Studies on Ancient Plants. Multidisciplinary Approaches and New Perspectives (Bologne & en ligne)
Studies on Ancient Plants. Multidisciplinary Approaches and New Perspectives
13-14 February 2023
Università di Bologna (Via Zamboni, 38 Dipartimento di Filosofia e Comunicazione, Aula Mondolfo) & en ligne
Programme
Monday, February 13
09:15-09:30 Caterina Manco, Matteo Martelli (Bologna)
Welcome and Introduction
Morning session. Chair: Gabriele Ferrario (Bologna)
09:30-10:15 Pascal Luccioni (Lyon)
Plant-lists and poetry in the Hellenistic Period
10:15-11:15 Sean Coughlin, Diana Míčková, Heike Wilde (Prague)
The antu-list reconsidered: a synoptic reading of Edfu and Athribis ingredients
11:15-11:45 Coffee Break
11:45-12:30 Valérie Schram (Paris)
New approach to plants identification in Greek papyrological texts from Egypt
Afternoon session. Chair: Lucia Raggetti (Bologna)
14:30–15:15 Maximilian Haars (Marburg)
Seven Years in Greece – the Bavarian Botanist Carl Fraas (1810– 1875) and His Interpretations of Dioscuridean Plant Names
15:15–16:00 Marie Cronier (Paris)
La tradition illustrative du traité Sur la matière médicale de Dioscoride (grec, arabe, latin) : unité et pluralité
16:00–16:30 Coffee Break
16:30-17:15 Valérie Bonet (Aix-Marseille)
Les utilisations des armoises (Artemisia L.) dans le monde gréco- romain à la lumière des connaissances chimico-médicales actuelles
17:15-18:00 Angelo Gismondi (Rome)
Back to the roots: searching for hidden plant records in archaeological contexts
Tuesday, February 14
Morning session. Chair: Eduardo Escobar (Bologna)
09:15–10:00 Maddalena Rumor (Cleveland)
The Study of Plants in Mesopotamian Scholarship
10:00–10:45 Mark Geller (London)
Akkadian drug names in Syriac?
10:45–11:15 Coffee Break
11:15–12:00 Robert Hawley (Paris)
Semitic plant names in diachronic perspective: a few case studies
12:00–12:30 Caterina Manco, Matteo Martelli (Bologna)
Closing remarks
Università di Bologna, Via Zamboni, 38
Dipartimento di Filosofia e Comunicazione, Aula Mondolfo
ERC AlchemEast
Organizers
Caterina Manco: caterina.manco2@unibo.it, Matteo Martelli: matteo.martelli@unibo.it