Temple of Asklepios |Myth| Epidavros
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- čas přidán 8. 09. 2024
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In the cella stood the cult statue of Asklepios, work of the Parian sculptor Thrasymedes. Housed there too was the thesauros of the temple, a special construction in the floor. This was the Treasury for safekeeping the temple’s moveable property and precious votive offerings of devotees of the god.
With regard to the external decoration of the temple, the ensemble of sculptures on the pediments is considered one of the best examples of synthesis of sculpture and architecture. Represented on the east pediment was the Fall of Troy (Iliupersis) and on the west the battle between Greeks and Amazons (Amazonomachy).
Nothing has survived of the statue of Asklepios. Only scant remnants of the temple are preserved, as it was built of soft poros limestone and, moreover, it must have been destroyed in the earthquake of the fifth century AD. The extant architectural members are kept in the Epidavros Archaeological Museum, while on the monument itself conservation work has been carried out on the foundations.
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It's absolutely incomprehensible that certain "experts" still totally misunderstand and misrepresent the medical science and medical practices of Antiquity, most probably brought over from Egypt by the Pythagorean school that was present in the Asklepieion of Epidauria, as being some kind of "holy" hocus-pocus or "sacred magic". In other words: It simply takes some understanding of how Ancient Greeks perceived science and the world around them to see through the metaphors that they used to explain things like real anaesthesia to the general public by calling it a "dream state", or an injection or surgical incision by calling it a snake bite. In the 11 (eleven!) centuries that the very first and largest medical centre of Antiquity (and actually the largest one until the modest "hospitals" of the Late Middle Ages in NW Europe were born) functioned, not a single one of its hundreds of thousands of patients was ever healed by a dream or by a snake bite, and certainly not by hocus-pocus or magic. The "dream stelae" contain metaphors, like so many other texts in Ancient Greece, and should not be read, understood, and certainly not be explained as is done here. There is tons of proof (archaeological objects such as surgical tools, the existence of medical libraries, laboratories, and academies, texts talking about actual surgeries being performed by actual physicians, etc.) to show that the scientific methods, which the Pythagorean school and its successors used in the Asklepieion in Epidauria, were far more advanced than anything called medical until the end of the 19th century or even later. Unless you believe that during more than a millennium those hundreds of thousands of patients were healed by auto-suggestion, by dreaming, and by holy hocus-pocus of priests perfumed by incense. Of course, patients having gone through a surgery with the necessary anaesthesia (opium and derivatives...) would "dream", would "see things" when they slowly woke up from their "dream state". That is, also quite obviously, why the Abaton (literally translated "the place where nobody walks into") or Enkoimeterion ("the place where one is put asleep") are nothing else but the place where patients were "put to sleep", i.e. were given anaesthesia, and were brought to after their surgery, to slowly wake up whilst seeing strange things, under surveillance of medical staff. The patients would not be able to walk out of nor into the Abaton, because they were brought there on stretchers. This simple, plain, non-magical reading of the metaphors also explains why Asklepios was told to have been able to bring people back to life. Some patients went into coma, others were anaesthetised. When they woke up, it would seem to all those who had not studied medical science, that they were raised from the dead. I cannot understand that some who call themselves scientists today, some 1600 years after Theodosios II, in the name of a totally abstract god of love and compassion, brutally and savagely destroyed and burned all medical centres in Ancient Greece, all libraries, all academies, all scientific institutions, and all temples and temple statues (not to mention the fact that he murdered all those who resisted and refused to believe in this abstract god), still present the medical achievements of Antiquity as some kind of magical make-belief hocus-pocus. The Asklepieion in Epidauria was the first, the most important, and the longest existing medical centre in Europe. It had real doctors, real surgeries, real medical books, real patients. And it was based on the wise concept of holistic medicine, something that today's Western medical science unfortunately still does not adhere to.
PS: The Asklepieion in Epidauria, just as most other important sites, medical centres, sanctuaries, and temples of Ancient Greece, was destroyed by the troops of Theodosios II around 425-426 CE (remember Ancient Olympia...?). The Asklepieion in Epidauria, just as many other sites, was often struck by earthquakes in its long history, and vandalised a couple of times also (the Romans, the Goths...), but it was always rebuilt and could take up its function very quickly after those disasters. However, the final and most violent and destructive blow was given by Theodosios II, for purposes of religious extremism. Shortly after, a Christian church was built on the site, not far from the Northern Propylaia, to "clean" the site from its "pagan" origins, just like in Ancient Olympia the workshop of Pheidias was turned into a basilica. Not an earthquake but man is the greatest destructor, and always out of stupidity and fear.
You show make your own video about this very interesting.
God, doesn't bring just love and compassion , but also divine justice, the greeks for all their worldly knowledge knew of the potential of a god knowing all sciences, but sinned anyway...
That's saying it was even god and not just Theodosius using the Christian guise to make war with all the other social Christians
@@FackitAllman In order to help you cure yourself from all the brainwashing and delusions about any god bringing love and compassion to those who give themselves the privilege of thinking they are better than others of their species, and justice in the form of genocide, massive destruction, and terrorism to those who do not wish to be brainwashed and enslaved by any dogmatic and delusional belief system, it is probably wise to tell you that there are currently some 5,000 (five thousand) gods and goddesses worshipped on this planet. What proof is there that only yours is right?
I hope you develop an interest in making videos, because you have a knowledge and interest that the interwebz and humanity are sorely lacking.
Absolutely amazing!!!
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who is this knowledgeable narrator ? what educational association ? why no info .. excellent talk
btw my original comments all missing ???