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Faculty of Classics

 

Dr Rebecca Flemming explores the ideas and debates about human generation that emerged in the classical Greek world. How was the process of making new human beings conceptualised and described by ancient medical writers? What roles did men and women have in these theories? How was family resemblance explained? In what ways did the new anatomical investigations in Hellenistic Alexandria change understandings?

This event is part of the University of Cambridge's Science Festival. For more events across the city, see here

For adults.
Pre-book. 

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**Booking opens 11am Monday 11th February.**

 

Date: 
Wednesday, 13 March, 2019 - 18:00 to 19:00
Contact name: 
Front of house
Contact phone: 
(01223) 330402
Event location: 
Room G.19, Faculty of Classics

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