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Conversations: The Intersection of Magic & Medicine, Women as Medica in the Ancient World w/ Dr. Christie Vogler

Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean

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The Art of Healing Like a Man

The title for her poem is, amelia hilaria, my mother's sister, an avow virgin. So eventually she is trained in the art of healing as a man. And some people read this as very sexes just but i think our general understanding now is that the rational kind of medicine was being practised at this point. The cult of asclepius also helps to really define medicine in this time. Because you either practise medicine as part of the priesthood to as Clepius. Or like hippocrates and galen both have claims to the cult of asClepius,. ut just to further legitimize the practice. She could be a sexual she could be a lesbian,

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