Word: asclepius
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
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