Status of the Onkoi in Asclepiades’ Theory of Matter’, OSAP 36 (2009), 283-320 [pdf offprint here]

‘A Note on the Greek Medical Fragment PGolenischeff’, in I. Andorlini (ed.), Greek Medical Papyri vol. II (Florence 2009), 211-218

‘Notes on PSI III 252’, in I. Andorlini (ed.), Greek Medical Papyri vol. II (Florence 2009), 201-209 (with A. Maravela)

‘Question-Types in Medical Catechisms on Papyrus’, in L. Taub & A. Doody (eds.), Authorial Voices in Greco-Roman Technical Writing (Trier 2009), 107-123

‘The Diatritus and Therapy in Graeco-Roman Medicine’, CQ 58 (2008), 581-600

‘A Medical Treatise On Remedies? P.Turner 14 Revised’, Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 44 (2007), 125-134 [published 2008]

‘A Medical Catechism on Tumours from the Collection of the Oslo University Library’, in J. Frösen, T. Purola & E. Salmenkivi (eds.), Proceedings of the XXIV International Congress of Papyrology (Helsinki, 1-7 August, 2004), Commentationes Humanarum Litterarum 122 vol. II (Helsinki 2007), 637-650 (with A. Maravela)

‘The Antinoopolis Illustrated Herbal (PJohnson + PAntin. 3.214 = MP3 2095)’, ZPE 156 (2006), 141-156

JRF/Postdoc Representative (2011/12)
Chair of Staff Student Joint Committee