A singular archeology and history lesson was placed in the ancient site Askleipiou of Ancient Corinth

In the rainy athumn Saturday of September 7 an interesting happening took place at the archaeological site of Ancient Corinth askleipiou. The scholar Sofia Dascalopoulos organized a historical tour on how the treatment became in ancient times with the help of archaeologist Julia Johns, Deputy excavations of ancient Corinth as well as other factors topioous (chorodous, amateur actors, etc.). The singular lesson that archeology and history was in the ancient site Askleipiou and will be repeated 8 and 29 September in 2013.

 

In ancient Greece and Rome, an asclepeion (or asklepieion,Greek: Ἀσκληπιεῖον -Ἀσκλαπιεῖον in Doric dialect, Latin aesculapīum) was a healing temple, sacred to the god Asclepius. Asclepius may first have been worshipped as a hero in Trikka, Thessaly, which ancient mythographers generally regarded as the place of his birth, but to date archaeological excavations have yet to uncover his sanctuary there. Epidauros, on the other hand, was the first place to worship Asclepius as a god, beginning sometime in the 400s BC.