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- - - - Sanctuary of Epidaurus
        
        used for healing
        
        offered sanctuary to those who sought it out
        
        would turn away pregnant women and those near to death because it was a sacred place and death brought about bad Miasma
        
        Priests/ Priestesses
        
        tholos
        
        The term tholos is Ancient Greek for 'circular building'
        
        subterranean maze
        
        It may have been a place where offerings were made to the gods of the underworld. Perhaps patients were left to wander the maze, potentially finding at its centre a pit of snakes. Some suggest the maze may have acted a form of shock treatment for particular psychiatric cases
        
        abaton
        
        The abaton was used as a place of incubation for worshippers.
        
        designed as a place for sleeping, so that those who had pilgramaged to consult Asclepius who be able to sleep and wait for the healing god to visit them in a dream, either showing them treatments to follow or curing them of their complaints as they slept
        
        temple of asclepius
        
        As the site plan shows, there are two altars next to the Temple of Asclepius. The earlier altar is large and would have likely been the altar used by the Greeks. The size of the altar is impressive compared to the size of the temple. It suggests that the religious ritual of the Epidaurians would seen the sacrifice of a large amount of animals, thus showing the popularity and volume of visitors of the sanctuary.
        
        temple of artemis
        
        Perhaps her significance to a sanctuary of healing is that she was the goddess of childbirth, the protector of young women, and bringing and relieving disease in women.
        
        stadium
        
        The sanctuary would have held games, i.e. footraces , chariot races, etc, in honour of Asclepius (and maybe Artemis) within the Stadium
        
        gymnasium
        
        important for maintaining health and recovery
      - incubation and worship of him brought healing
      - bringings in community aspects
    - - Erkroth "a hero can be defined as a person who had lived or died, either in myth or in real life"
      - There were Panhellenic heroes (Heracles, Ascelpius) and also Local heroes (Pelops, Erechtheus, Jason)
      - worship usually involved animal sacrifices like worship of gods
  - - - personal and public form of worhip
        
        public in the way its a procession through Athens to elusis
        
        funded by the city state of Athens
        
        must be initiated into the cult to partake
        
        Though little is known about the specifics of the ceremony (notably the secret [epopteia] shared during initiation which, if revealed [to the uninitiated], was a capital crime and as such was punishable by death)
        
        Anyone - man or woman, old or young, Greek or non-Greek, free or slave - could participate so long as they were able to speak Greek and had not been involved with any serious crimes (i.e. murder).
        
        personal gains from learning about afterlife
      - in honour of Demeter and Persephone
      - key locations include the sanctuary of Eleusis
        
        Sanctuary of Demeter and therefore a key place within the Eleusinian mysteries' Anual initiations for the cult,
        
        panhellenic worship of demeter during the
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- - - - Homer:
        
        Iliad and odyssey
        
        olympians involved with mortal world
        
        gods = capricious, but have human-like characteristics (anthropomorphised)
        
        appear in human form
        
        Comeptivie in nature with one another - Iliad Athena, Poseido, Hera for greeks and Apollo, Ares, Aphrodite for trojans
        
        héros are offspring of gods
        
        a Panhellenic influence on all greeks' views
      - Hesiod
        
        Works and Days & Theogony
        
        describes the cosmology of major and minor gods (from Gaia + Ouranos to the Olympians)
        
        Explains hierarchy of the Gods (zeus = 1)
        
        offers a moral universe, with gods overseeing human behaviour and rewarding/ punishing actions (works and days)