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Cures, Contagions, Curses: Ancient Mediterranean Medicine

This course will explore medicine of the ancient Mediterranean world, spanning from Egypt and Babylon to the empires of Greece and Rome. Members will examine diagnosis, pragmatics of treatments, theories of the body and disease, and the lives of many mythical and historical medical professionals. Then, members will study the alternative forms of treatment available to the ailing of the ancient Mediterranean—which most frequently included licit religious interventions, or even illicit magical ones. The class will also assess modern scholarship on ancient plagues and their effect on society, both then and now.

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