078 - Healing and Medicine

In this episode, we discuss healing and medicine in the ancient Greek world by looking at Asklepios, Asklepieia, and the earliest physicians; Hippocrates, the Hippocratic School of Medicine, and the Hippocratic 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)

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