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Asclepieia (Ancient Gr****: Ἀσκληπιεῖον Asklepieion; Ἀσκλαπιεῖον in
Doric dialect;
Latin aesculapīum) were
healing temples in
ancient Greece (and in the...
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subsequently immortalized as a star. The most
ancient and the most
prominent asclepeion (or
healing temple)
according to the
geographer of the 1st
century BC...
- Hadrian's
Temple of
Asclepius and Serapis, the
small healing pools of an
Asclepeion, the
second of the two
large pools, and the dam
between them. It was discovered...
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Epidaurus in north-eastern Peloponnese.
Another famous healing temple (or
asclepeion) was
located on the
island of Kos,
where Hippocrates, the
legendary "father...
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ancient Greece,
temples dedicated to the healer-god Asclepius,
known as
Asclepeion functioned as
centers of
medical advice, prognosis, and healing. The Asclepeia...
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Mnemosyne as the
supplicant moved to the
holiest portion of the
Asclepeion to incubate. The hope was that a
prayer to
Mnemosyne would help the supplicant...
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mapped 140
ancient arenas across Greece. The
prosperity brought by the
asclepeion enabled Epidaurus to
construct civic monuments,
including the huge theatre...
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primary temples were in Epidaurus, Corinth, Cos and Pergamon. At the
Asclepeion of
Titane in
Sicyon (founded by Alexanor, Asclepius' grandson), the Gr****...
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Operating theater Orderly Patients Pharmacy Wards Archaic forms Almshouse Asclepeion (Greece)
Bimaristan (Islamic)
Cottage hospital (England) Hôtel-Dieu (France)...
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bathe naked in the sea at Eleusis. The
painting was displa**** in the
Asclepeion on the
island of Kos. The
Aphrodite Anadyomene went
unnoticed for centuries...
