제84차 한국서양고대역사문화학회 정기학술대회일시: 2026년 4월 12일(일) 14:00장소: 서울대학교 인문대학 14동 203호  사회: 정기문(군산대) 14:00                개회사 - 학회장 윤  진(충북대) 14:10-15:00     허승일 (서울대 명예교수)티베리우스 그라쿠스의 농지법은 로마 공유지 몰수 과정에서 이탈리아 동맹국 시민들에게도 로마 시민과 똑같은 특혜를 주었는가?> 15:00-15:50     김혜진 (한국외대) / 토론: 이상덕(경희대)  파우사니아스의 『페리에게시스』 ‘코린토스’편 속 역사와, 신화, 기념물의 서술 알고리즘>15:50-16:10      휴식16:10-17:00      James L. Zainaldin (Vanderbilt University)Can AI Read Galen? Evaluating Machine Translation for Ancient Greek Medical Writing 17:00                 임시총회[기획주제: 서양 고대사 연구와 사료 (III)] Can AI Read Galen? Evaluating Machine Translation for Ancient Greek Medical Writing  James L. Zainaldin(Assistant Professor, Classical and Mediterranean Studies, Vanderbilt University) The rapid adoption of large language models like ChatGPT in academic contexts raises urgent questions for humanistic disciplines working with ancient languages. How good are these tools, really? Can classicists and  historians responsibly use them? This paper explores these questions through a case study in translating the Greek physician Galen of Pergamum (129–216 CE), whose vast and varied corpus—much of it still untranslated—exemplifies the challenges and opportunities AI presents for scholarship on technical ancient texts. We examine translations produced by three major commercial LLMs (ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini), subjecting them to both computational metrics standard in natural language processing and close philological analysis by domain experts. Our investigation foregrounds methodological problems: What does translation “quality” mean when expert translators legitimately disagree? How do we evaluate accuracy for texts with no existing English translation? And does AI actually “translate,” or merely regurgitate human translations absorbed during training? By bringing computational and humanistic approaches into dialogue, we aim to develop frameworks for responsible AI integration in philological research—neither dismissing these tools nor adopting them uncritically, but understanding precisely what they can and cannot do for scholars of the ancient world.James Zainaldin is Assistant Professor of Classical and Mediterranean Studies at Vanderbilt University. His work centers broadly on the scientific, technical, and philosophical traditions of ancient Greece and Rome, usually with a focus on Latin prose texts of the Roman Empire. He also works on comparative Greco-Roman/Chinese studies and the reception of the Western Classics in modern China and has a secondary appointment in the Department of Asian Studies. As a student of the Chinese tradition, Zainaldin 翟牧泗 continues to study classical and Mandarin Chinese. Zainaldin has published numerous articles and peer-reviewed book chapters on Greek and Roman science and philosophy, Latin literature, and Greco-Roman/Chinese comparative studies, including his books Gargilius Martialis: The Agricultural Fragments (Cambridge University Press, 2020) & The Artes and the Emergence of a Scientific Culture in the Early Roman Empire (Cambridge University Press, 2025).https://as.vanderbilt.edu/classical-mediterranean-studies/bio/james-zainaldin/