Annals of medical history . h century ) from thePiraeus (Old Museum, Berlin). From Eugen HollandersPlastik und Medizin, Stuttgart, F. Enke, 1912, p. 37. 44 Annals of Medicd History an Erechtheion, in which the two wereworshipped in common. In a crypt ofthis temple, Erechtheus was supposed tolive on eternally in chthonic form as aserpent. A later tradition describes him asburied in one place or another. Herewe have three characteristic stages in theprogress of a tradition: an ancient chthon-ian god, living in the depths of the earth, istransformed into a mortal hero renderedimmortal by an O

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Annals of medical history . h century ) from thePiraeus (Old Museum, Berlin). From Eugen HollandersPlastik und Medizin, Stuttgart, F. Enke, 1912, p. 37. 44 Annals of Medicd History an Erechtheion, in which the two wereworshipped in common. In a crypt ofthis temple, Erechtheus was supposed tolive on eternally in chthonic form as aserpent. A later tradition describes him asburied in one place or another. Herewe have three characteristic stages in theprogress of a tradition: an ancient chthon-ian god, living in the depths of the earth, istransformed into a mortal hero renderedimmortal by an Olympian goddess, sharingher temple; finally, a mortal hero again, heis buried in the same place. So, too, in thetemple of Apollo at Amvche in Laconia, favor, a buried mortal suppressed andsupplanted by a god. Achilles, a mortalhero in Homer, was worshipped as a god inEpirus, Astypalaea and Erythraea; at Elis,he was revered as a hero with manticpowers, and, at his annual festival, womenmourned over his empty grave at

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