An article exploring medicine in late antique Alexandria, based on medical and hagiographic texts of the 7th c. AD.

Caroline Petit, ‘Alexandrie, carrefour des traditions médicales au 7e s.: Les témoignages de Sophrone de Jérusalem, Alexandre de Tralles, Paul d’Egine, Stéphane d’Alexandrie et Jean d’Alexandrie’ in J.-P. Caillet/B. Dumézil/S. Destephen/H. Inglebert (eds.), Aux origines des saints patrons, Paris, Picard, 2015, 287-307

Warburg Institute, 14-15 May 2015. Organised by Dr. Caroline Petit.

Galen's works are a confusing field for students and scholars, as many inauthentic or dubious works have been transmitted alongside genuine ones: this conference will shed light on the processes that allowed such confusion in the body of works of one of the more prominent polymaths of antiquity, and thus clarify the boundaries of the Galenic corpus.

Supported by the Wellcome Trust, The university of Warwick, the Warburg Institute and the Institute of Classical Studies.

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