Dr. Caroline Petit is a Professor of Classics and the History of Medicine at the University of Warwick, serving as Director of Graduate Studies and Erasmus/Exchange Officer. She specializes in ancient medical texts, particularly Galen, and the intersection of medicine with rhetoric and literature. Her career spans teaching at Paris-Sorbonne, Exeter, and Manchester, with Wellcome Trust fellowships. She holds prestigious awards like the Humboldt Bessel Prize (2020) and the Médaille de Chénier (2019). Her research focuses on textual transmission, Galenic corpus authenticity, and medical rhetoric, with projects like 'Medical Prognosis in Late Antiquity' and 'Rethinking Ancient Pharmacology'. Education: M.A., M.Phil., and PhD in Classics from Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV). She has supervised numerous PhD and MA students, including Claudio Azzarito and Dennis Van Dijk. Her work appears in journals like Rhetorica and Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Sciences , and she authored Galien de Pergame ou la rhétorique de la Providence (2018). She directs the MedicineAncientandModern.com blog and contributes to Renaissance Venice health studies.










