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    Asclepieion (redirect from Asclepeion)
    Asclepieia (Ancient Greek: Ἀσκληπιεῖον Asklepieion; Ἀσκλαπιεῖον in Doric dialect; Latin aesculapīum) were healing temples in ancient Greece (and in the...
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    subsequently immortalized as a star. The most ancient and the most prominent asclepeion (or healing temple) according to the geographer of the 1st century BC...
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    Hadrian's Temple of Asclepius and Serapis, the small healing pools of an Asclepeion, the second of the two large pools, and the dam between them. It was discovered...
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    Epidaurus in north-eastern Peloponnese. Another famous healing temple (or asclepeion) was located on the island of Kos, where Hippocrates, the legendary "father...
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    bathe naked in the sea at Eleusis. The painting was displayed in the Asclepeion on the island of Kos. The Aphrodite Anadyomene went unnoticed for centuries...
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    ancient Greece, temples dedicated to the healer-god Asclepius, known as Asclepeion functioned as centers of medical advice, prognosis, and healing. The Asclepeia...
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    mapped 140 ancient arenas across Greece. The prosperity brought by the asclepeion enabled Epidaurus to construct civic monuments, including the huge theatre...
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    term λούειν, louein, which is the word typically used of washing in an Asclepeion, rather than the more ordinary Greek word νίπτειν, niptein, used elsewhere...
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    stoas, a temple to Apollo at Alisarna, construction and expansion of the Asclepeion, fortification works at Alisarna and multiple richly decorated houses...
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    Operating theater Orderly Patients Pharmacy Wards Archaic forms Almshouse Asclepeion (Greece) Bimaristan (Islamic) Cottage hospital (England) Hôtel-Dieu (France)...
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    said to Mnemosyne as the supplicant moved to the holiest portion of the Asclepeion to incubate. The hope was that a prayer to Mnemosyne would help the supplicant...
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  • Operating theater Orderly Patients Pharmacy Wards Archaic forms Almshouse Asclepeion (Greece) Bimaristan (Islamic) Cottage hospital (England) Hôtel-Dieu (France)...
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    primary temples were in Epidaurus, Corinth, Cos and Pergamon. At the Asclepeion of Titane in Sicyon (founded by Alexanor, Asclepius' grandson), the Greek...
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    Operating theater Orderly Patients Pharmacy Wards Archaic forms Almshouse Asclepeion (Greece) Bimaristan (Islamic) Cottage hospital (England) Hôtel-Dieu (France)...
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    name "Nodens", following Sir Mortimer Wheeler's unearthing of a Roman Asclepeion at Lydney Park, Gloucestershire, in 1928. In the 1920s, Tolkien undertook...
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    Operating theater Orderly Patients Pharmacy Wards Archaic forms Almshouse Asclepeion (Greece) Bimaristan (Islamic) Cottage hospital (England) Hôtel-Dieu (France)...
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  • Operating theater Orderly Patients Pharmacy Wards Archaic forms Almshouse Asclepeion (Greece) Bimaristan (Islamic) Cottage hospital (England) Hôtel-Dieu (France)...
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    its importance in the development and spread of healing sanctuaries (asclepeion) throughout Classical Antiquity. The 2nd century AD geographer Pausanias...
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  • Operating theater Orderly Patients Pharmacy Wards Archaic forms Almshouse Asclepeion (Greece) Bimaristan (Islamic) Cottage hospital (England) Hôtel-Dieu (France)...
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    Ancient Messene Αρχαία Μεσσήνη Community View of the ancient Asclepeion. Ancient Messene Coordinates: 37°10.5′N 21°55.2′E / 37.1750°N 21.9200°E / 37...
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    at age 16 began his studies at the prestigious local healing temple or asclepeion as a θεραπευτής (therapeutes, or attendant) for four years. There he came...
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  • Operating theater Orderly Patients Pharmacy Wards Archaic forms Almshouse Asclepeion (Greece) Bimaristan (Islamic) Cottage hospital (England) Hôtel-Dieu (France)...
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  • Operating theater Orderly Patients Pharmacy Wards Archaic forms Almshouse Asclepeion (Greece) Bimaristan (Islamic) Cottage hospital (England) Hôtel-Dieu (France)...
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    Archaeological Zone of Kos town Ruins of the Ancient Gymnasion View of the Asclepeion View of the ancient Odeon Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas...
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    Operating theater Orderly Patients Pharmacy Wards Archaic forms Almshouse Asclepeion (Greece) Bimaristan (Islamic) Cottage hospital (England) Hôtel-Dieu (France)...
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    Operating theater Orderly Patients Pharmacy Wards Archaic forms Almshouse Asclepeion (Greece) Bimaristan (Islamic) Cottage hospital (England) Hôtel-Dieu (France)...
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    AD. Among Bergama's notable ruins are the Sanctuary of Asclepius (or Asclepeion), a temple dedicated to an ancient Greek god of healing, a Greek Theater...
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  • Asclepius, Augusta Treverorum Temple of Aesculapius (Villa Borghese) Asclepeion Asclepius (disambiguation) This disambiguation page lists articles associated...
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    and the ancient city of Kameiros. On the nearby island of Kos is the Asclepeion, the ruins of one of the greatest healing temples of the Ancient World...
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    several of the requirements of institutions created for healing. In the Asclepeion of Epidaurus, three large marble boards dated to 350 BCE preserve the...
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