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Papers by Dina Bacalexi

HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), 2022

? hl=fr&gbpv=1&dq=markantonatos+companion+euripides&printsec=frontcover "A Goliath of a manuscrip... more ? hl=fr&gbpv=1&dq=markantonatos+companion+euripides&printsec=frontcover "A Goliath of a manuscript" issued a Goliath of a book. In the aftermath of the Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012), Andreas Markantonatos' (professor of Greek at the University of Peloponnese) editorial achievement is a survey of the entire Euripidean spectrum 1. The organization of the content, explained on p. 7-8, greatly facilitates reading: part 1, "the poet and his work", includes studies on the individual plays and the fragments; parts 2-7 guide us through "dominant themes, overriding ideas and prevailing motifs"; finally, part 8, "Euripides made new", deals with modern reception and translation. The latter is limited to English, but we welcome the advice to learn ancient Greek for a personal approach to the original text. The two indexes, in particular the first one (subjects), greatly facilitate the reading. Each of the 49 erudite chapters includes a relevant and updated multilingual bibliography suitable even for undergraduates under appropriate guidance.

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Bulletin de l'Association Guillaume Bude. Association Guillaume Bude, 2001

HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), Dec 15, 2022

HAL is a multidisciplinary open access archive for the deposit and dissemination of scientific re... more HAL is a multidisciplinary open access archive for the deposit and dissemination of scientific research documents, whether they are published or not. The documents may come from teaching and research institutions in France or abroad, or from public or private research centers. L'archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, émanant des établissements d'enseignement et de recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires publics ou privés. Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial| 4.0 International License

An overview of Open science policies, especially since the UNESCO recommendation on Open science ... more An overview of Open science policies, especially since the UNESCO recommendation on Open science (November 2021): institutional policy and its impact on scientists' everyday work; Open science as a driver of confidence between science and society; how Open science, fostering North-South and South-South cooperations, can limit brain-drain and enhance the mobility of scientists worldwide; funding, staffing and the future of Open science

Digital Humanities Conference, 2017

Humanitas, 2016

In the IA, Iphigenia accepts to be sacrificed. This voluntary sacrifice can be interpreted as a r... more In the IA, Iphigenia accepts to be sacrificed. This voluntary sacrifice can be interpreted as a result of her threefold motivation: personal, love for life; paternal, love for her father Agamemnon, the leader of the Greek army which is about to sail to Troy; and patriotic, love for her country, the great Hellas, whose dignity and freedom Agamemnon and the army intend to defend. These three motives are interconnected and should not be considered separately. This is the principal Euripidean innovation, with regard to the mythical and Aeschylean tradition of Iphigenia's sacrifice. It allows us to reconsider the Aristotelian criticism concerning Iphigenia's change of mind, and to restore the unity of the character.

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Gesnerus, 2005

In his De morborum causis Galen presents the very moment of childbirth, in order to emphasise tha... more In his De morborum causis Galen presents the very moment of childbirth, in order to emphasise that the midwife's act of reception is instrumental in preventing malformations of the infant's "humid" limbs; nurses are also responsible for future malformations. The role of the midwife as the physician's assistant with female patients is stressed by Hippocrates and Soranos. The French Renaissance physicians Simon de Vallambert, Jacques and Charles Guillemeau refer to Galen in order to criticise the incompetence of midwives and nurses, as opposed to biological mothers, who have to breast-feed their babies because nurses lack moral integrity. Galen's commentator François Valleriole explains that nurses swaddle girls differently from boys because they aim at artificial (immoral) beauty. Leonhart Fuchs underlines that improper swaddling causes girls to lose their femininity. Thus, medical commentary changes into moralising remarks in order to maintain the moral and...

Rhazes (9th cent.), and Leonhart Fuchs (16th cent.) were good readers of the Greek physicians (Hi... more Rhazes (9th cent.), and Leonhart Fuchs (16th cent.) were good readers of the Greek physicians (Hippocrates, Galen, Dioscorides etc.). Fuchs, well known for his criticism of the Arabic medicine and his promotion of the Greek one, is actually a meticulous reader of Avicenna, Rhazes, as well as his own contemporary physicians. Both Rhazes and Fuchs put forward their concern about medicine dealing with everyday patients, in everyday life, in order to cure as many people as possible and to issue instructions as detailed and precise as possible intended for their fellow physicians, as well as for “paramedics” (druggists or surgeons). Our key aim is to study the extent to which those readings of the Greek physicians gave birth to innovative medicine, through respectful or polemic use of the past, and careful examination of changes due to chronological, social or environmental factors. The case studies we propose to examine are pertaining to: terminology, including the paradox of discussing...

Galen was the basis of medical learning in the Eastern Medieval period. The translations of his w... more Galen was the basis of medical learning in the Eastern Medieval period. The translations of his works into Syriac and Arabic were studied and commented not only as witnesses of “ancient times”, but mostly as vivid knowledge, leading to an autonomous Arabic medicine. Rhazes uses Galen as a medical authority, in order to deepen and broaden his own medical thinking. We will study two examples: Doubts concerning Galen and The treatise of smallpox and measles. Rhazes, who is not a Hellenist, is quoting Galen and commenting on the quotations using the extant Arabic translations. In the Renaissance, the Greek Galen was “rediscovered”, translated into Latin and commented. The translators and commentators, all Hellenists, tried to establish a boundary between their “authentic” Galen, and the Arabic one. Galen was thus supposed to facilitate the emergence of a medicine directly transmitted from Antiquity into the West, with no Arabic intermediary. They pretended to ignore that the Arabic appr...

Galen’s treatises, regarded as a fundamental part of medical education, had already been translat... more Galen’s treatises, regarded as a fundamental part of medical education, had already been translated into Latin, commented and included in the university curricula of the Middle Ages. Yet there was a new interest in these works developed by Renaissance humanists, who knew Greek and were able to read Galen “in the original”. In order to facilitate the study of these treatises by students whose knowledge of Greek remained inadequate, there were many Latin translations and commentaries of Galen’s works by Renaissance humanists. We will focus on two commented editions of Galen’s De morborum differentiis/causis, De symptomatum differentiis/causis. The fist one (Lyon, 1540) contains the Latin translation of Guillaume Cop and the commentary by Francois Valleriole, a French physician of Arles. The second one (Paris, 1550) contains the Latin translation and commentary by the German humanist Leonhart Fuchs. Our first purpose is to study the relationship of each translator with the Greek langua...

Une base de données organise la connaissance en vue de son utilisation par un public donné. Cette... more Une base de données organise la connaissance en vue de son utilisation par un public donné. Cette définition trop rapide et lacunaire ne tient pas compte de la complexité du processus de création, ni de la véritable nature d’une base numérique, qui, pour nous, doit être le fruit d’un dialogue entre la partie scientifique et la partie technique du projet. Nous allons étudier, pour deux bases antiquisantes, le processus de passage d’une approche textuelle, libre de toute contrainte, à une autre basée sur la structuration, c’est-à-dire la transcription en structuration formelle des décisions prises par les analystes des textes antiques. Dans ces deux cas, un nouvel accès, résultat de la restructuration des outils, vise un public nouveau tout en servant mieux l’ancien :

Les trois traducteurs de Galien dont il sera question ici, Niccolo Leoniceno, Guillaume Cop et Le... more Les trois traducteurs de Galien dont il sera question ici, Niccolo Leoniceno, Guillaume Cop et Leonhart Fuchs, appartiennent chacun a un milieu humaniste different, meme si leur fonction d'enseignants de la medecine et de medecins praticiens marque egalement leur parcours. Les deux derniers sont aussi marques par les idees de la Reforme, auxquelles ils adherent a des degres divers, allant de la sympathie a l'adoption complete; Niccolo Leoniceno, quant a lui, reste attache au catholicisme. Le positionnement different des courants humanistes par rapport aux etablissements universitaires «institutionnels» influe sur le degre de virulence de la critique que chacun des ces trois humanistes adresse aux Arabes, ceux-la memes qui ont domine l'enseignement de la medecine en Occident pendant les siecles passes. Et le degre d'emancipation par rapport a l'institution universitaire s'accompagne d'une moderation de ces critiques, qui n'ont pas la connotation ideolo...

In the Alcestis, Euripides presents a new insight on the literary motif of the sacrifice and resu... more In the Alcestis, Euripides presents a new insight on the literary motif of the sacrifice and resurrection of the beloved, operated through the intervention of an omnipotent hero. In this play, the morally uplifting narrative that originates from fairy tales and legends prompts questioning about the validity/durability of social stereotypes concerning heroism, nobility and marriage and finally opens the way of the socialization of men and women.

Ancient, Medieval and Renaissance medical treatises written by physicians contain information per... more Ancient, Medieval and Renaissance medical treatises written by physicians contain information pertaining to various categories of people involved in healthcare. In case of specific patients, women and children, female assistance by midwives and nurses is indispensable; female auxiliaries often replace the physician in crucial moments such as birth or swaddling. When specific technical skills or professional activities regarding medicinal substances are concerned, druggists step on stage. Female “paramedics” are not academics or learned persons like physicians. Physicians provide comprehensive descriptions of their assistants’ mission and gestures in their treatises. The situation for druggists is more complex: they could be learned botanists or simple merchants; whatever their learning and training may be, their social position differs from the physician’s. Galen and Hippocrates refer to female and male “paramedics”. Soranos refers exclusively to female ones. Razes underlines the in...

Galen’s On the pulse for beginners (ca. 162-166 BC) is not a mere introductory treatise, but cond... more Galen’s On the pulse for beginners (ca. 162-166 BC) is not a mere introductory treatise, but condenses nearly the whole Galenic pulse science, making it accessible. Thanks to its pedagogical character, the treatise is a part of the Alexandrian medical curriculum (the 6th-cent. Canon), as well as of the Arabic Summaria (6th-7th cent.). Widely commented and translated (into Syriac, Arabic and Latin) or imitated (for example in the early Byzantine period), this short treatise’s reception from Late Antiquity until Renaissance shows its importance for medical education and practice. An overview of its translations and comments, focusing on the work of the Renaissance humanists (Johann Winter, Gregoire Martin, Leone Rogano, Francisco Valles) helps us examine the terminological, conceptual and practical evolution of the study of the pulse. Taking the pulse is touching the patient. We will examine the advantages and limits of this non verbal communication between two bodies: is it taken for...

Apres avoir dresse le portrait de chacun de ces trois humanistes, examine leurs traductions latin... more Apres avoir dresse le portrait de chacun de ces trois humanistes, examine leurs traductions latines des traites de Galien Sur les differences des maladies, Sur les causes des maladies, Sur les differences des symptomes et Sur les causes des symptomes, en les comparant pour faire ressortir leurs differences de style, qui permettent de replacer chaque traducteur dans leur contexte culturel et de mener une reflexion sur la langue de traduction (latin humaniste) en lien avec l'original grec, ainsi que sur l'apport des traductions de la Renaissance pour les editions et traductions d'aujourd'hui

Dans son De morborum causis, Galien examine le moment precis de la naissance, pour souligner que ... more Dans son De morborum causis, Galien examine le moment precis de la naissance, pour souligner que le geste de reception affectue par la sage-femme est capital pour la prevention des malformations des membres «humides» de l’enfant. Selon lui, les nourrices sont tout egalement responsables de la diaplasis future. Hippocrate et Soranos etudient egalement le role des sagesfemmes comme auxiliaire medical aupres des femmes. Les medecins francais du XVIe siecle Simon de Vallambert, Jacques et Charles Guillemeau, se referant a Galien, critiquent l’incompetence des sages-femmes et des nourrices, opposees aux meres biologiques; ils pronent l’allaitement maternel comme principe plutot moral que medical. Le commentateur de Galien, Francois Valleriole, critique les nourrices, qui emmaillotent les filles differemment des garcons puisqu’elles aspirent a la beaute artificielle (immorale). Leonhart Fuchs ridiculise les jeunes filles ayant perdu leur feminite. Ainsi le discours medical devient moralis...

HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), 2022

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Bulletin de l'Association Guillaume Bude. Association Guillaume Bude, 2001

HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), Dec 15, 2022

Digital Humanities Conference, 2017

Humanitas, 2016

Gesnerus, 2005

Renaissance libraries are not mere evidence of antiquarianism or the prerogative of bibliophiles.... more Renaissance libraries are not mere evidence of antiquarianism or the prerogative of bibliophiles. Publishing activity development facilitates knowledge dissemination. New editions of ancient texts are issued by printers who introduce technical innovations and collaborate with the humanists in charge of the philological accuracy.
The personal marks of library owners and book readers, ex libris and marginalia, provide information about intellectual communities in their socio-economic and historical context.
Examination of Renaissance physicians’ libraries through possession marks and paratexts (dedicatory epistles, addresses to the reader, prefaces) sheds light on books as tools for advancing doctrine, practice and professional skills. A case in point is a new library, 318 books of Jesuitic provenance currently in the National Library in Rome, printed between the early 16th and the mid-17th cent., whose owner, Laurentius de Rubeis, has not yet been identified.
We will describe this library, discuss its utility, formulate hypotheses about its owner, and present the BUDE database centralizing data pertaining to the transmission of ancient texts in the Renaissance.
Linking history of medicine and history of book reading with the intellectual and social history fuels the debate about the role of books in the transformation of a (venerable) past into present and future.

Galen (2nd cent.) promotes experience and reason as the two pillars of his medical-educational pr... more Galen (2nd cent.) promotes experience and reason as the two pillars of his medical-educational process. In his treatise On the powers of simple drugs, he criticizes the “Sophists’” method of demonstration based on induction and example. Yet he himself resorts to examples, giving them a prominent place in the demonstrative process.
Rāzī (9th cent.) exemplifies medical theory and practice resorting to stories from all kinds of people, many of them outside the medical milieu.
In his treatise Spiritual book (Kitāb ṭibb al-ruḥanī), Rāzī tries to keep out malaise, discomfort and unease. He undertakes this task putting daily life under close scrutiny and giving simple examples of ordinary circumstances recognized by everyone. He showcases the difficulty of achieving a balanced and healthy condition of mind and body and reaching human happiness. These points seem closer to the so-called “non-natural” or ”six” causes than to the usual rules of disease care.
Both Galen and Rāzī transform situations everyone could meet in “real life” into pieces of medical evidence.
Yet “real life” is not independent of time. In the Renaissance, the erudite humanists who use Galen’s work as the source of medical education have to reconcile their respect for his authority with their own intellectual and social context. How do they handle this challenging situation? Less erudite works aimed at “professionals” engage with religious beliefs and practices as part of the readers’ “real life”, without an explicit link to piety.
Our aim is to diachronically study a selection of non-medical examples in their medical context or more generally in a wellness setting. We would like to focus on the transformation of their nature and use in the framework of knowledge transmission and innovation. Medicine is not mere rhetoric, yet the rhetoric of persuasion, including thoughtful engagement with “real life”, plays a crucial role for an education whose roots are erudite and whose branches flourish transcending time and place.

The session entitled "Open Science policy" was the last one of the workshop on Open science which... more The session entitled "Open Science policy" was the last one of the workshop on Open science which took place November 11-13, 2022, in Castro Urdiales (Cantabria, Spain). This report includes the summary and the conclusions of the session

Ancient physicians such as Dioscorides and Galen write treatises about materia medica, drug class... more Ancient physicians such as Dioscorides and Galen write treatises about materia medica, drug classification and use. They often relate their personal experience in collecting medicinal substances. Paramedical drug specialists are rare: Galen mentions servants acting under his guidance, or sellers of medicinal components; but he is the specialist. The target audience of pharmacological treatises and drug narratives is mostly physicians or at least people with a comparable social status.
In the Oriental Medieval world, physicians continue to be the drug experts and to write pharmacological treatises. However, physicians as well as patients must buy their drugs at the market, from druggists. Druggists’ social and economic position is regarded as extremely important by the authorities; hence a specialized police or muḥtasib, which controls drugs, prevents cheating, and establishes the relation between the expertise of physicians and the know-how of druggists.
The Renaissance humanists (such as Leonhart Fuchs and Conrad Gesner) translate and comment on Dioscorides and Galen, teach medicine or write treatises on medicinal substances, targeting students and physicians. They hardly address practical aspects of pharmacology, but recognize the qualifications of druggists, whose competence depends on their understanding of Greek authors.
We will examine the difference of social and economic status between drug experts and physicians; the ways physicians speak to druggists: terminology, instructions, assessment of their work; the relationship between trade activity and know-how; and a gender issue: the physician’s point of view on druggists compared to midwives, both paramedics who possess know-how and skill.

Approche lexicologique et diachronique du concept de la science ouverte. La science ouverte au d... more Approche lexicologique et diachronique du concept de la science ouverte. La science ouverte au delà de l'accès ouvert: démocratisation de la connaissance. L'UNESCO et la science ouverte. Pistes pour l'avenir.

Medical authors either seek for innovation through criticism of their predecessors, or regard the... more Medical authors either seek for innovation through criticism of their predecessors, or regard themselves as perpetuators of a tradition considered to be a foundation of reliable theory and practice. Galen, competing with his fellow physicians and frequently alluding to their work, enriches, unifies and transforms the so-called “Hippocratic” medicine. Medieval and Renaissance physicians pursue this tradition.
Razes (9th cent.), in treatises such as al-Manṣūrī, Smallpox and measles, Doubts about Galen, engages in a permanent and hard-hitting dialogue with his predecessors, including Galen, citing them, calling into question their authority and pointing out that respect for tradition and adaptation to new realities are not contradictory. We can compare his method with Leonhart Fuchs’ (16th cent.) attempt in his Paradoxa medicinae and his commented editions of Galen, to “resolve” Galen’s apparent contradictions.
Razes often seeks advice from oral sources such as travellers or merchants: how can such sources be reliable and contribute to enhancing medical knowledge? How can Razes “reconcile” oral and bookish culture?
Renaissance humanists provide numerous references to non-medical texts such as Greek and Latin poetry, tragedy and comedy, history, natural philosophy: to what extent do those references go beyond erudition and rhetoric, highlighting medical issues or fueling medical polemics?
References to religious texts will also be considered: is there an appropriate context for Biblical passages and Christian exegetes? Are they actually useful for medical scholars or paramedical professionals, despite their moral connotations? Although Razes is particularly stingy with Koranic citations, we can find some examples of religious or moral references in his treatises.
Our aim is to study the different ways to insert aliena scientia such as non medical textual and oral sources into medical (including pharmaceutical or paramedical) works stemming from different academic and professional traditions: how is this scientia “embedded” in a medical context? What is its role in the healing process in particular and in advancing knowledge in general?

Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 2022

Dina Bacalexi. Andreas Markantonatos, Brill's companion to Euripides. Brill's companions to class... more Dina Bacalexi. Andreas Markantonatos, Brill's companion to Euripides. Brill's companions to classical studies. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2020. Pp. xxx, 1138. ISBN 9789004269705 €269,00.. Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 2022, https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2022/2022.03.40/. ⟨hal-03951199⟩