***Special Guest Episode on Mesopotamian Medicine w/Moudhy Al-Rashid***
The History of Ancient Greece
Ryan Stitt
4.3 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 11 November 2019
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
In this special guest episode, Dr. Moudhy Al-Rashid and I discuss ancient Mesopotamian medicine, in general, and her current research on the use of metaphor in descriptions of mental distress in cuneiform medical texts
Show Notes: http://www.thehistoryofancientgreece.com/2019/11/special-guest-episode-on-mesopotamian.html
Dr Moudhy Al-Rashid
Post-Doc at Wolfson College, University of Oxford
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| 0:00.0 | You're going to be. So, The Hello, I'm Ryan Stitt and welcome back to the History of Ancient Greece. |
| 0:44.3 | We are taking a break from our regularly scheduled programming for another special guest |
| 0:48.2 | episode today. |
| 0:49.6 | This is the seventh episode in a series where I converse with classicists and now as seriologists about either books or |
| 0:56.2 | articles that they have published, their current research interests, or just unique classes |
| 1:00.8 | and topics that they are teaching and exploring further. |
| 1:04.8 | In today's special guest episode, I am joined by Dr. Moody Al Rashid, postdoc at Wolfson College, |
| 1:10.6 | University of Oxford and the United Kingdom. |
| 1:13.4 | Her current research focuses on the use of metaphor and descriptions of mental distress and |
| 1:18.0 | Kuneiform medical texts, and she teaches classes on the Acadian language and the history of science and medicine in ancient Mesopotamia. |
| 1:26.0 | Dr. Al-Rashid is also an entertaining and informative follow on Twitter, |
| 1:31.0 | and we have bonded over our mutual love for dogs. |
| 1:34.4 | As we have discussed at length in the podcast, there is so much Mesopotamian influence |
| 1:38.6 | on ancient Greek culture and vice versa, so I thought Dr. Al-Rashid would be the perfect person to bring on to give the other |
| 1:45.5 | perspective, specifically in terms of Mesopotamian medicine. And who knows, perhaps I can |
| 1:50.9 | control her to come back onto the show in the future and talk about |
| 1:54.2 | Mesopotamian astronomy. So without further ado, here is my conversation with |
| 1:58.7 | Dr Moody Al Rashid. So I'm joined today with Dr. Moody Al Rashid. We're going to talk about ancient |
| 2:06.3 | Babylonian medicine. So thank you for joining me. Thank you for having me. |
| 2:10.0 | So what is the earliest evidence that we have for Babylonian or Mesopotamian medicine in general and just a context in my episode we talked about |
| 2:20.0 | Hippocratic medicine in ancient Greek world and we talked about some you know like home-erich bronze age type of like medics and that was not until you know the first millennium BC |
| 2:30.6 | So obviously I'm imagining that the Babylonian evidence that we have is a little bit older than that, right? |
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