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Asklepios

Asklepios

Dillon, Matthew

Hardcover

Series: Gods and Heroes of the Ancient World

Ancient History General

PREORDER - Expected ship date December 3, 2029

ISBN10: 0415741777
ISBN13: 9780415741774
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Dec 3 2029
Pages: 296
Language: English

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 other gods and heroes; he is largely devoid of myth: he came too late to be incorporated into the great epics, or to take on the attributes and conquests of local hero divinities such as Herakles - his focus was on the world of mortals. His was the most 'personal' of all Greek cults, and he was the one and only god who routinely had an individual relationship with his worshippers. In no other cult was an epiphany of the god sought as a regular and intrinsic but most importantly essential part of the god's worship.

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