Elena Bellini M.A.
Ancient Philosophy and History of Ancient Science (APhil/HistAS)
Philosophie
Research Training Group
Philosophy, Science and the Sciences,
Hannoversche Str. 6
10115 Berlin
Seit 2020
PhD student in History of Ancient Philosophy at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
2019
M.A. in Philosophy and Forms of Knwoledge (University of Pisa). Thesis: Ancient theories of respiration. From Homer to Aristotle
2016
B.A. in Philosophy (University of Pisa). Thesis: The epistemology of Albert the Great's commentary to Aristotle's zoological works
Imagining respiration. Two Hellenistic models in comparison
My project wants to offer a fresh perspective over the historical meaning of the innovations brought about by Herophilus of Chalcedon and Erasistratus of Ceos. Since a systematic analysis of their proceedings would have gigantic dimensions, not to mention the concrete risk of generalisation, I propose to narrow the focus to one single process: respiration. Now, never having been problematized the diversity emerging from their two theories of respiration, I believe that it would be particularly fruitful to regard Herophilus’ and Erasistratus’ account of it as paradigmatic of their methodology, while possibly shedding some light on the extent of the so-called “anatomical revolution” and its debts towards tradition.
Forthcoming
Socrates between Pregnancy and Midwifery, in F. Pentassuglio, C. Balla (eds.), Rethinking Socrates and the Socratics. Selected papers from Socratica V, De Gruyter, Berlin, pp. 97-106, forthcoming.
Tra salute e malattia: Erofilo e Galeno sulla senilità come condizione neutra, in G. Flamigni, C. Delle Donne (eds.), Ὁ δὲ ἀνεξέταστος βίος οὐ βιωτὸς ἀνθρώπῳ. Studi in onore di Maria Michela Sassi, ETS, Pisa, forthcoming.
Diocles on inhalation and exhalation: reflecting upon fr. 32, in R. Lo Presti, O. Overwien, S. von Seggern (eds.), Medicine of the Mind, Philosophy of the Body. Essays in Honour of Philip van der Eijk, De Gruyter, Berlin, forthcoming.
Cassius Iatrosophista; Philinos of Cos, in H. Perdicoyianni-Paleologou (ed.), Lexicon of the Greek and Roman anatomists, physicians and surgeons from Antiquity to the Byzantine empire, L'Harmattan, Paris, forthcoming.
2023
Herophilus on the (in)visibility of respiration, in «Florentia Iliberritana» 34 (2023), pp. 71-94.