Rebecca Flemming is a Classics. She holds the inaugural A.G. Leventis Chair as Professor of Ancient Greek Scientific and Technological Thought at the University of Exeter.
Education
Flemming completed her PhD at University College London in 1997. Her doctoral thesis was
Woman as an Object of Medical Knowledge in the Roman Empire, from Celsus to Galen.
Career and research
Flemming specialises in medicine, reproduction, pandemics, and gender in classical antiquity. Flemming took up her position at Exeter University in 2022 when the chair was established with a £1.2m donation from the A. G. Leventis Foundation.
In 2021, Flemming contributed to an episode of
In Our Time on the Justinianic Plague.
Bibliography
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Rebecca Flemming (2021) 'Fertility control in ancient Rome', Women's History Review, 30:6, 896–914
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Rebecca Flemming and Laurence Totelin (eds) (2020) Medicine and Markets in the Graeco-Roman World and Beyond Essays on Ancient Medicine in Honour of Vivian Nutton (Swansea: The Classical Press of Wales)
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Nick Hopwood, Rebecca Flemming, and Lauren Kassell (eds) (2018) Reproduction Antiquity to the Present Day (Cambridge University Press)
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Rebecca Flemming (2000) Medicine and the Making of Roman Women Gender, Nature, and Authority from Celsus to Galen (Oxford University Press)
