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Episode CXXXIV - Roman Health and Medicine

Emperors of Rome

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What's the Spiritual Side of Medicine?

In rome, there were a whole range of gods that were thought to be particularly effective at healing. So people could make sacrifices to or requests of any god. Apollo medicus is perhaps the first of the greek gods that we hear about coming to Rome. Many hundreds of years later, his son, asclepius, is brought over again from greece. A delegation sent to epidaurus, epidevrus, to day where there's a temple to esclepius. And this delegation got es Clepius himself in the guise of a snake, brought him back to rome on the boat and slivered off the boat several times. But finally lands on

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