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Workshop: The Medical Puzzles and Natural Problems Attributed to Alexander of Aphrodisias: Problems and Prospects

Humboldt University Berlin, 25-26/9/2025

 

Thursday 25 September

9-13h: Joint paper (private)

13-18h: Lectures (public)

  • Philip van der Eijk, “The Medical Puzzles and Natural Problems and their place in the history of Peripatetic thinking about health, disease and medicine”
  • Luigi Silvano, “Remarks on the manuscript tradition of Pseudo-Alexander of Aphrodisias’
    Problemata”
  • Kosta Gligorijevic, “Three problemata on babies in ps-Alexander: 1.63, 1.121 and 1.122”
  • Katerína Oikonomopoulou, “The concept of nature in the Medical Puzzles and Natural Problems”
  • Michiel Meeusen, “The authorship of Ps-Alexander’s medical writings: a synthetic attempt”

 

Friday 26 September

9-13h: Reading marathon (public)

  • Luigi Silvano, Med. Puzz. 1.1-12
  • Kosta Gligorijevic, Med. Puzz. 1.13-26
  • Katerína Oikonomopoulou, Med. Puzz. 1.27-40
  • Michiel Meeusen, Med. Puzz. 1.41-49

14h-17h: Continue work on paper, reading, general discussion, project funding (private)