The temples and ritual of Asklepios at Epidauros and AthensTwo lectures delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain . e noblest works of Greek artcould make it ; moreover large and lofty trees formed a shadygrove, protecting from the suns heat, while the soft breeze andthe sweet pure air of the mountains formed in themselves apotent agency for the restoration of health. The patient hadmuch around him to please and interest—beautiful buildings,rich with sculpture and with colour, statuary figures and groups ASKLEPIOS AT EPIDAUROS AND ATHENS 33 representing Asklepios and other divinities
The temples and ritual of Asklepios at Epidauros and AthensTwo lectures delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain . e noblest works of Greek artcould make it ; moreover large and lofty trees formed a shadygrove, protecting from the suns heat, while the soft breeze andthe sweet pure air of the mountains formed in themselves apotent agency for the restoration of health. The patient hadmuch around him to please and interest—beautiful buildings,rich with sculpture and with colour, statuary figures and groups ASKLEPIOS AT EPIDAUROS AND ATHENS 33 representing Asklepios and other divinities or subjects from theold Greek mythology in marble and bronze. Plate XXVI represents a head of Asklepios (from theAsklepieion at the Piraeus), to which the genius of the sculptorhas given an expression of sorrow and sympathy, as though thegod were grieving over the sufferings of mankind. Plate XXVII shows a full-length figure of the god, foundat Epidauros, accompanied as usual by the serpent. Artisticreliefs, hermae, and full-length figures of noted priests andphysicians, and of individuals eminent in art, philosophy,. PLATE XXVIII—Shelter-seat literature, or history ; also ex-votos, stelce, and tablets recordingthe marvellous cures effected by the god, coloured bas-reliefs,encaustic paintings, shrines, exedra?, decorative vases and fount-ains, beautified and added interest to the precinct. Shelter-seats, arranged in semicircles, of beautiful whitemarble, were so placed as to avoid sun or wind ; they wereconvenient for converse, or for listening to a reader or amusician. 34 THE TEMPLES AND RITUAL OK Plates XXVIII and XXIX represent the remains of twoof these seats at the Hieron ; close to the former is seen a largepedestal on which probably an equestrian statue formerly stood. Many shrines and chapels to subsidiary deities existed, as,for example, to Hygieia, Themis, the Egyptian Apollo, Helios,Selene, Epione (the wife of Asklepios), Zeus, Poseidon, Min-erva, Hera, Demeter
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