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2025

  1. Vespa, M., Giladi, Y., Marroquin Arroyave, E., Milgram, J., Lewis, O., “Aristotle: Female Reproductive System”, in Lewis, O. (ed.), Greco-Roman Anatomy Atlas. (v. 1.0, 1.10.2025 https://www.atlomy.com/model/Aristotle_-_Reproductive_System/214).

  2. Manelis, G., Giladi, Y., Marroquin Arroyave, E., Milgram, J., Lewis, O., “Galen: Phonatory System”, in Lewis, O. (ed.), Greco-Roman Anatomy Atlas. (V. 2.0, 27.12.2025) https://www.atlomy.com/model/Galen_-_Phonatory_System/222.

  3. Lewis, O. “The Body between Text, Image and Reality: The Anatomical Knowledge in Ancient Greece and Rome and its Visual Representation Then and Now.” Zmanim. 153 (2025), 14-29. Special issue: Visual Representations of the Body and its Treatment”, eds. Naama Cohen-Hanegbi and Liat Kozma [Hebrew]

  4. Pelavski A. C, Giladi, Y. T, Marroquin Arroyave, E. C/S, Milgram, J. C, Lewis, O. PI, “Galen: Muscles of the Hindlimb”, in Lewis, O. (ed.), Greco-Roman Anatomy Atlas. (Forthcoming).

2024

  1. Lewis, O. (ed.). Greco-Roman Anatomy Atlas, Jerusalem: HUJI www.atlomy.com. 2021-. Version 1.0, 2021. Version 1.2. 2023. Version 1.4. 2024.

  2. Lewis, O. (ed.). Ancient Dissection – Re-enacted, Jerusalem: HUJI, https://dissections.atlomy.com/ . 2024–2026

  3. Hermon, S., Lewis, O. 2024. AMTA: Ancient Medical Text Application. HUJI: Jerusalem. Beta Version. 2024-2026
    Code and access available upon request: https://github.com/Atlogit/atlomy_chat An online app for advanced analysis of ancient Greek medical texts and Natural Language search, as well as automated composition of detailed lexical analyses of ancient Greek medical terms and their use in different contexts and authors. The Graphic User Interface (GUI) allows researchers and students with no coding skills to perform complex computational, lexical and semantic analysis.

  4. Lewis, O. “Galen on the Pulse: Theory and Method”, in R. Rosen, P.N. Singer (eds.), Oxford Handbook of Galen (Oxford: Oxford University Press  2024), 379-416.

  5. Vespa, M., Giladi, Y.,  Marroquin Arroyave, E., Milgram, J., Lewis, O., “Aristotle: Urinary System”, in Lewis, O. (ed.), Greco-Roman Anatomy Atlas. (v. 1.0, 28.4.2024 https://www.atlomy.com/model/Aristotle_-_Urinary_System/86).

  6. Ezrokhi, D., Lewis, O. “Galen’s Typology of Organs.” Apeiron, 58.2 (2025) 109-133  https://doi.org/10.1515/apeiron-2024-0077.

  7. Pelavski A. C, Marroquin-Arroyave, E. C/S, Milgram, J. C, Lewis, O. C/PI, “Dissection revisited: deciphering bodies and ancient medical texts”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121 (50) e2416336121, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2416336121 (2024).

2023

  1.  “Perceiving and Diagnosing Pain according to Archigenes of Apamea,” in H. Baltussen, D. King and J. Clarke (eds.), Pain Narratives in Antiquity (Leiden: Brill, 2023, 145-175). doi.org/10.1163/9789004677463_008 

  2.  “The Mechanics of Galen’s Theory of Nutrition”, in G. Kazantzidis and M. Gerolemou (eds.), The Body as Machine in Antiquity (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023), 262-295. doi:10.1017/9781009085786.012  

  3. Lewis, O., Giladi, Y., Marroquin Arroyave, E., Caino L., Milgram, J., “Hippocratic Sacred Disease – Vascular System”, in Lewis, O. et al., ATLOMY. Greco-Roman Anatomy Atlas. (v1.5, 1.6.2023, https://www.atlomy.com/three-d-model/hippocrates_sacred%20disease%20-%20vascular%20system_04082023_1612.glb/72). 

  4. Vespa, M., Giladi, Y., Marroquin Arroyave, E., Caino L., Milgram, J., Lewis, O., “Aristotle's Respiratory System”, in Lewis, O. et al., ATLOMY. Greco-Roman Anatomy Atlas. (v. 1.1, 10.6.2023, https://www.atlomy.com/three-d-model/aristotle_respiratory%20system_04082023_1559.glb/47). 

  5. Vespa, M., Giladi, Y., Marroquin Arroyave, E., Caino L., Milgram, J., Lewis, O., “Aristotle’s Cardiovascular System”, in Lewis, O. et al., ATLOMY. Greco-Roman Anatomy Atlas. (v. 1.2 30.6.2023, https://www.atlomy.com/three-d-model/aristotle_cardiovascular_220823_1108.glb/61). 

  6. Ezrohi D, Giladi, Y., Marroquin Arroyave, E., Caino L., Milgram, J., Lewis, O., “Aristotle’s Gastrointestinal Tract”, in Lewis, O. et al., ATLOMY. Greco-Roman Anatomy Atlas. (v. 1.0 10.5.2023, https://www.atlomy.com/three-d-model/aristotle_gastrointestinal%20system_070923_2145.glb/66). 

  7. Lewis, O., Ezrohi D., Katz O., Moshkowitz A., Giladi, Y., Marroquin Arroyave, E., Milgram, J., “Hippocratic On Heart”, in Lewis, O. (ed.), Greco-Roman Anatomy Atlas. (v. 1.1 9/2023) https://www.atlomy.com/model/Hippocratic_-_On_the_Heart/97).

  8. Orly Lewis, Yael Baron, Dmitry Ezrohi, Yotam Giladi, Shay Hermon, Nir Propper, Marco Vespa “Digital Imaging and the History of Medicine”. Contribution to the online international exhibition Comparative Guts (Curator: Chiara Thumiger, CAU Kiel University, 2023). https://comparative-guts.net/digital-imaging-and-history-of-medicine/  

2022

  1. Lewis, O. “Galen against Archigenes on the Pulse and What It Teaches Us about Galen’s Method of Diairesis”, in M. Havrda and R.J. Hankinson (eds.), Galen's Epistemology: Experience and Reasoning in Ancient Medicine, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022), 190-217. doi:10.1017/9781009072670.009

  2. Lewis, O. Review of Petros Bouras-Vallianatos, Innovation in Byzantine Medicine: The Writings of John Zacharias Aktouarios, Isis 113.2, (2022) 432-433. https://doi.org/10.1086/719523

2021

  1. Lewis, O., Hermon, S., Vespa, M., Giladi, Y., Marroquín Arroyave, E. ATLOMY (Greco-Roman Anatomy Atlas), Jerusalem: HUJI [Online; Available at www.atlomy.com]. Version 1.0, 2021. Version 1.2. 2023.

2020

  1. Lewis, O. “The Clinical Method of the Anonymus Parisinus”, in: P. Bouras-Vallianatos (ed.), Exploring Greek Manuscripts at The Wellcome Library (London: Routledge, 2020), 25–54.  https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429470035 

  2. Lewis, O. “Heat and Fire in the Theory of Ps.-Aristotle’s De Spiritu”, in H. Bartos and C. King (eds.), Heat, Pneuma and Soul in Ancient Philosophy and Science: From the Presocratics to Aristotle, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020), 140–156. doi:10.1017/9781108651714.009  

  3. Coughlin, S., Leith D., Lewis O. (eds.) The Concept of Pneuma after Aristotle (Berlin: Edition Topoi, 2020). https://edition-topoi.org/book/1597-the-concept-of-pneuma-after-aristotle/

  4. Coughlin, S., Leith, D., Lewis, O. “Introduction”, in: S. Coughlin, D. Leith, O. Lewis (eds.), The Concept of Pneuma after Aristotle (Berlin: Edition Topoi, 2020), 7–13. https://edition-topoi.org/book/1597-the-concept-of-pneuma-after-aristotle/  

  5. Lewis, O., Leith, D., “Pneuma in Early Hellenistic Medicine”, in: S. Coughlin, D. Leith, O. Lewis (eds.), The Concept of Pneuma after Aristotle (Berlin: Edition Topoi, 2020), 93–129. https://edition-topoi.org/book/1597-the-concept-of-pneuma-after-aristotle/ 

  6. Coughlin, S., Lewis, O., “What was Pneumatist about the Pneumatist School?”, in: S. Coughlin, D. Leith, O. Lewis (eds.), The Concept of Pneuma after Aristotle (Berlin: Edition Topoi, 2020), 203–236. https://edition-topoi.org/book/1597-the-concept-of-pneuma-after-aristotle/ 

2018

  1. Lewis, O. “Archigenes of Apamea’s Treatment of Mental Diseases”, in P.N. Singer and C. Thumiger (eds.), Mental Diseases in Ancient Medicine (Leiden: Brill, 2018), 143–175. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004362260_006

  2. Lewis, O. “Fragments of History and Science”, Isis 109.1 (2018), 83–86. https://doi.org/10.1086/697065

2017

  1. Lewis, O. “Mental and Physical Gradualism in Greco-Roman Medicine”, in K. Geert, R. Hauswald, L. Keuck (eds.), Vagueness in Psychiatry (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017), 27–45. (with Chiara Thumiger and Philip van der Eijk) https://doi.org/10.1093/med/9780198722373.003.0002

  1. Lewis, O. Praxagoras of Cos on Arteries Pulse and Pneuma: Fragments and Interpretation (Leiden: Brill, 2017). https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004337435

*Winner of the Young Historian Prize of the International Academy for the History of Science http://www.aihs-iahs.org/en/prizes

Reviews:  

  1. Manetti, D., “Orly Lewis. Praxagoras of Cos on Arteries, Pulse, and Pneuma,” Medical History 63.2 (2019)": 240–242. https://doi.org/10.1017/mdh.2019.20

  2. Gill, C., “Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy,” Phronesis 63, no. 2 (2018): 211-222 (see 213-214). https://doi.org/10.1163/15685284-12341348 

  3. Nutton, V., “Orly Lewis. Praxagoras of Cos on Arteries, Pulse, and Pneuma,” Isis 109, no. 2 (2018): 378-379. https://doi.org/10.1086/697909 

  4. Wright, J., “Orly Lewis. Praxagoras of Cos on Arteries, Pulse, and Pneuma,” Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 2017.07.34 (2017). http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2017/2017-07-34.html 

  5. Afonasin E.V. and Afonasina A.S., “Orly Lewis. Praxagoras of Cos on Arteries, Pulse, and Pneuma,” History of medicine 4, no. 4 (2017): 410–412. DOI: 10.17720/2409-5834.v4.4.2017.10j

2016

In: U. Kornmeier (Ed.). (2016). The Soul is an Octopus: Ancient Ideas of Life and the Body (Berlin: Medizinhistorisches Museum der Charité and Edition Topoi). http://www.topoi.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/sb_01_Kornmeier.pdf :

  1. “Dissection as a Method of Discovery”, pp. 24−29. 

  2. “Localising the Soul in the Body”, pp. 31−35.

  3. “Brain and Heart as Organs of the Soul”, pp. 37−43.

  4.  “Substances in Service of the Soul”, pp. 45−51.

2015

  1. Lewis, O. “The Practical Application of Ancient ‘Pulse-Lore’ and its Influence on the Patient-Doctor Interaction”, in G. Petridou and C. Thumiger (eds.), Approaches to the Patient in the Ancient World (Leiden: Brill, 2015), 345-364. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004305564_015

  2. Lewis, O. “Marcellinus’ De pulsibus: a Neglected Treatise on the Ancient ‘Art of the Pulse’”, Scripta Classica Israelica 34 (2015), 195-214. https://www.academia.edu/13019063/Marcellinus_De_pulsibus_a_Neglected_Treatise_on_the_Ancient_Art_of_the_Pulse_._Scripta_Classica_Israelica_34_2015_195-214

  3. Gregoric, P., Lewis, O., Kuhar, M. “The Substance of De Spiritu”, Early Science and Medicine, 20.2 (2015), 101-124. https://doi.org/10.1086/680674

  4. Lewis, O., Gregoric, P. “The Context of De Spiritu”, Early Science and Medicine 20.2 (2015), 125-149. https://doi.org/10.1163/15733823-00202p01

  5. Gregoric, P., Lewis, O. “De Spiritu: A New Case against Authenticity”, Classical Philology, 110.2 (2015), 159-167. https://doi.org/10.1163/15733823-00202p02

Publications by my lab team as part of a research with me as PI

  1. Ezrohi, D, “When Teleology Fails: Aristotle on Bile as a Useless Residue in Parts of Animals”, Scripta Classica Israelica, vol. 42 (2023), 111-129. https://scriptaclassica.org/index.php/sci/article/view/7949

  2. Marroquín Arroyave, E., Vespa, M. “Aristotle on the Anatomy of the Heart and Lungs (HA, 1.17): New Insights from a Multidisciplinary Approach”, Anthropozoologica 58 (13) (2023), 131-143. https://doi.org/10.5252/anthropozoologica2023v58a13

  3. Vespa, Marco. “The visibility of the aorta. Anatomical ideas behind an ancient etymology (Aristotle, Historia animalium, 3, 513a)”, Apeiron 58.3 (2025) 341-368. https://doi.org/10.1515/apeiron-2024-0046

  4. Ezrokhi, Dmitry. “The Lower Cavity – The Origins and History of an Anatomical Idea”, Medical History 69 (3) (2025), 337-355. doi:10.1017/mdh.2025.10018

  5. Vespa, Marco. “Dalla trachea al cuore? Il referente di koilon in Aristotele, Historia animalium, 1, 495b 11-19”, Galenos. Rivista di filologia dei testi medici antichi, 19 (2025), 9-27.

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