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- Professor and Senior Associate Dean
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Oberhelman, Steven Professor
Positions
- Professor, International Affairs, Bush School of Government and Public Service
- Senior Associate Dean, Bush School of Government and Public Service, Texas A&M University
Steven M. Oberhelman is professor in the Department of International Affairs and holds the George Sumey, Jr., Endowed Professorship. He serves as the Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs at the Bush School. His fields of research are ancient medicine and its survivals in traditional Greek medicine, late Roman and medieval Greek cultural history, and ancient historical texts. He has written or edited 11 books and published over 70 articles and dictionary entries.
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Publications
selected publications
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academic article
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Oberhelman, S. M.
(2015).
The Folk-Healing Recipes of the Thasian Monk Gymnasios Lavriotis. Athens Journal of Health.
2(3), 191-206.
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Oberhelman, S. M.
(2015).
Toward a Typology of Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Healing Texts. Athens Journal of Health.
2(2), 133-146.
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Oberhelman, S. M.
(2014).
Anatomical Votive Reliefs as Evidence for Specialization at Healing Sanctuaries in the Ancient Mediterranean World. Athens Journal of Health.
1(1), 47-62.
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Oberhelman, S. M.
(2009).
Iatrosophia and an eighteenth-century oneirokrits in the National Library of Greece. Medicina nei secoli.
21(2), 477-501.
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Oberhelman, S. M.
(2004).
A Byzantine book on dream interpretation: The "Oneirocriticon of Achmet" and its Arabic sources. Speculum: a journal of Medieval studies.
79(1), 246-249.
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Oberhelman, S. M.
(1991).
Jerome's Earliest Attack on Ambrose: On Ephesians, Prologue (ML 26:469D-70A). Transactions of the American Philological Association.
121, 377-377.
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Oberhelman, S. M.
(1988).
Review of Hermogenes On Types of Styles by Cecil Wooten. Seventeenth-Century News.
46(3), 40-42.
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Oberhelman, S. M.
(1988).
The Cursus in Late Imperial Latin Prose: A Reconsideration of Methodology. Classical Philology.
83(2), 136-149.
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Oberhelman, S. M.
(1988).
The History and Development of the Cursus Mixtus in Latin Literature. Classical Quarterly.
38(1), 228-242.
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OBERHELMAN, S. M.
(1988).
THE HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE CURSUS-MIXTUS IN LATIN LITERATURE + PROSE RHYTHMS. Classical Quarterly.
38(1), 228-242.
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Oberhelman, S. M.
(1987).
The diagnostic dream in ancient medical theory and practice. Bulletin of the History of Medicine.
61(1), 47-60.
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Hall, R. G., & Oberhelman, S. M.
(1987).
Rhytmical clausulae in the letters of Saint Augustine. Augustiniana.
37, 258-278.
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OBERHELMAN, S. M.
(1987).
THE PROVENANCE OF THE STYLE OF AMMIANUS-MARCELLINUS. Quaderni Urbinati di Cultura Classica.
27(3), 79-89.
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Oberhelman, S. M.
(1986).
Clausular Rhythms and the Authenticity of the "Pseudo-Sallustiana". Latomus: revue d'etudes latines.
45(2), 383-391.
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Oberhelman, S. M.
(1986).
The Interpretation of Dream Symbols in Byzantine Oneirocritic Literature. Byzantinoslavica: revue internationale des etudes byzantines.
47, 8-24.
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Hall, R. G., & Oberhelman, S. M.
(1985).
Rhythmical Clausulae in the Codex Theodosianus and the Leges Novellae Ad Theodosianum Pertinentes. Classical Quarterly.
35(1), 201-214.
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Hall, R. G., & Oberhelman, S. M.
(1985).
Rhythmical clausulae in the Codex Theodosianus and the Leges Novellae Ad Theodosianum Pertinentes. Classical Quarterly.
35(1), 201-214.
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Oberhelman, S. M., & Mulryan, J.
(1983).
Milton's Use of Classical Meters in the "Sylvarum Liber". Modern Philology: critical and historical studies in postclassical literature.
81(2), 131-145.
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Oberhelman, S. M.
(1983).
Galen, On Diagnosis from Dreams. JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE AND ALLIED SCIENCES.
38(1), 36-47.
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Oberhelman, S. M.
(1981).
The interpretation of prescriptive dreams in ancient Greek medicine. JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE AND ALLIED SCIENCES.
36(4), 416-424.
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OBERHELMAN, S. M.
(1981).
THE INTERPRETATION OF PRESCRIPTIVE DREAMS IN ANCIENT-GREEK MEDICINE. JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE AND ALLIED SCIENCES.
36(4), 416-424.
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OBERHELMAN, S. M.
(1981).
TWO MARGINAL NOTES FROM ACHMET IN THE COD. LAURENT. PLUT. 87, 8. Byzantinische Zeitschrift.
74(2), 326-327.
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Oberhelman, S. M.
(1980).
Prolegomena to the Byzantine "Oneirokritika". Byzantion: revue internationale des etudes byzantines.
50, 487-504.
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Oberhelman, S. M.
(1979).
A Survey of Dreams in Ancient Greece. Classical Bulletin.
55, 36-40.
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Oberhelman, S.
(1978).
Popular dream-interpretation in ancient Greece and Freudian psychoanalysis. Journal of Popular Culture.
11(3), 682-695.
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Oberhelman, S. M.
Artemidorus' Oneirocritica. Text, Translation, and Commentary. The Classical Review.
64(1), 96-98.
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Oberhelman, S. M., & Hall, R. G.
A New Statistical Analysis of Accentual Prose Rhythms in Imperial Latin Authors. Classical Philology.
79(2), 114-130.
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Hall, R. G., & Oberhelman, S. M.
Internal clausulae in Late Latin Prose as Evidence for the Displacement of Metre by Word-Stress. Classical Quarterly.
36(2), 508-526.
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Oberhelman, S. M., & Hall, R. G.
Meter in Accentual Clausulae of Late Imperial Latin Prose. Classical Philology.
80(3), 214-227.
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Oberhelman, S. M.
(2015).
The Folk-Healing Recipes of the Thasian Monk Gymnasios Lavriotis. Athens Journal of Health.
2(3), 191-206.
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book
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Oberhelman, S. M.
(2013).
Dreams, healing, and medicine in Greece: From antiquity to the present
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Oberhelman, S. M.
(2013).
Dreambooks in byzantium: Six oneirocritica in translation, with commentary and introduction. Routledge.
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Oberhelman, S. M.
(2008).
Dreambooks in Byzantium: Six oneirocritica in translation, with commentary and introduction
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Oberhelman, S. M.
(2003).
Prose Rhythm in Latin Literature of the Roman Empire First Century B.C. to Fourth Century A.D
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Oberhelman, S. M.
(1991).
Rhetoric and homiletics in fourth-century Christian literature prose rhythm, oratorical style, and preaching in the works of Ambrose, Jerome, and Augustine. Scholars Pr.
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Oberhelman, S. M.
(1991).
The Oneirocriticon of Achmet A Medieval Greek and Arabic Treatise on the Interpretation of Dreams. Texas Tech University Press.
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Oberhelman, S. M.
(2013).
Dreams, healing, and medicine in Greece: From antiquity to the present
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chapter
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Oberhelman, S. M.
(2014).
The Dream-Key Manuals of Byzantium. Angelidi, C., & Calofonos, G. T. (Eds.),
Dreaming in Byzantium and Beyond.
(pp. 145-160).
Ashgate Publishing, Ltd..
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Oberhelman, S. M.
(2014).
The Dream-Key Manuals of Byzantium. DREAMING IN BYZANTIUM AND BEYOND.
(pp. 145-159).
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Oberhelman, S. M.
(2013).
Introduction: Medical Pluralism, Healing, and Dreams in Greek Culture. DREAMS, HEALING, AND MEDICINE IN GREECE: FROM ANTIQUITY TO THE PRESENT.
(pp. 1-30).
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Oberhelman, S. M.
(2011).
Medical Therapeutic Texts during the Ottoman Rule of Greece. Che, J., & Pappas, N. (Eds.),
The Traditional Mediterranean Essays from the Ancient to the Early Modern Era.
(pp. 315-328).
Athens Institute for Education and Research Press.
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Oberhelman, S. M.
(1998).
Portrait of a Friend. Menges, K. (Eds.),
Literatur und Geschichte Festschrift fr Wulf Koepke zum 70. Geburtstag.
(pp. 11-14).
Rodopi.
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Oberhelman, S. M.
(1996).
Dreams in Graeco-Roman Medicine. Temporini, H., & Haase, W. (Eds.),
Aufstieg und Niedergang der rmischen Welt Geschichte und Kultur Roms im Spiegel der neueren Forschung.
(pp. 121-156).
Walter de Gruyter.
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Oberhelman, S. M.
(1996).
On the Chronology and Pneumatism of Aretaios of Cappadocia. Temporini, H., & Haase, W. (Eds.),
Aufstieg und Niedergang der rmischen Welt Geschichte und Kultur Roms im Spiegel der neueren Forschung.
(pp. 941-966).
Walter de Gruyter.
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Oberhelman, S. M.
(1995).
Satire as Poetry and the Impossibility of Metathesis in Horaces Satires. Obbink, D. (Eds.),
Philodemus and Poetry Poetic Theory and Practice in Lucretius, Philodemus and Horace.
(pp. 233-254).
Oxford University Press.
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OBERHELMAN, S. M.
(1990).
THE HIPPOCRATIC CORPUS AND GREEK RELIGION. Clarke, B., & Aycock, W. M. (Eds.),
The Body and the text comparative essays in literature and medicine.
(pp. 141-160).
Texas Tech Univ Pr.
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Oberhelman, S. M.
(1980).
Greek and Roman Witches: Literary Conventions or Agrarian Fertility Priestesses?. Schroeder, F. (Eds.),
5000 Years of Popular Culture Popular Culture Before Printing.
(pp. 136-153).
Popular Press.
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Oberhelman, S. M.
Dreams, Dreambooks, and Post-Byzantine Practical Healing Manuals (Iatrosophia). DREAMS, HEALING, AND MEDICINE IN GREECE: FROM ANTIQUITY TO THE PRESENT.
(pp. 269-294).
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Oberhelman, S. M.
(2014).
The Dream-Key Manuals of Byzantium. Angelidi, C., & Calofonos, G. T. (Eds.),
Dreaming in Byzantium and Beyond.
(pp. 145-160).
Ashgate Publishing, Ltd..
editor of
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book
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Oberhelman, S. M.
(2016).
Dreams, Healing, and Medicine in Greece From Antiquity to the Present
Oberhelman, S. M. (Eds.),
Routledge.
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(2014).
Studies on Mediterranean Culture and History: From the Middle Ages through the Early Modern Period
Oberhelman, S. M. (Eds.),
Athens Institute for Education and Research.
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Oberhelman, S. M.
(1994).
Epic and epoch: essays on the interpretation and history of a genre
Oberhelman, S. M., Kelly, V., & Golsan, R. J. (Eds.),
Ed. 24.
Texas Tech University Press.
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Oberhelman, S. M.
(2016).
Dreams, Healing, and Medicine in Greece From Antiquity to the Present
Oberhelman, S. M. (Eds.),
Routledge.
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chapter
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Oberhelman, S. M.
(2013).
Dreams, Dreambooks, and Post-Byzantine Practical Healing Manuals (Iatrosophia)
Ashgate Publishing, Ltd..
269-294.
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Oberhelman, S. M.
(2013).
Introduction: Medical Pluralism, Healing, and Dreams in Greek Culture
Ashgate Publishing, Ltd..
1-33.
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Oberhelman, S. M.
(2013).
Dreams, Dreambooks, and Post-Byzantine Practical Healing Manuals (Iatrosophia)
Ashgate Publishing, Ltd..
269-294.
Teaching
teaching activities
- CLAS311 Adv Greek New Testament Instructor
- CLAS485 Directed Studies Instructor
- LBAR181 Fr Seminar Liberal Arts Instructor
- LBAR285 Directed Studies Instructor
- LBAR300 Lbar Study Abroad Instructor
- LBAR485 Directed Studies Instructor
Background
education and training
- Ph.D. in Classics, University of Minnesota - (Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States) 1981
- M.A. in Classics, University of Minnesota - (Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States) 1976
- B.S. in Latin Education, University of Minnesota - (Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States) 1974
awards and honors
- George Sumey, Jr., Endowed Professorship of Liberal Arts, conferred by Texas A&M University - (College Station, Texas, United States), 2014
- Association of Former Students University-Level Distinguished Achievement Award, The, conferred by Texas A&M University - (College Station, Texas, United States), 2004
Contact
first name
- Steven
has last name
- Oberhelman
mailing address
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Texas A&M University
International Studies Department
4215 TAMU
College Station, TX 77843-4215
USA
Other
- s-oberhelman@tamu.edu