CLAS 203 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Asclepius, Acrisius, Goat Cheese
4 Aug 2016
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Take the shape of the part of the body that the person desired to be cured. Hygieia personification of health and one of the daughters of asclepios. Some- times the ex-votos would be offered to her too: popularity of him endured into the roman period. Only with the rise of christianity that the cult of asclepios slowly lost ground to that religion: in the 4th century, constantine personally saw to the destruction of the famous temple of asclepios. But the practice of incubation was carried on until much later. An oracle pre- dicts to acrisius that he will be killed by the son of the daughter of proetus: proetus has a daughter called danae. Acrisius locks danae in a room in his palace: zeus appears to danae in the form of golden rain to enter the room and seduces her in her chamber, danae becomes pregnant.
