Disastrous: thoughts on a pandemic inspired by ancient astrology
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In this talk, Jane Lightfoot considers what a particular corner of the classical world, astrology, thought about disease – how it classified it, what mental models it built around it, and how it might have coped, or failed to cope, with the situation that is facing us today.
Speaker: Professor Jane Lightfoot FBA, Professor of Greek Literature; Charlton Fellow and Tutor in Classics, New College, University of Oxford
Image: Waning gibbous moon and Mars. © photo by japatino via Getty Images