The temples and ritual of Asklepios at Epidauros and AthensTwo lectures delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain . e is a restoration of the building withthe four quadrangles, only lately excavated. It is the largestbuilding yet discovered at the Hieron, being nearly 90 yardssquare. Each of the four quadrangles is surrounded by anumber of rooms. In all there were between seventy andeighty of these apartments, each of which opened into itsown quadrangle, so far as I could judge. A colonnade ranround the interior of each quadrangle. Query, what is it ?—a ASKLEPIOS AT EPIDAUROS AND ATH
The temples and ritual of Asklepios at Epidauros and AthensTwo lectures delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain . e is a restoration of the building withthe four quadrangles, only lately excavated. It is the largestbuilding yet discovered at the Hieron, being nearly 90 yardssquare. Each of the four quadrangles is surrounded by anumber of rooms. In all there were between seventy andeighty of these apartments, each of which opened into itsown quadrangle, so far as I could judge. A colonnade ranround the interior of each quadrangle. Query, what is it ?—a ASKLEPIOS AT EPIDAUROS AND ATHENS *5 gymnasium, a palasstra, a college for the priests, or a greathostel ? I confess the last-named seems the most one considers the large number of the sick who came tothe Hieron, it is obvious that extensive accommodation musthave been provided for them somewhere. The two chambersof the abaton could not have held more than 120 beds,supposing these to have been placed in two rows ; or if wesuppose the almost dark lower story of the western end tohave been a dormitory also, 180 would then have been the. PLATE XIII—North-Eastern Colonnade greatest possible accommodation. This, if the extreme numberto be entertained, scarcely accords with the accounts givenby ancient writers of the multitudes who came for healing tothe sanctuary. It appears likely, therefore, that this and otherundetermined buildings were hostels for the accommodation ofthose whose ailments were slight or who were convalescent. The remains of this curious structure are shown as seenfrom a distance in Plate XVII below i6 THE TEMPLES AND RITUAL OF 0 in Plate I is a Roman building. Cavvadias thinksthat a is the temple of Asklepios and the Egyptian Apollo. P is a building also of the Roman Period, and evidentlycontained baths. There are traces of a hypocaust. Theremains of hot air or hot water pipes are abundant, and certaincurious apse-like recesses in the walls, containing a seat andterminating
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