Word: asclepius
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...16th century B.C. to the 2nd century A.D. proves. For Thrace was the land whence came Orpheus, mythical musician-king who enchanted the most ferocious beasts and defied Pluto, the king of the underworld; it was the country where the Horseman--a god combining aspects of Apollo, Dionysos and Asclepius--was at once the object of popular veneration and emulation. People and culture were sufficiently influenced by neighboring Greece, Persia, Western Europe and even Scythia to create a rich variety of artifacts, and yet the Thracians and their creations have always been mysterious...
...Analysis, who began as a follower of Carl Jung, but goes far beyond him in the variety of archetypes he finds in people. "The"soul serves in its time many gods," Hillman says, and approvingly sees his patients playing out one by one the roles of Athena, Apollo, Asclepius, Eros and dozens of others...
...Crito, I owe a cock to Asclepius; will you remember to pay the debt?"-Socrates' last words...
...also Zoser's prime minister, a magician, sage, proverb maker, and patron of the scribes who ran the Egyptian bureaucracy. Century by century through Egypt's long history his reputation grew. During the Ptolemaic dynasty (323-30 B.C.), when Greeks ruled Egypt, he was identified with Asclepius, their mythical source of the healing arts; sick people limped to his shrines by the thousands to pray for miraculous cures...
Ever since primitive medicine men cast out devils with incantations and dances, music and medicine have kept up a nodding acquaintance. Asclepius, Greek god of healing, used three methods to treat the ill: drugs, surgery and "soft music." Ancient Greek Theophrastus used music to cure snakebite; Ancient Greek Pythagoras used it to treat insanity. The savage breast of many a high-strung potentate, from Saul to Hitler, has been soothed by music's charms...
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