Uploaded November 2019 | Updated September 2026, 16 hours ago

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In this special guest episode, Dr. Moudhy Al-Rashid and I discuss ancient Mesopotamian medicine, in general, and her current research on the use of metaphor in descriptions of mental distress in cuneiform medical texts



Show Notes: thehistoryofancientgreece.com/2019/11/special-guest-episode-on-mesopotamian.html



Dr Moudhy Al-Rashid

Post-Doc at Wolfson College, University of Oxford

Twitter: twitter.com/Moudhy