By the end of the fifth century BC, Asklepios was established and flourishing as the main healing deity of the Greeks. However, just a few centuries earlier, he featured in the Iliad as a mortal doctor, not a god. The Greeks had to wait until the classical period before they could seek individual, divine assistance for illnesses and pain, and Asklepios examines the way in which the god fulfilled this role. Asklepios had very little interaction with...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0415741777
ISBN13:9780415741774
Release Date:May 2027
Publisher:Routledge
Length:296 Pages
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