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Asklepios : Archetypal Image of the Physician's Existence (Archetypal Images in Greek Religion, Volume 3).
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kerényi, Carl.
- Series:
- Bollingen Series
- Standardized Title:
- Göttliche Arzt. English
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Asklepios (Greek deity).
- Asklepios.
- Aesculapius (Roman deity).
- Aesculapius.
- Genre:
- Translations
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (185 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2026.
- Summary:
- A landmark account of the divine physician of the Greeks in myth and archetype To the physicians of classical antiquity, Asklepios was the ideal of their existence as healers.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Chronological Table
- Preface
- I. Asklepios in Rome
- II. Epidauros
- III. The Sons of Asklepios on Kos
- IV. Hero Physicians and the Physician of the Gods in Homer
- V. The Origins in Thessaly
- Postscript: On Snakes and Mice in the Cults of Apollo and Asklepios
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- List of Works Cited
- Index.
- Notes:
- Translated from the German.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-691-29165-9
- 0-691-28181-5
- 9780691281810
- OCLC:
- 1581075941
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