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Asklepios, medicine, and the politics of healing in fifth-century Greece : between craft and cult / Bronwen L. Wickkiser.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wickkiser, Bronwen Lara, 1969-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Asklepios (Greek deity).
- Asklepios.
- Medicine, Greek and Roman.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 178 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore : The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.
- Contents:
- Common Perceptions of Asklepios and His Cult 2
- The Current Project 7
- 1 From Practice to Profession: The Development of Greek Medicine from the Bronze Age to the Fifth Century BC 10
- The Bronze Age and Homer 11
- Between Homer and Hippocrates 14
- Tradition and Change in Fifth-Century Medicine 18
- Medicine as a Techne 22
- Medicine and Its Limits 23
- 2 Searching for a Cure: The Limits of Medicine and the Development of Asklepios' Cult 30
- Alternatives to Medicine: What Doctors Condoned 30
- Healing Gods 33
- The Early Development of Asklepios' Cult 35
- The Popularity of Asklepios and His Healing 37
- 3 Asklepios and His Colleagues: Doctors and Divine Healers 42
- Asklepios as Doctor in Myth and Cult 44
- Other Healing Gods and Heroes 50
- Doctors and Their Patron God 53
- Asklepios' Specialization: Chronic Ailments 58
- 4 Documenting Asklepios' Arrival in Athens 62
- Description, Text, and Translation of the Telemachos Monument 67
- Reading between the Lines 71
- The Eleusinian Cult of Demeter and Kore 72
- The Location of Asklepios' Sanctuary 75
- 5 Asklepios and the Topography of Athenian Cult 77
- The Acropolis and the Greater Panathenaia 78
- Dionysos and Demeter 80
- Dionysos Eleuthereus and the City Dionysia 82
- The Sanctuary of Dionysos Eleuthereus 84
- The City Dionysia 85
- Eleusinian Demeter and the Mysteries 87
- 6 Asklepios and Athenian Empire 90
- Epidauros and Athens in the Peloponnesian Wars 90
- The Peace of Nicias and Epidaurian Asklepios 93
- Athens, Cults, and Politics in the Fifth Century 94
- Negotiating Empire 97
- Asklepios and the Kerykes in 418 BC 101
- Mapping Meaning: The Epidauria Procession 101.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [153]-169) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780801889783
- 0801889782
- OCLC:
- 187300382
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