Jennifer B. Clarke Kosak

Books

Heroic measures: Hippocratic medicine in the making of Euripidean tragedy. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2004.

Articles/Book Chapters

“Shame and Concealment in the Hippocratic Corpus,” in Medical Understandings of Emotions in Antiquity: Theory, Practice, Suffering, ed. George Kazantzidis and Dimos Spatharas, 123-144.  Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2022.

“Iphigenia in Tauris,” in A Companion to Euripides, ed. Laura McClure, 214-227. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2017.

“Interpretations of the Healer’s Touch in the Hippocratic Corpus,” in Homo Patiens: Approaches to the Patient in the Ancient World, ed. Georgia Petridou and Chiara Thumiger, 247-264. Leiden: Brill, 2015.

“Medicine, Suffering and Healing,” “Philoctetes,” “Neoptolemus,” in The Encyclopedia of Greek Tragedy, ed. Hanna Roisman. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013.

“Cassandra,” “Ajax,” “Alcestis,” “Danaids,” and “Suicide, Greek,” in The Oxford Encyclopedia of Greece and Rome, ed. Michael Gagarin et al. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010.

“The Wall in Aristophanes’ Birds,” in City, Countryside and the Spatial Organization of Value in Classical Antiquity, ed. Ralph Rosen and Ineke Sluiter, 173-180. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2006.

“The male interior: strength, illness and masculinity in Sophokles’ Philoktetes,” in Greek Drama III. Bulletin of the Institute for Classical Studies Supplement 87 (2006) 49-64.

“A Crying Shame: pitying the sick in the Hippocratic Corpus and Greek tragedy,” in Pity and Power in Ancient Athens, ed. Rachel Sternberg, 253-276. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005.

“Polis Nosousa: Greek ideas about the city and disease in the fifth-century B.C.,” in Death and Disease in the Ancient City, ed. E. A. Marshall and V. Hope. New York and London: Routledge, 2000.

“Therapeutic Touch and Sophokles’ Philoktetes,” Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 99 (1999) 93-134.

Work in Progress

Unmanned: Masculinity and Disease in Ancient Greek Society, a book examining the impact of disease on the performance of masculinity in ancient Greece.

“Plague and remembrance in the Iliad,” Maine Classical Association Fall Conference, October 22, 2022.

“Unnamed victims and named survivors in Greek plague narratives,” Society for Classical Studies Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, January 3-6, 2019.

“Shame and concealment in the Hippocratic Corpus,” Medical understandings of emotions in antiquity, Crete/Patras Ancient Emotions Conference II, University of Patras, Greece, December 8-10, 2017.

“Odysseus, the iambic poet: poetic genres in the Odyssey,” Maine Classical Association, Brunswick, ME. October 15, 2016.

“Politics and Polemics: Greek Medicine and the Male Body,” Body and Metaphor in Ancient Medicine, The Oriental Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, May 1-3, 2014.

“Male Patients and the Healing Hand,” Homo Patiens: Approaches to the Patient in the Ancient World, Conference at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany, June 29-July 1, 2012.

“Balance: Narratives of Health and Disease in Ancient Greece,” Center for Global Humanities, University of New England, Portland, ME. January 31, 2011.

“Gender, Sex and Behavior in Ancient Greece,” University of Southern Maine, Portland, ME. October 7, 2009.

“Observations on P. Mich. inv. 3498-3250b (verso) & P. Mich. inv. 3250c (verso),” American Philological Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, January 8-11, 2009.

“Fighting and mastering disease: metaphors and masculinity,” What’s Hippocratic about the Hippocratics? XIIIth Colloquium Hippocraticum, The University of Texas, Austin, TX, August 11-13, 2008.

“Masculinity and illness: some case studies in ancient Greece,” What is Masculinity? How Useful is it as a Historical Category? Conference at Birkbeck College, University of London, May 14-16, 2008.

“Masculinity and medicine in Ancient Greece,” invited lecture, Smith College, Northampton, MA. March 13, 2008.

“Aelius Aristides and the masculine experience of disease,” Approaches to Ancient Medicine, Ancient Medicine Research Seminar, University of Newcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, August 22-23, 2005.

“Andres gar polis: city limits in classical Greek thought,” City and Countryside in the Ancient Imagination, Penn-Leiden Colloquium on Ancient Values, Leiden, the Netherlands, June 3-5, 2004.