Galen's de Indolentia: Essays on a Newly Discovered Letter

By Clare K. Rothschild

In 2005, a French doctoral student discovered Galen's long-lost treatise, De indolentia or On the Avoidance of Distress in a monastic library in Thessalonica. De indolentia is a letter to an unspecified addressee in which Galen describes how he responded to the fire that destroyed much of his library and medicines in 192 CE. The manu

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3161532155
• ISBN13: 9783161532153
• Release Date: August 2014
• Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"