The temples and ritual of Asklepios at Epidauros and AthensTwo lectures delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain . d in the Tiber has, throughpagan and Christian times alike, been devoted to the cure andtreatment of the sick. The stern of the stone galley stillexists, with the effigy of the serpent and remains of the imageof iEsculapius. The Church of St. Bartholomew stands on thesite of the temple, and on or near the spot where stood theancient abaton now stands a hospital served by the Brotherhoodof San Juan de Dios, the benevolent saint of Granada, wherethe sick folk of Rome are
The temples and ritual of Asklepios at Epidauros and AthensTwo lectures delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain . d in the Tiber has, throughpagan and Christian times alike, been devoted to the cure andtreatment of the sick. The stern of the stone galley stillexists, with the effigy of the serpent and remains of the imageof iEsculapius. The Church of St. Bartholomew stands on thesite of the temple, and on or near the spot where stood theancient abaton now stands a hospital served by the Brotherhoodof San Juan de Dios, the benevolent saint of Granada, wherethe sick folk of Rome are helped and tended ; and there, unlike 46 THE TEMPLES AND RITUAL OF their predecessors of 2,200 years ago, if illness should ter-minate in death, the poor weary souls are kindly and tenderlyministered to by priest, physician, and nurse, until they sinkinto the last sleep. It is doubtless in consequence of this episode of the found-ing of a temple of TEsculapius on the island of the Tiber thatthe staff and serpent of the Epidaurian god have been, andremain to this day, the symbol of the profession of LIST OF AUTHORITIES Baunack (J.) Aus Epidauros 1890 (E^/ie/Mf, 1884) 1884 — Studien Zu den Inschriften aus Epidauros (Pbilologus, 54) 1895Blinkenberg (C.) Asklepios og hans Fraender Inscriptions dEpidaure (Nordisk Tidsskrift for Filologi og Padagogik, 1895) 8°., Copenhagen, 1895 Brunn ( .) Der Thron des Asklepios zu Epidauros (Sitzungsb. der pbilosoph. pbilolog. u. bis tor. Classe d. k. b. Akad. der Wissenscb. zu Miincben, 1872) 8°., Munchen, 1872 Cavvadias (P.) AeA-nV apxaioXoyiKov, 1891 R^ii/nep)*; ApxdiuXuyiKii, I 894 Fouilles dEpidaure, vol. i. fo., Athenes, 1893 I o iepov tov Aittioi> ev F,TrtSavpw KCH >/ Qepairelatuiv aaQevw. 8°., Athenes, 1900 Inscriptions dEpidaure (E(/»] Apxuio\oyiK>/, 1883,1886) 40., Athenes, 1883-86 Monuments dEpidaure (EtpujfiepU ApxuioXoytKi/ 1884-85) TlpaKTiKa Tiji ApxmoX. Eraipiu^ 1881-82-83- 84, etc. Rapport
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