Africa clucks stories about people making a difference shaping their nation eleven and their continent. On his new multimedia series for africa. Dot com click on the most. The tell you live epidaurus begins like sam any of the mythical stories of greece with the beautiful woman and a god in love then it was. He was upon a god of the mirrors of. Sheba. Her childhood lovely its where epidaurus is now and she abandoned. A herd of goats gave the infant food herdsmans dog protected and kept it. And when the goats head went looking for his goats he found the child surrounded with bright light the infant was. Got of healing but although he was a god he was destined to die. Zeus struck him down with a thunderbolt because he raised the dead escapee as lives on in the sacred simple. There was a cultic site here in very early times. First a hero named money utters was worshiped here. Then apollo and when the cult of asklepios spread in greece in the fifth century b. C. The sun came to be worshiped alongside his father apollo and finally supplanted him apollo had been the god of all the arts including the art of healing asklepios was the god of therapeutic healing alone in the fourth century b. C. The sanctuary became a pilgrim site and Healing Center a lot of the ancient world nowadays tourists the pilgrims of our times come here less for the remains of that sanctuary than to see the best preserved of ancient greek theatres one of the principal tourist sites in greece and who can blame them to see in a field of stones the center of a great sanctuary requires a powerful imagination. The temple of escape yes with its votive shines the abbotts on the whole set apart for therapeutic sleep and the thoughts and it magic secular build. Time has cost down and most of the spends at the door as was devastated by earthquakes in five twenty two and five fifty one eighty. Six. The museum conveys an impression of the sanctuarys ancient splenda the little that survives is exhibited that. The pilgrims of old came from the north. Here in the proper lawn they entered the sacred area which was subject to its own law office in front of the sanctuary was an ancient wellspring. A water conduit and the basin where the pilgrims were expected to wash. An inscription on one stone reads you must be cleansed pure if you are to enter the incense fragrant house of the god. The pilgrims waited in the problem until a group had gathered. And. Then led by the priests of a scrappy as they proceeded down the sacred street to the Central Square where the temple of asklepios stood and the avatar and focus. A melancholy procession it must have been as they hobbled limped and coughed their way into the sanctions men and women young and old most of them hopeful some of them skeptical and some of them veterans of other a scampi a shrines where the god had failed to cure their ills people who are now trying again in this famous place. Some were supported by companions others went in on crutches all stripped. All of them had brought animals to be sacrificed. As to the guy the wealthy brought in oxen the poor brought allowed for adults. In front of the temple of the skep ias they have to wash once again and then one after another they were admitted to the priest who presided over the sacrifices they presented their animals which he slaughtered at the open air altar outside the temple the sacred right was performed by priests on an altar in the center of the square. The pilgrims that now being received into the sanctuary they prayed in the temple and lay down to sleep in the laboratory. This is all that remains of the temple of asklepios foundations walls the bases of votive shrines. Pose anias a greek writer of the second century a. D. Left a description of the Temple Building was begun in four twenty b. C. It was in the dark style and students three steps above ground level a little of the pediment freeness has survived the freeze may have looked like this a backing singer. I think. Atop the temple stood a statue of nike the victory goddess thanks to computer animation we can now enter a reconstruction of the temple. As was the statue of asklepios sculpted by transit medias of paris showing the god with the sacred simple and the goat heads dont. Feel. I am let us go on from the temple to the from us. Beneath this wonderful secular building there were three interlinked rings of will spike a leverage. That one can say what purpose the building sent. To some. To rein in dwelling of the sacred sentence perhaps. To the priest to the scrappiness descend with the sick into the labyrinth to the underworld and leave the net to discover the secrets of recovery themselves. We shall never know. We continue from the farmhouse to the avatar if the function of the tunnel sounded sumpter randian complex remains unclear the average tongue and the cult of therapeutic sleep are profoundly mysterious. The pilgrims would reportedly see the goddess crappiest on their first night and he would explain the therapy to. Day in fact seeing masked priests visiting the patients by night. And what part did the sacred serpents play. Did they really suck the sickness out of the patients bodies. The cure certainly seems to have worked. This man is offering an enormous leg to the day at tea in gratitude for being healed. They have a ton adapted orus is now being reconstructed original stones that have survived being incorporated. A stadium was an essential feature of greek sanker places every four years competitive games were held here in the name of the day it as a dylan p. A or delfi. And then of course theres the famous the it built in the third and second centuries b. C. It originally had a capacity of six thousand two hundred later it was extended to accommodate Twelve Thousand three hundred. The theatre didnt merely set to entertain patients for the greeks theatre played an important part in the healing process the tales of guilt and a tone meant told by tragedy were intended to touch and purify the human spirit by making the audience identify with both the guilt and the expiation with the entire course of faith. Great doctors distinguished four levels of therapy first tragedy followed by proper nutrition then Medicinal Plants and finally the said jins not. Today the theater of epidaurus with its magnificent acoustics is once again being used for performances. What drives the economy. To see it come to. 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