Having written extensively about the cult of
Asclepius, Ploeg here examines the Roman Empire's impact of it, looking at how Rome took over the Greek cult and how it was influenced by Rome.
Stein (Eds.), In the shadow of
Asclepius: Poems from American Medicine (p.
Asclepius was the Greek god of healing in Greek mythology, but Hammurabi was Babylonian, not Greek.
Dr Parpas also suggested that Bahrain was once a home to an ancient cult that worshipped
Asclepius, the Greek god of medicine and healing.
Others include a "No.2 Asylum" truncheon, right, painted with the rod of
Asclepius to represent healing, (PS120-PS160); and two painted respectively with the crests of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (dated 1854), and St Mary's College, Oxford (together PS150-PS250); another painted with the arms of three field guns and the initials "R.G.P.F." for the Royal Gun Powder Factory, Waltham Abbey, and another painted with "1867 Lutterworth - Feinian Riots.
Before dying, Socrates spoke his last words to Crito saying, "Crito, we owe a cock to
Asclepius. Please, don't forget to pay the debt."
The Caduceus is actually derived from
Asclepius's staff of Greek mythology, which was derived from the Nehushtan, the staff that Moses held up with a snake wrapped around it that healed all the Jews from numerous snake bites (2 Kings 18:4, Numbers 21:4-9).
Throughout his latest collection, Einstein's Beach House (2014), Appel's characters tend to wear some of the author's own and very diverse professional hats: there's the ex-attorney in the superb "La Tristresse des Herissons," the superior court judge in "Limerence," a real and a fake doctor in "The Rod of
Asclepius," a stern public health officer in "Paracosmos," and a failed linguist in the collection's titular story.
Solidly entertaining, the short stories featured are Hue and Cry; La Tristesse Des Herissons; Strings; Limerence; The Rod of
Asclepius; Sharing the Hostage; Paracosmos; and the title story Einstein's Beach House.
I begin to sing of
Asclepius, son of Apollo and healer of sicknesses.
(34) Apollo's son
Asclepius, physician-healer in his own right and father to two physician sons, was also called into service.