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Scientific Program

Saturday 27/9/2008

08.30-09.00 Welcoming Remarks

Session I - Medicine and Archaeology
Chairperson: Demetrios Michaelides

09.00-09.35

Diamandopoulos, A.A., Medicine and Archaeology

09.35-09.55

Karamitrou-Mendesidi, G. and K. Moschakis, Η Ανάπτυξη της Ιατρικής
στην Άνω Μακεδονία κατά την Αρχαιότητα ( The Development of Medicine in Upper Macedonia during Antiquity)

09.55-10.30 Coffee Break
Session II - Media
Chairperson: Euphrosyne Rizopoulou-Egoumenidou
10.30-11.05

Cobolet, G., The Medical and Dental Academic Library of Paris (BIUM)

11.05-11.25 Ramos de Viesca, M.B., Viesca Treviño, C., Rodríguez Tierradentro,
S. and Itzel del Carmen Cruz Gaona
, An Example of the Use of
Multimedia Techniques for the Teaching of the History of Medicine
11.25-11.45

Sidiropoulos, G., City and Monument Virtual Visualisation in the    
Classical World (The Case Study of Pergamon and its Asclepieion)

Session III - The Aegean
Chairperson: Giorgos Papasavvas
11.45-12.20

Arnott, R., Healers and Medicines in Mycenaean Greek Texts

12.20-12.40

Morris, C. and A. Peatfield, Health and Healing on Cretan Bronze Age
Peak Sanctuaries

12.40-13.00 Sukhishvili, T., Medical Knowledge on the Evidence of Homeric Epic
13.00-14.30 Lunch Break
Session IV - Medical Authors/Schools of Medicine
Chairperson: Stella Demesticha
14.30-15.05

Lipourlis, D.D., Αναζητώντας τα Ίχνη του Ιπποκρατικού Όρκου (Tracing the Origins of the Hippocratic Oath)

15.05-15.25

Papachrysostomou, A. and G. Gazis, Echoing Hippocrates: Aspects of
Genre Intertextuality in the 5th century BC

15.25-15.45

Kalokairinou, E.M., Ancient Medicine and Philosophy: A Philosopher’s Perspective

15.45-16.05

Kalospyros, N.A.E., The Threshold of Pain: The Literary Embodiment
of Pain and its Cognates in the Hippocratic Corpus

16.05-16.30 Coffee Break
16.30-16.50

Megaloudi, F., Knowledge and Practices of Andrology in the Hippocratic Medicine

16.50-17.10

Bacalexi, D., Le Traité de Galien De Pulsibus ad Tirones: Pratique Médicale et Représentation du Corps Humain

17.10-17.30

Koutroumpas, D. and G. Papadopoulos, Γαληνού τηs Περγάμου
Τέχνη Ιατρική: Επιτομή της Ιατρικής και των Τομέων της (Galen of Pergamon´s “Art of Medicine”: An Epitome of Medicine and its Different Fields

17.30-17.50

Van der Eijk, P., Jones and After – Episodes in the Historiography of
Malaria in the Classical World

17.50-18.10

Gautherie, A., Medical Dialogue in the Books on Dietetics in Celsus’
De medicina

18.10-18.30

Cilliers, L., The Contribution of the 4th century North African Physician, Helvius Vindicianus

   
Sunday 28/9/2008
Session V - Surgery
Chairperson: Ourania Kouka
08.30-09.05

Jackson, R., Back to Basics: Surgeon’s Knives in the Roman World

09.05-09.40

Musajo Somma, A., Alexander’s Wounds as a Paradigm for War Surgery

09.40-10.15 Geroulanos, S., Surgery in Byzantium
10.15-10.35

Papadakis, M., Sfakiotakis, E., Fragakis, M., Trompoukis, C., Fragaki,  
M., Leivadara, M. and A. Manios
, Plastic Surgery of the Face in the Byzantine Times

10.35-11.00 Coffee Break
Session VI - Medicaments and Cures
Chairperson: Vasiliki Kassianidou
11.00-11.35

Zanchin, G., The Headache Remedies of the Pseudo-Apuleius. A Modern Reappraisal

11.35-12.10

Touwaide, A., Formulas for Medicaments in Ancient Medicine: A First Approach

12.10-12.30

Photos-Jones, E. and A.J. Hall, Alum, Astringency, Lemnian Earth and the Earths of the Aegean: An Archaeological Perspective

12.30-12.50

Tziraki-Segal, C. and O.Y. Margalit, "Custom Designing your Offspring": Imagination and Progeny in Greco-Roman and Jewish Sources

12.50-13.10

Itzel del Carmen Cruz Gaona, Rodríguez Tierradentro, S., Ramos de
Viesca, M.B. and C. Viesca Treviño
, Women and Contraception in the Ancient World

13.10-13.30

Gonzáles Soutelo, S., Spas in the Roman Age: Characteristics and Use
of Establishments with Mineral-Medicinal Water

13.30-15.00 Lunch Break
Session VII - Skeletal Remains
Chairpersons: Kirsi O. Lorentz and Sherry C. Fox
15.00-15.20

Santos, A.L. Cortesão Silva, F., Márquez Pérez, J. And J. Rosa, Health Care and Survival of a Child with Cranial Trauma at Augusta Emerita (Spain)

1st International CAPP Symposium "New Approaches to Archaeological Human Remains in Cyprus":

15.20-15.30

Kirsi O. Lorentz on the Cyprus Ancient Populations Project (CAPP)

15.30-15.50

Le Mort, F., Crubezy, E., Duchesne, S., Haye, L., Lenorzer, S., Harter-
Lailheugue, S., Bouchet, F., Vigne, J.-D. and J. Guilaine
, Health Status and Funerary Practices of the First Farmers of Cyprus: Influences from Shillourokambos

15.50-16.10

Parras, Z., My Side of the Mountain: Initial Colonisation and BiologicalRegionalism on Cyprus through the Neolithic and Chalcolithic

16.10-16.30

Lorentz, K.O., Ante-mortem Tooth Loss in Chalcolithic Populations of
Cyprus: Comparisons between Cemetery and Settlement

16.30-17.00 Coffee Break
17.00-17.20

Gamble, M. and K.O. Lorentz, A Preliminary Look at the Health Status of Chalcolithic Populations: Inferences from Linear Enamel Hypoplasia

17.20-17.40

Harper, N.K., Spatial Patterning and Kinship within Kourion’s
AmathousGateCemetery

17.40-18.00

Fox, S.C., Moutafi, I., Prevedorou, E.A. and D. Pilides, Trauma Patterns in Early Christian Cyprus

 
Monday 29/9/2008
Session VII - Asklepios and Incubation
Chairperson: Eleni Kalokairinou
09.00-09.20

Harrison, J., The Development of the Practice of Incubation in the Ancient World

09.20-09.40

Israelowich, I., The Authority of Physicians as Dream Interpreters in the Pergamene Asclepieion

09.40-10.00

Petridou, G., Asclepius the Physician, Asclepius the God Soter (Saviour): Epiphanies as Diagnostic and Therapeutic Tools

10.00-10.30 Coffee Break
Session IX - Byzantium
Chairperson: Maria Parani
10.30-11.05 Bakirtzis, C., Ο Ξενών του Αγίου Δημητρίου: Εικονογραφικά Ζητήματα (The Hostel of St. Demetrios: Iconographic Issues)
11.05-11.25

Trompoukis, C. Father V., Πληροφορίες Ιατρικού Ενδιαφέροντος σε Πηγές
του Κανονικού Δικαίου (Information of Medical Interest in Canon Law Texts)

11.25-11.45

Papaioannou, D., Ασθένειες όπως περιγράφονται σε Βίους Αγίων και
Τρόποι Θεραπείας αυτών (Diseases as described in the Lives of Saints and their Cure)

Session X - Byzantine, Arab and Medieval Sources
Chairperson: Chris Schabel
11.45-12.05

Tsiamis, C., Poulakou-Rebelakou, E. and G. Androutsos, The Role of the EgyptianSea and Land Routes in Justinian Plague: The Case of Pelusium

12.05-12.25

Katouzian-Safadi, M., Du diagnostic différentiel aux thérapies prudentes: Le traité de la rougeole et de la variole de Râzî

12.25-12.45 Weker, M.-M., The Ancient Background of Witelo’s Theory of Vision
  Lunch Break
 

Walk around Nicosia or Excursion

   
Tuesday 30/9/2008
  Excursion to Paphos