{"id":109,"date":"2025-07-16T12:47:49","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T12:47:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/stamp\/?page_id=109"},"modified":"2026-01-16T11:51:40","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T11:51:40","slug":"reading-group","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/stamp\/reading-group\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading Group"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>2025-2026<\/strong>: We are reading the Hippocratic Treatise <em>On Bone<\/em>s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-1 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:100%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"359\" height=\"716\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/stamp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/649\/2026\/01\/image.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-175\" style=\"width:320px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/stamp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/649\/2026\/01\/image.png 359w, https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/stamp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/649\/2026\/01\/image-150x300.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 359px) 100vw, 359px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Bronze <em>Larva Convivialis<\/em> from Sir Henry Wellcome\u2019s Museum Collection (London Science Museum)&nbsp; &nbsp;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-71d98dc1cd4108a1b72259e9b613b357\"><mark class=\"has-inline-color has-red-color\">2024-2025:<\/mark> We read sections of the pseudo-Galenic <em>Medical Definitions<\/em>, using the new <em>Corpus Medicorum Graecorum <\/em>edition by Jutta Kollesch (2023).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">\u03a4\u03af \u1f10\u03c3\u03c4\u03b9\u03bd \u1f45\u03c1\u03bf\u03c2;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">\u03a4\u03af \u1f10\u03c3\u03c4\u03b9\u03bd \u1f30\u03b1\u03c4\u03c1\u03b9\u03ba\u1f74 \u03c4\u03ad\u03c7\u03bd\u03b7;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"940\" height=\"433\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/stamp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/649\/2025\/07\/image-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-111\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/stamp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/649\/2025\/07\/image-1.png 940w, https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/stamp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/649\/2025\/07\/image-1-300x138.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/stamp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/649\/2025\/07\/image-1-768x354.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">British Library Add. MS 11888 f.2v.&nbsp;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">\u03a4\u03af \u1f10\u03c3\u03c4\u03b9 \u03c3\u03c4\u03bf\u03b9\u03c7\u03b5\u1fd6\u03bf\u03bd;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">\u03a4\u03af\u03bd\u03b1 \u1f10\u03c3\u03c4\u1f76 \u03c3\u03c4\u03bf\u03b9\u03c7\u03b5\u1fd6\u03b1 \u03c4\u1fc6\u03c2 \u1f30\u03b1\u03c4\u03c1\u03b9\u03ba\u1fc6\u03c2;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">\u03a4\u03af \u1f10\u03c3\u03c4\u03b9 \u03c3\u03c4\u03bf\u03b9\u03c7\u03b5\u03af\u03c9\u03c3\u03b9\u03c2;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><mark class=\"has-inline-color has-red-color\">2023-2024<\/mark>: We read the introduction to Hero\u2019s Pneumatics, and the early chapters. We used the Teubner edition of the Greek edited by Wilhelm Schmidt (1899) and reprinted with French translation and notes: Gilbert Argoud and Jean-Yves Guillaumin, <em>Les pneumatiques d&#8217;H\u00e9ron d&#8217;Alexandrie<\/em> (Universit\u00e9 de Saint \u00c9tienne, Centre Jean-Palerne, 1997). We enjoyed the illustrations in the 1851 Woodcroft translation, such as that below, and benefited from Courtney Roby, <em>The Mechanical Tradition of Hero of Alexandria<\/em>&nbsp;(Cambridge, 2023)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"940\" height=\"760\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/stamp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/649\/2025\/07\/image-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-125\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/stamp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/649\/2025\/07\/image-2.png 940w, https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/stamp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/649\/2025\/07\/image-2-300x243.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/stamp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/649\/2025\/07\/image-2-768x621.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><mark class=\"has-inline-color has-red-color\">2022-2023<\/mark>: We read (parts of) the Hippocratic text <em>Airs Waters Places<\/em>, starting from the beginning (here from the Cornarius early printed edition, published in Basle, 1538).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"723\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/stamp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/649\/2025\/07\/image-3-1024x723.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-127\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/stamp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/649\/2025\/07\/image-3-1024x723.png 1024w, https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/stamp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/649\/2025\/07\/image-3-300x212.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/stamp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/649\/2025\/07\/image-3-768x542.png 768w, https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/stamp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/649\/2025\/07\/image-3.png 1247w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2025-2026: We are reading the Hippocratic Treatise On Bones. 2024-2025: We read sections of the pseudo-Galenic Medical Definitions, using the new Corpus Medicorum Graecorum edition [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2653,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.0 - 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