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Asclepius
Evidence
Sanctuary at at Epidavros
Abaton
unapproachable building
put to sleep (drugs) for a night
Tholos
Round building
Called Thymele
Perhaps a snake pit?
Garland - Tomb of Asclepius?
Temple of Asclepius
Seperate Epidavros
Theatre
Stadion
Dedications
Lots of body parts
Leg from Tyche
From Melos 1st Century AD
Inscriptions
Cleo
Pregnant for 5 years
Gives birth a son
Adoption maybe?
Ambrosia
Blind in one eye
Dedicates a silver pig for her cynicism
A man with an eye socket and no eye
Could see in the morning
Surgical Instruments
Artefact in a museum
Passage from Aristophanes wealth
Set at Asclepion in ATHENS
Garland page 94
Myth
Apollo and Coronis
Coronis cheats on Apollo
Killed by Artemis
Caesarian Birth - Apollo rescues baby Asclepius
Cheiron
Illiad
sons are medics/healers
Taught him healing
Thunderbolt
Punished by Zeus for raising the dead
promoted to full deity
Even during 5th Century Grows in stature
2 daughters
Panacea
Goddess of Universal Remedy
Hygeia
Hygeine
Epidavros
Apollo Maleatas
500BC onwards - Flourished in the 4th Century
Athens plague 420s, made the rounds of the entire Greek world?
Cult at athens Cos
Perhaps up to 200 sanctuaries
Unusual to have a network of cults
Theoroi - sacred ambassadors
Sent out by Epidavros to promote new cults
Like apostles
Garland says this is a change
What happens
Sacrifice
Bath
Spend a night in the Abaton
Priests might visit you
Called incubation
See the god in your dream and be provided a cure?
Or a visit from a sacred snake?
Garland likes it to Lordes
Claims it might be faith healing
We only get inscriptions from successful cures
What happens if they die?
Miracles
Miracles prove deity
Amphiaraos
those seeking cures slept on a sacrificed ram skin
In the Koimeterion
one of fourteen gods and heroes
In attica
Oropos
Has Baths
Hygeine