Description: 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
Brief description: Born 1964; 1986 BA University of California, Berkeley; 1992 MTS Harvard University; 2003 PhD University of Chicago; Professor of Scripture Studies at Lewis University.
Review Quotes: "...Rothschild and Thompson are to be commended for commissioning articles on such a wide variety of topics. Their volume is essential reading for anyone interested in Galen's On Freedom from Distress and merits a place in any Classics library." --David H. Kaufman, Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 2015.07.22