Archaeology Odyssey

The traditional view of epilepsy as caused by the gods is described in the Hippocratic treatise On the Sacred Disease.

For a general introduction to Greek medicine, see H. King, Greek and Roman Medicine (Bristol Classical Press, 2002).

A portion of this inscription is recounted in Edelstein, Asclepius, vol. 1, Testimony 720.

For the sanctuary at Epidauros, see Richard Allen Tomlinson, Epidauros (Austin: Univ. of Texas Press, 1983.)

See, for example, the Alcestis of Euripides and Pindar’s third Pythian ode.

The stelae are compiled and translated by Lynn LiDonnici, The Epidaurian Miracle Inscriptions (Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1995). The tale of Antikrates appears as B12 in LiDonnici’s numbering system.

The best general study of the cult remains Ludwig and Emma J. Edelstein, Asclepius (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1945; reprinted 1998).

Hornung, The Ancient Egyptian Books of the Afterlife, trans. David Lorton, (Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press, 1999), p. 13.

Hornung, The Ancient Egyptian Books of the Afterlife, trans. David Lorton, (Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press, 1999), pp. 137–147.

Hornung, The Ancient Egyptian Books of the Afterlife, trans. David Lorton, (Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press, 1999), p. 136.