078 - Healing, Medicine, and Disease

In this episode, we discuss healing and medicine in the ancient Greek world by looking at Asklepios, his healing sanctuaries known as Asklepieia, and the earliest physicians, including Hippokrates of Kos, the Hippokratic School of Medicine, and the Hippokratic Corpus; and bacterial/viral diseases, mental diseases, and disabilities

Supplementary Resources (Videos, Photos, Other Podcasts)

Video/Asclepius: The Greek God of Medicine (Kings and Things)

 

Video/Asclepius: The First Necromancer (Monarchs Factory)

 

Video/Hygieia, Asclepius, and the Ancient Greek Deities of Healing (AH Encyclopedia)

Photo/Statue of Asklepios at Epidauros

Photo/Statue of Hygieia

Photo/Relief of Asklepios and Hygieia

Photo/Vase Painting of Iaso

Photo/Statue of Podalirius

Photo/Drawing of Rod of Asklepios

Photo/Asklepeion at Epidauros (Panoramic View)

Photo/Asklepeion on Kos

Photo/Mosaic of Hippocrates on Floor of Asklepeion on Kos

Photo/Drawing of a Roman Bust of Hippocrates

Photo/Earliest Papyrus Fragment of Hippocratic Oath

Photo/Vase Painting of Physician and Patient

Photo/Reconstruction of Greek Surgical Instruments

Photo/Reconstruction of Hippocratic Bench

Video/Ancient Medicine, Healing and Physicians in Antiquity (AH Encyclopedia)

Video/Ancient & Medieval Medicine (Crash Course)

Video/What Causes Seizures, and How Can We Treat Them? (Ted-Ed)

Video/Mental Illness in the Ancient World (Classical Wisdom)

Video/Disability in Ancient Greece (Peopling the Past)

Video/Paleo-oncology (Peopling the Past)

Recommended Podcast Episodes:

***Ancient History Hound - Beards, Anesthetic, and Prostitutes in Antiquity

***Ancient History Hound - STIs in Antiquity (Part I)

***Ancient History Hound - STIs in Antiquity (Part II)

***Ancients - The Birth of Physiology

***Ancients - An Ancient Guide to Healthy Living

***Ancients - Prosthetics in Antiquity

***Delicious Legacy - Humoral Theory and Dietetics

***Delicious Legacy - Pork as Medicine in the Ancient and Medieval World

***Greek Myth Files - Mythical Plagues

***Greek Myth Files - Death, Dying and Healing in Greek Myth and Religion

***Greek Myth Files - The World Is Out To Get You, Human

***History Hack - Fake Medical History and the Ancient World

***History of Philosophy - Good Humor Men: the Hippocratics

***Partial Historians - Disability in Ancient Greece

***You're Dead to Me - Ancient Greek and Roman Medicine