Endnote 17 - Asklepios Appears in a Dream
Recounted in Edelstein, Asclepius, vol. 1, Testimony 432.
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Endnote 16 - Asklepios Appears in a Dream
Recounted in Edelstein, Asclepius, vol. 1, Testimony 428.
Endnote 15 - Asklepios Appears in a Dream
Aristophanes, Wealth, trans. Stephen Halliwell, in Aristophanes: Birds, Lysistrata, Assembly-Women, Wealth (Clarendon Press, 1991), ll. 716–738.
Endnote 14 - Asklepios Appears in a Dream
When doctors treated dropsy, which they thought was an accumulation of water, they recommended dry and acrid foods so that the patient would pass more water and thus rebalance the body’s fluids. This is prescribed in the Hippocratic treatise Regimen in Acute Diseases, 20.
Endnote 13 - Asklepios Appears in a Dream
LiDonnici B1 (see note 2). Incubation by proxy was highly unusual.
Endnote 12 - Asklepios Appears in a Dream
Pliny, Natural History 29.
Endnote 11 - Asklepios Appears in a Dream
Theocritus, Epigram 8.
Endnote 10 - Asklepios Appears in a Dream
On the relationship between doctors and Asklepios, see Owesi Temkin, Hippocrates in the World of Pagans and Christians (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1991), esp. ch. 14.
Endnote 9 - Asklepios Appears in a Dream
On Art 8.12.
Endnote 8 - Asklepios Appears in a Dream
For information on Hippocrates and the Hippocratic corpus, see Jacques Jouanna, Hippocrates (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1999).
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