An international conference entitled “The Epigraphy of Healing: Sanctuaries & Dedications in Attica” will be held at the Epigraphic Museum on Saturday, December 20, 2025.

Here’s the full schedule of events

 Saturday 20 December 2025 

10.00-10:15 Registration 

10:15-10:30  Greetings 

Panel 1:  Asklepios and Hygieia and the Politics of Healing in Attica 

 Chair: Dr Athanasios Themos 

10:30-10:50 Dr Milena Melfi (University of Oxford) 

“Reinstating Healing: Reused votive reliefs in the Athenian Asklepieion of the 1st century  BC. 

10:50-11:10 Dr Luigi Lafasciano (National Hellenic Research Foundation) 

“Performing for the God: Actors’ and Dramatists’ Dedications at the Asklepieion of Athens” 

11:10-11:30 Dr Francesco Camia (Sapienza Università di Roma)- online “IG II/III23240 and the cult of Hygieia in Attica during the Roman imperial period” 

11:30-11:50  Discussion 

11:50-12:10 Coffee Break 

Panel 2: Other healing deities of the asty 

Chair: Eleni Zavvou MSc

12:10-12:30 Professor Maria Elena Gorrini (Università degli Studi di Pavia) “Dedicants of minor healing deities: the cases of Amynos and Heros Iatros” 

12:30-12:50 Dr Brian Martens (University of St. Andrews) 

“Statuettes for Health and Healing from the Agora Excavations”

12:50-13:10 Discussion 

13:10-15:00 Lunch Break 

 Panel 3 

Healing cults on the Attic Demes and Frontiers 

Chair: Dr Aikaterini-Iliana Rassia 

15:00-15:20 Professor Graham Oliver (Brown University) 

“Integrating health from the margins: Rhamnous and the Hellenistic polis” 

15:20-15:50 Dr Kazuhiro Takeuchi (Danish Institute for Mediterranean Studies) “Prevention is Better Than Cure: The Healing Cults of Athena, Herakles, and Apollo  in Attica” 

15:50-16:10 Dr Francesco Sorbello (Università degli Studi di Pavia)- online “Healing Cults in Acharnai: Archaeological, Epigraphic, and Literary Evidence” 

16:10-16:30  Discussion 

Panel 4 

Attic Healing Cults: Philosophical And Literary Dimension 

Chair: Dr Georgia Petridou 

16:30-16:50 Dr Matthias Haake (University of Bonn) 

“Female Epicureans in Attic Healing Sanctuaries? The Case of the Asclepieion in Athens and the Amphiareion at Oropos” 

16:50-17:10  Dr Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis  (University of St. Andrews) 

“Cult tables in the sanctuaries of Amphiaraos at Oropos and Asklepios at Athens” 

17:10-17:30 Professor Andrej Petrovic (University of Virginia)-online “Purity and Epigraphy of Healing” 

17:30-17:50 Discussion 

17:50-18:10 Coffee Break

Panel 5 

The Epigraphy of Healing Heroes in Attica 

Chair:  Dr Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis 

18:10-18:30 Professor Jessica Lamont (Yale University)-online “Epigraphy of Healing: The Heros Iatros in Athens” 

18:30-18:50 Professor Laura Gawlinski (Loyola University Chicago)- online “Herakles and Health in Athens” 

18:50-19:10 Discussion 

Chair: Professor Graham Oliver 

19:10-19:30 Professor Emeritus Kevin Clinton (Cornell University)-online “Asklepios at Eleusis” 

19:30-20:00  Roundtable Discussion 

20:00 Wine Reception 

 ORGANISING COMMITTEE: Dr Athanasios Themos (Director of the Epigraphic Museum) 

Eleni Zavvou MSc (Head of the Department of Research and Documentation of Inscriptions of the Epigraphic Museum)  

Dr Georgia Petridou (University of Liverpool) 

Dr Aikaterini-Iliana Rassia (Open University of Cyprus & College Year of Athens)