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Ann Ellis Hanson is an independent scholar of ancient history.
She combines traditional philological skills with an awareness of the latest developments in historical interpretation. Her critical explorations of noncanonical manuscripts and newly discovered papyri, enhanced by her editing and interpretive skills, demonstrate that new perspectives may be gleaned from areas of classical research previously considered marginal. She has made valuable contributions to understanding the Roman Empire and to the history of ancient science. Hanson is the editor and a contributing author of On Government and Law in Roman Egypt: Collected Papers of Naphtali Lewis (1995). She is working on a translation and commentary of Hippocrates’ Diseases of Women I-II and a general book on gynecology as practiced in the ancient world.
Biography
Hanson is a senior research scholar and senior lector of classics at Yale University. She has taught at Fordham University, the University of Texas, the Intercollegiate Center in Rome, the University of Michigan, and the University of California, Berkeley.
Hanson received a B.A. (1957) and an M.A. (1963) from the University of Michigan, and an M.A. (1969) and a Ph.D. (1971) from the University of Pennsylvania.
Last updated January 1, 2005
Published on July 1, 1992
