About the Author

Philippa Lang, Ph.D. (2001) in Classics, University of Cambridge, is Associate Professor of Classics at Emory University. She has published on Hellenistic medicine and classical philosophy, and is the author of two commentaries for Brill's New Jacoby.

Reviews

"The book offers an important contribution to the study of both ancient medicine and social history (…) An excellent and well-written piece of work, which contributes immensely to our understanding of how disease could have been understood and experienced by the inhabitants of Ptolemaic Egypt." Michaela Senkova, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2013.09.48