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A lecture by Professor Orly Lewis of the Faculty of Humanities at the Hebrew University, exploring ancient Greco-Roman views of human anatomy

Prof Lewis will take us on a wonderous journey to find out how the ancient Greek and Roman medics saw and envisaged our anatomy, and how these views informed the diagnoses and treatments they offered their patients.

ATLOMY is an open access atlas and lexicon of Greco-Roman anatomical ideas, terminology and research.
It is a result of an ongoing multidisciplinary study of the history of anatomy by project ATLOMY. Prof Lewis' team has classicists, historians, modern anatomists, 3D modellers, software developers and product experts. They work together to analyse and decipher the ancient anatomical knowledge and to present it by means of the 21st century, including: interactive 3D models, overlaid with lexical information; an interactive, searchable lexicon linked to the models.
They study the ancient texts by combining historical and philological analysis with empirical research and high-end digital and visual design and development.

Atlomy is based at the Digital Ancient Science Lab at the Department of Classics at Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Funding for ATLOMY is granted by the European Research Council under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme (GA 852550)

Who Will You See There?

Orly Lewis is Associate Professor of Classics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She has published widely on Greco-Roman medicine and the history of scientific method, with a focus on anatomy, physiology, diagnostics and their intersections. She applies an interdisciplinary method for studying ancient medicine, combining philology with visual arts, experimental re-enactments, AI and software development. With her team she has developed advanced digital tools and platforms, such as an atlas of historical anatomy and a multimodal portal on ancient dissections.

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