Asclepion: Greek
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- Created on: 27-04-17 17:43
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- Asclepion
- Built in Greece
- Greeks also believed that God sent and could cure diseases.
- Asclepius, god of Healing.
- Characteristics
- Abaton: patient goes to sleep and dreams of Asclepius visiting you with his two daughters -Panacea and Hygeia (Hygiene and Remedy)
- snakes would come and lick.
- Temple of Asclepius: Offer sacrifices
- gymnasium and stadium
- Baths: wash away all your sins
- Abaton: patient goes to sleep and dreams of Asclepius visiting you with his two daughters -Panacea and Hygeia (Hygiene and Remedy)
- If you were not cured you were told to go away and come back when your faith is much stronger.
- Established also in Rome as a last resort to a plague
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