IMC 2016: Sessions
Session 616: Food and Health in Early Byzantine and Rabbinic Sources
Tuesday 5 July 2016, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art & Culture, Hellenic College, Holy Cross, Massachussetts |
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| Organiser: | Christine F. Salazar, Institut für Klassische Philologie, Humboldt-Universität, Berlin |
| Moderator/Chair: | Caroline Musgrove, Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge |
| Paper 616-a | Telling Women What to Eat: Instruction and Agency in Oribasius' Medical Collections (Language: English) Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Gender Studies, Medicine |
| Paper 616-b | Paul of Aegina on the Properties of Fruit and Vegetables: Tradition and Creativity (Language: English) Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Medicine |
| Paper 616-c | The Dynamics of Diet and Regimen: Talmudic Appropriation and Domestication of a Genre? (Language: English) Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Medicine |
| Abstract | Works about regimen - proper nutrition, care of the body, and physical exercise - form a distinct genre in the corpus of Greek medical writings from as early as the 5th century BCE. The tradition is appropriated and re-organised in the early Byzantine medical encyclopaedias (Oribasius, Aetius of Amida and Paul of Aegina) and spread throughout the Mediterranean and the Middle East. Research suggests that most of the Mediterranean Jews espoused and adapted Graeco-Roman socio-cultural values and practices. This panel aims to examine the transfer, appropriation, and/or transformation of Greek medical theories or practices by comparing early Byzantine and rabbinic writings. |