Kenyon College hosts classicist Ann Ellis Hanson

GAMBIER, Ohio (September 14, 2004) Classicist Ann Ellis Hanson will present "Alternative Medicine in the Greek and Roman World" on Monday, September 27, at 8:00 p.m. in room 109 of Kenyon College's Hayes Hall. The lecture, which is free and open to the public, will examine how widely amulets were employed to combat the illnesses of Greeks and Romans, and will focus particular attention upon those that claim to be useful for gynecological ailments and childbirth.

During her visit at Kenyon, Hanson will also present a Common Hour discussion entitled "Construction of Family in Greco-Roman Society" at 11:10 a.m. on Tuesday, September 28, in Peirce Hall Lounge.

Professor of classics at Yale University since 1998, Hanson is a noted papyrologist and student of ancient medicine. She was curator of papyri at the Princeton University Library from 1977 to 1988, and recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship in 1992.

She has been active on committees of the American Philological Association and the American Society of Papyrologists, and has served as editor of The Society for Ancient Medicine Review and American Studies in Papyrology. She is a member of the International Workshop for Papyrology and Social History (Oxford and Columbia Universities) and participated for two years on the Greek and Babylonian Medicine Project of the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study.