WORKSHOP ON SCIENTIFIC WRITING IN THE ROMAN EMPIRE
School of Classics, University of St Andrews
10 May 2008
Keynote speaker: Ralph Rosen, Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the School of
Classics, University of St Andrews.
PROGRAMME AND PAPERS (provisional):
Morning session: Imperial Platonism and the Sciences
9:30 – 10:30 Ralph Rosen (UPenn): ‘Socratism in Galen’s Psychological Works’
10:30 – 11:30 Caroline Petit (Manchester): ‘Plato as a Linguistic Authority in
Galen’s Time.’
11:30-12:00 Coffee
12:00 – 13:00 Eleni Kechagia (Oxford): ‘Platonists and Natural Science: the
Example of Plutarch.’
13:00 – 14:30 Lunch
Afternoon session: Scientific Traditions and Empire
14:30 – 15:30 Serafina Cuomo (Birkbeck): ‘Vitruvius’ Book 10 and the Formation
of a Tradition in Catapult Treatises.’
15:30 – 16:30 Liba Taub (Cambridge): ‘Eratosthenes’ letter to King Ptolemy.’
16:30-17:00 Tea
17:00- 18:00 Roundtable discussion.
The event is part of the activities of the Leverhulme ‘Science and Empire in the
Roman World’ project (http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/classics/science-and-empire/).
School of Classics, University of St Andrews
10 May 2008
Keynote speaker: Ralph Rosen, Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the School of
Classics, University of St Andrews.
PROGRAMME AND PAPERS (provisional):
Morning session: Imperial Platonism and the Sciences
9:30 – 10:30 Ralph Rosen (UPenn): ‘Socratism in Galen’s Psychological Works’
10:30 – 11:30 Caroline Petit (Manchester): ‘Plato as a Linguistic Authority in
Galen’s Time.’
11:30-12:00 Coffee
12:00 – 13:00 Eleni Kechagia (Oxford): ‘Platonists and Natural Science: the
Example of Plutarch.’
13:00 – 14:30 Lunch
Afternoon session: Scientific Traditions and Empire
14:30 – 15:30 Serafina Cuomo (Birkbeck): ‘Vitruvius’ Book 10 and the Formation
of a Tradition in Catapult Treatises.’
15:30 – 16:30 Liba Taub (Cambridge): ‘Eratosthenes’ letter to King Ptolemy.’
16:30-17:00 Tea
17:00- 18:00 Roundtable discussion.
The event is part of the activities of the Leverhulme ‘Science and Empire in the
Roman World’ project (http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/classics/science-and-empire/).