Social and cultural history of ancient Greece and Rome

Professor
Ph.D. Yale 1995

Office: 327 LeConte
Office Hours: By Appt or after class
Phone: (706) 542-2515

smattern@uga.edu

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Susan Mattern's most recent book is Prince of Medicine: Galen in the Roman Empire, forthcoming from Oxford University Press in 2013. It is a social-historical biography of the ancient physician Galen, a cultural icon whose works were the basis of western medicine until the Renaissance. She is also the author of Galen and the Rhetoric of Healing (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008), an analysis of Galen's stories about his patients and a study of his medical practice. She is also the author of Rome and the Enemy: Imperial Strategy in the Principate (University of California, 1999; now in paperback), and has co-written a textbook, The Ancient Mediterranean World from the Stone Age to A.D. 600 (Oxford University Press, 2004). After a year of professional development studying social and abnormal psychology, she is beginning research for a new book on mental illness in antiquity.

Research and Teaching Interests

Selected Publications

Galen and the Rhetoric of Healing (Johns Hopkins, 2008) More Info

The Ancient Mediterranean World from the Stone Age to A.D. 600 (Oxford University Press, 2004) More Info

Rome and the Enemy: Imperial Strategy in the Principate (University of California Press, 1999) More Info

Courses Taught

HIST2311H: Western Society to 1500 (Honors) [Syllabus]

HIST2701: World Civilizations I [Syllabus]

HIST2701H: World Civilizations I (Honors) [Syllabus]

HIST3311: History of Ancient Greece [Syllabus]

HIST3312: Roman History [Syllabus]

HIST3321: History of Women in the Ancient World [Syllabus]

HIST4225: Medicine, Healing, and the Body in Ancient Greece and Rome [Syllabus]

HIST4320: Law and Society in the Greco-Roman World [Syllabus]

HIST4990: Senior Seminar [Syllabus]

HIST8321: Colloquium in Premodern European History [Syllabus]