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Author | : Bronwen L. Wickkiser |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 193 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0801889782 |
Download Asklepios, Medicine, and the Politics of Healing in Fifth-Century Greece Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Delving deeply into ancient medical history, Bronwen L. Wickkiser explores the early development and later spread of the cult of Asklepios, one of the most popular healing gods in the ancient Mediterranean. Though Asklepios had been known as a healer since the time of Homer, evidence suggests that large numbers of people began to flock to the cult during the fifth century BCE, just as practitioners of Hippocratic medicine were gaining dominance. Drawing on close readings of period medical texts, literary sources, archaeological evidence, and earlier studies, Wickkiser finds two primary causes for the cult’s ascendance: it filled a gap in the market created by the refusal of Hippocratic physicians to treat difficult chronic ailments and it abetted Athenian political needs. Wickkiser supports these challenging theories with side-by-side examinations of the medical practices at Asklepios' sanctuaries and those espoused in Hippocratic medical treatises. She also explores how Athens' aspirations to empire influenced its decision to open the city to the healer-god's cult. In focusing on the fifth century and by considering the medical, political, and religious dimensions of the cult of Asklepios, Wickkiser presents a complex, nuanced picture of Asklepios' rise in popularity, Athenian society, and ancient Mediterranean culture. The intriguing and sometimes surprising information she presents will be valued by historians of medicine and classicists alike.
Author | : Ghislaine van der Ploeg |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2018-07-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004372776 |
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In The Impact of the Roman Empire on The Cult of Asclepius Ghislaine van der Ploeg offers an analysis of the cult of Asclepius during the Roman imperial period and how worship was adapted and disseminated at this time.
Author | : Alice Walton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 154 |
Release | : 1894 |
Genre | : Aesculapius (Greek deity) |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Alice Walton |
Publisher | : Legare Street Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2022-10-27 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781015700017 |
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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author | : Alice Walton |
Publisher | : Boston : Published for the University by Ginn |
Total Pages | : 170 |
Release | : 1894 |
Genre | : Aesculapius (Greek deity) |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Alice Walton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 1965 |
Genre | : Asclepius |
ISBN | : 9780384656604 |
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Author | : Steve Friesen |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 529 |
Release | : 2010-06-14 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9004181970 |
Download Corinth in Context Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In this book, archaeologists, classicists, and specialists in Christian origins examine the social and religious life of ancient Corinth. The interdisciplinary contributions present new materials and findings on the themes of Greek and Roman identities, social stratification, and local religion.
Author | : Robin Mitchell-Boyask |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2007-12-13 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1139468235 |
Download Plague and the Athenian Imagination Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The great plague of Athens that began in 430 BCE had an enormous effect on the imagination of its literary artists and on the social imagination of the city as a whole. In this book, Professor Mitchell-Boyask studies the impact of the plague on Athenian tragedy early in the 420s and argues for a significant relationship between drama and the development of the cult of the healing god Asclepius in the next decade, during a period of war and increasing civic strife. The Athenian decision to locate their temple for Asclepius adjacent to the Theater of Dionysus arose from deeper associations between drama, healing and the polis that were engaged actively by the crisis of the plague. The book also considers the representation of the plague in Thucydides' History as well as the metaphors generated by that representation which recur later in the same work.
Author | : Olympia Panagiotidou |
Publisher | : Advances in the Cognitive Science of Religion |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2022 |
Genre | : Healing |
ISBN | : 9781800501416 |
Download Healing, Disease and Placebo in Graeco-Roman Asclepius Temples Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book follows the evidence for Asclepius' supplicants from the moment in which they realized that they were sick until the healing experiences, which they might have had at the asclepieia. From a historical perspective, the main features of the Asclepius cult, as they were shaped mainly in the Hellenistic and Roman periods, are examined. The cult is situated in the wider political, social, cultural, and intellectual contexts of the Graeco-Roman era, in which Asclepius' reputation as a divine physician spread. Social interactions and multiple neurocognitive processes are examined, which would have influenced supplicants' perceptions, choices, and reasoning about health and sickness, and attracted thousands of visitors to the Asclepius temples. The influence of the cult environment on the minds and bodies of supplicants is investigated in order to show how the cult context would have prepared supplicants for the incubation ritual. Modern theories on placebo effects are taken into consideration in order to investigate the possibility of healing at the asclepieia as a result of supplicants' self-healing mechanisms. Finally, the ways in which supplicants might have interpreted their personal experiences during incubation are examined.
Author | : Emma J. Edelstein |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 796 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780801857690 |
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Legendary ancient Greek physician and healer god Asclepius was considered the foremost antagonist of Christ. Providing an overview of all facets of the Asclepius phenomenon, this work, first published in two volumes in 1945, comprises a unique collection of the literary references and inscriptions in ancient texts to Asclepius, his life, his deeds, cult, temples--with extended analysis thereof.