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Agnodice
Agnodice (Greek: Ἁγνοδίκη, pronounced [haŋnodíkɛː]; c. 4th century BCE) is a legendary figure said to be the first female midwife or physician in ancient Athens. Her story, originally told in the ''Fabulae'' (attributed to the Roman author Gaius Julius Hyginus), has been used to illustrate issues surrounding women in medicine and midwifery. Agnodice is not generally considered a historical figure, but her legend has influenced discussions about gender roles in medical professions. According to Hyginus, Agnodice studied medicine under the famous physician Herophilos, Herophilus. Because Athenian laws prohibited women from practicing medicine, Agnodice disguised herself as a man to work as a physician. As her popularity grew among female patients, rival male physicians accused her of seducing her clients. During her trial, she revealed her identity by lifting her tunic in a gesture known as anasyrma, proving she was a woman. Although accused of illegally practicing med ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helen King (classicist)
Helen King (born 1957) is a British classical scholar and advocate for the medical humanities. She is Professor Emerita of Classical Studies at the Open University. She was previously Professor of the History of Classical Medicine and Head of the Department of Classics at the University of Reading. Early life and education King was born in 1957. She completed her first degree at University College London in Ancient History and Social Anthropology. She gained her doctorate at UCL in 1985 for a PhD on menstruation in ancient Greece supervised by Sarah C. Humphreys, Sarah C. (Sally) Humphreys. Her thesis was entitled ''From 'parthenos' to 'gyne': the Dynamics of Category.'' Academic career Having completed her doctorate, King held research fellowships at the universities of Cambridge University Press, Cambridge and Newcastle University, Newcastle, taught at the Liverpool Institute of Higher Education for eight years, and moved to Reading on a Wellcome Trust University Award in 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fabulae
The ''Fabulae'' is a Latin handbook of mythology, attributed to an author named Hyginus, who is generally believed to have been separate from Gaius Julius Hyginus. The work consists of some three hundred very brief and plainly, even crudely, told myths (such as Agnodice) and celestial genealogies. Date, authorship, and composition In the earliest published edition of the ''Fabulae'', produced in 1535 by Jacob Micyllus, the work is attributed to "Gaius Julius Hyginus, freedman of Augustus", an ascription which may have been present in the manuscript itself, or may have added by Micyllus himself. There were numerous works which were attributed in antiquity to Gaius Julius Hyginus, and, though the work may not have been composed after his lifetime (1st century BC/AD), modern scholarship, for the most part, rejects the idea that this Hyginus was the author of the work. According to R. Scott Smith, it is reasonable to suppose that the Hyginus who authored the work lived during the l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eugenia Of Rome
Eugenia of Rome (died c AD 258) was an early Christian Roman martyr whose feast day is celebrated on December 25 in the Roman Catholic Church, on December 24 (January 6, New Style) in the Eastern Catholic Churches and Eastern Orthodox Church, and on January 23 in the Armenian Apostolic Church. Legend She was said to have been the daughter of Philip, a "vir illustris" sent to govern Egypt by Commodus in his seventh consulate (192). Philip thus left Rome with his wife Claudia and his children Sergius, Avitus and Eugenia and set up home in Alexandria. Eugenia was beautiful, virtuous and studious and when she was sixteen she studied Greek and Latin literature and gained philosophers' admiration for her gravity. His father wished her to marry and provided several handsome candidates, but she forcefully rejected them, thinking good morals superior to high birth. By luck she was given copies of "the letter of Paul" (which is not specified) and the Acts of Paul and Thecla, which she read ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Procris
In Greek mythology, Procris (, ''gen''.: Πρόκριδος) was an Athenian princess, the third daughter of Erechtheus, king of Athens and his wife, Praxithea. Homer mentions her in the ''Odyssey'' as one of the many dead spirits Odysseus saw in the Underworld. Sophocles wrote a tragedy called ''Procris'' that has been lost, as has a version contained in the Greek Cycle, but at least six different accounts of her story still exist. Family Procris's sisters were Creusa, Oreithyia, Chthonia, Protogeneia, Pandora and Merope while her brothers were Cecrops, Pandorus, Metion, and possibly Orneus, Thespius, Eupalamus and Sicyon. She married Cephalus, the son of King Deioneus of Phocis. Mythology Pherecydes The earliest version of Procris' story comes from Pherecydes of Athens. Cephalus remains away from home for eight years because he wanted to test Procris. When he returns, he seduces her while disguised. Although reconciled, Procris suspects that her husban ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ancient Greek Women Physicians
Ancient history is a time period from the beginning of writing and recorded human history through late antiquity. The span of recorded history is roughly 5,000 years, beginning with the development of Sumerian cuneiform script. Ancient history covers all continents inhabited by humans in the period 3000 BCAD 500, ending with the expansion of Islam in late antiquity. The three-age system periodises ancient history into the Stone Age, the Bronze Age, and the Iron Age, with recorded history generally considered to begin with the Bronze Age. The start and end of the three ages vary between world regions. In many regions the Bronze Age is generally considered to begin a few centuries prior to 3000 BC, while the end of the Iron Age varies from the early first millennium BC in some regions to the late first millennium AD in others. During the time period of ancient history, the world population was exponentially increasing due to the Neolithic Revolution, which was in full progr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ancient Athenian Women
Ancient history is a time period from the History of writing, beginning of writing and recorded human history through late antiquity. The span of recorded history is roughly 5,000 years, beginning with the development of Sumerian language, Sumerian cuneiform script. Ancient history covers all continents inhabited by humans in the period 3000 BCAD 500, ending with the Early Muslim conquests, expansion of Islam in late antiquity. The three-age system periodises ancient history into the Stone Age, the Bronze Age, and the Iron Age, with recorded history generally considered to begin with the Bronze Age. The start and end of the three ages vary between world regions. In many regions the Bronze Age is generally considered to begin a few centuries prior to 3000 BC, while the end of the Iron Age varies from the early first millennium BC in some regions to the late first millennium AD in others. During the time period of ancient history, the world population was Exponential growth, e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
4th-century BC Greek Physicians
The 4th century was the time period from 301 CE (represented by the Roman numerals CCCI) to 400 CE (CD) in accordance with the Julian calendar. In the West, the early part of the century was shaped by Constantine the Great, who became the first Roman emperor to adopt Christianity. Gaining sole reign of the empire, he is also noted for re-establishing a single imperial capital, choosing the site of ancient Byzantium in 330 (over the current capitals, which had effectively been changed by Diocletian's reforms to Milan in the West, and Nicomedeia in the East) to build the city soon called Nova Roma (New Rome); it was later renamed Constantinople in his honor. The last emperor to control both the eastern and western halves of the empire was Theodosius I. As the century progressed after his death, it became increasingly apparent that the empire had changed in many ways since the time of Augustus. The two-emperor system originally established by Diocletian in the previous century fel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Journal Of Ancient History
The ''American Journal of Ancient History'' (often abbreviated ''AJAH'') is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering ancient history and classical studies. It was established in 1976 at Harvard University and is published by Gorgias Press. The journal is abstracted and indexed by ''L'Année philologique''.SeLISTE DES PÉRIODIQUES DÉPOUILLÉS (Accessed October 9, 2013) oL'Année philologique , Ancient Greek and Roman Studies , EBSCO(Accessed October 9, 2013) The editor-in-chief is T. Corey Brennan (Rutgers University Rutgers University ( ), officially Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is a Public university, public land-grant research university consisting of three campuses in New Jersey. Chartered in 1766, Rutgers was originally called Queen's C ...). References External links * Classics journals Academic journals established in 1976 English-language journals {{classics-journal-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Acta Theologica
''Acta Theologica'' is a peer-reviewed open access academic journal published by the University of the Free State. It covers all aspects of Christian theology. ''Acta Theologica'' was established in 1980 and is published twice a year. The editor-in-chief is Martin Laubscher. ''Acta Theologica'' is abstracted and indexed in the ATLA Religion Database and Scopus Scopus is a scientific abstract and citation database, launched by the academic publisher Elsevier as a competitor to older Web of Science in 2004. The ensuing competition between the two databases has been characterized as "intense" and is c .... It is hosted by African Journals OnLine. References {{reflist University of the Free State Christianity studies journals Biannual journals Academic journals established in 1980 Academic journals published by universities and colleges Academic journals published in South Africa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Madame Restell
Ann Trow Lohman (May 6, 1812 – April 1, 1878), better known as Madame Restell, was a British-born American abortion provider and midwife who practiced in New York City. Early life Ann Trow was born in Painswick, Gloucestershire, England in 1812 to John and (Mary) Ann Trow (nee Lewis). Her father was a labourer. At the age of 15, she started work as a maid in a butcher's family. Career At the age of sixteen, she married Henry Sommers, an alcoholic tailor from Wiltshire. After three years living in England, they emigrated to New York in 1831 where Sommers died of typhoid in 1833. Ann Trow Sommers was left alone with an infant daughter, Caroline, and was forced to make a living as a seamstress and midwife. Ann remarried in 1836, to a German–Russian immigrant, Charles Lohman. Charles Lohman worked in the printing industry, and at the time was a printer for the ''New York Herald''. He was a radical and freethinker, a friend and colleague of George Matsell, the publisher ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Cellier
Elizabeth Cellier, commonly known as the "Popish Midwife" (), was a notable Catholic midwife in seventeenth-century England. She stood trial for treason in 1679 for her alleged part in the "Meal-Tub Plot" against the future King James II, but was eventually freed. Cellier was later imprisoned for allegations made in her 1680 work ''Malice Defeated'', in which she recounted the events of the alleged conspiracy against the future King. She later became a pamphleteer and advocated for advancements in the field of midwifery. Cellier published ''A Scheme for the Foundation of a Royal Hospital'' in 1687, where she outlined plans for a hospital and a college for instructions in midwifery, as well as proposing that midwives of London should enter into a corporation and use their fees to establish parish houses where any woman could give birth. Cellier resided in London, England until her death. Life Elizabeth Cellier was a London midwife, who is known largely through the "Meal-Tub Plo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
