Anatomy in Ancient Greece and Rome: An Interactive Visual and Textual Atlas

Project Information

ATLOMY

Grant agreement ID: 852550

DOI

10.3030/852550

Project closed

EC signature date 13 November 2019

Start date 1 October 2020

End date 30 September 2026

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 1 498 205,00

EU contribution

€ 1 498 205,00

Coordinated by

THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM
Israel

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Deliverables

Open Research Data Pilot (1)

Data Management Plan

Preparing a detailed Data Management Plan in accordance with the ERC template.

Publications

Non-peer reviewed articles (4)

Galen’s Typology of Organs

Author(s): Dmitry Ezrokhi, Orly Lewis
Published in: Apeiron, Issue 58, 2025, Page(s) 109-133, ISSN 0003-6390
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH
DOI: 10.1515/apeiron-2024-0077

The Visibility of the Aorta. Anatomical Ideas Behind an Ancient Etymology (Aristotle, <i>Historia Animalium</i>, 3, 513a)

Author(s): Marco Vespa
Published in: Apeiron, Issue 58, 2025, Page(s) 341-368, ISSN 0003-6390
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH
DOI: 10.1515/apeiron-2024-0046

What Galen’s dissections reveal about tacit learning in modern medical education

Author(s): Andres Pelavski, Gabriele Torcoletti, Joshua Milgram, Orly Lewis
Published in: Nature Medicine, 2026, ISSN 1078-8956
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41591-026-04412-8

Dalla trachea al cuore? Il referente di koilon in Aristotele, Historia animalium 1, 495b11-19

Author(s): Vespa, M.
Published in: Galenos: Rivista di filologia dei testi medici antichi, 2025, ISSN 1973-5049
Publisher: Fabrizio Serra

Other (18)

Greco-Roman Anatomy Atlas

Author(s): Lewis, O. (ed.)
Published in: 2024
Publisher: Hebrew University of Jerusalem: Jerusalem

Aristotle's Respiratory System

Author(s): Vespa, M., Giladi, Y., Marroquín Arroyave, E., Caino L., Milgram, J., Lewis, O.
Published in: 2023
Publisher: Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Monkey

Author(s): Vespa, M.
Published in: Encyclopedia of Medicine in the Greco-Roman World Online, 2025
Publisher: Brill

Aristotle’s Vascular System

Author(s): Vespa, M., Giladi, Y., Marroquín Arroyave, E., Caino L., Milgram, J., Lewis, O.
Published in: 2023
Publisher: Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Hippocratic Sacred Disease – Vascular System

Author(s): Lewis, O., Giladi, Y., Marroquín Arroyave, E., Caino L., Milgram, J.
Published in: 2023
Publisher: Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Galen: Muscles of the Hindlimb

Author(s): Pelavski, A. C, Giladi, Y. T, Marroquín Arroyave, E. C/S, Milgram, J. C, Lewis, O. PI.
Published in: 2025
Publisher: Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Hippocratic On Heart

Author(s): Lewis, O., Ezrohi D., Katz O., Moshkowitz A., Giladi, Y., Marroquín Arroyave, E., Milgram, J.
Published in: 2023
Publisher: Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Atlomy: Greco-Roman Anatomy Atlas

Author(s): Lewis, O., Hermon, S., Vespa, M., Giladi, Y., Marroquín Arroyave, E
Published in: 2021
Publisher: Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Dog

Author(s): Vespa, M.
Published in: Encyclopedia of Medicine in the Greco-Roman World Online, 2025
Publisher: Brill

Ancient Dissection - Re-enacted

Author(s): Lewis, O. (ed.)
Published in: 2024
Publisher: Hebrew University of Jerusalem: Jerusalem

Galen: Phonatory System

Author(s): Manelis, G., Giladi, Y., Marroquín Arroyave, E., Milgram, J., Lewis, O.
Published in: 2025
Publisher: Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Aristotle’s Gastrointestinal Tract

Author(s): Ezrohi D., Giladi, Y., Marroquín Arroyave, E., Caino L., Milgram, J., Lewis, O.
Published in: 2023
Publisher: Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Aristotle: Urinary System

Author(s): Vespa, M., Giladi, Y., Marroquín Arroyave, E., Milgram, J., Lewis, O.
Published in: 2024
Publisher: Hebrew University of Jerusalem

AMTA: Ancient Medical Text Application

Author(s): Hermon, S., Lewis, O.
Published in: 2024
Publisher: Hebrew University of Jerusalem: Jerusalem

Scorpion

Author(s): Vespa, M.
Published in: Encyclopedia of Medicine in the Greco-Roman World Online, 2025
Publisher: Brill

Aristotle: Male Reproductive System

Author(s): Vespa, M., Giladi, Y., Marroquín Arroyave, E., Milgram, J., Lewis, O.
Published in: 2025
Publisher: Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Digital Imaging and the History of Medicine

Author(s): Lewis O., Baron, Y., Ezrohi, D., Giladi, Y., Hermon, S., Propper, N., Vespa, M.
Published in: 2023
Publisher: CAU Kiel University

Polemon of Laodicea

Author(s): Vespa, M.
Published in: Polemon of Laodicea, 2025
Publisher: Brill

Peer reviewed articles (5)

Dissection revisited: Deciphering bodies and ancient medical texts

Author(s): Andres Pelavski, Esteban Marroquin-Arroyave, Joshua Milgram, Orly Lewis
Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Issue 121, 2024, ISSN 0027-8424
Publisher: National Academy of Sciences
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2416336121

When Teleology Fails: Aristotle on Bile as a Useless Residue in Parts of Animals

Author(s): Dmitry Ezrohi
Published in: Scripta Classica Israelica, Issue 42, 2025, ISSN 0334-4509
Publisher: Israel Society for the Promotion of Classical Studies
DOI: 10.71043/sci.v42i.7949

The lower cavity: the origins and history of an anatomical idea

Author(s): Dmitry Ezrokhi
Published in: Medical History, Issue 69, 2025, Page(s) 337-355, ISSN 0025-7273
Publisher: Wellcome Trust Center for the History of Medicine
DOI: 10.1017/mdh.2025.10018

The Body between Text, Image and Reality: The Anatomical Knowledge in Ancient Greece and Rome and its Visual Representation Then and Now

Author(s): Lewis, O.
Published in: Zmanin, Issue 153, 2025, Page(s) 14-29, ISSN 1565-5261
Publisher: Open University of Israel

Aristotle on the anatomy of the heart and lungs (HA 1.17): new insights from a multidisciplinary approach

Author(s): Esteban Marroquín-Arroyave, Marco Vespa
Published in: Anthropozoologica, Issue 58, 2024, ISSN 0761-3032
Publisher: Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle
DOI: 10.5252/anthropozoologica2023v58a13

Book chapters (2)

The Mechanics of Galen’s Theory of Nutrition

Author(s): Orly Lewis
Published in: Body and Machine in Classical Antiquity, 2023, Page(s) 262-295
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1017/9781009085786.012

Galen on the Pulse

Author(s): Orly Lewis
Published in: The Oxford Handbook of Galen, 2024, Page(s) 379-416
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190913687.013.15