Tuesday, April 21, 2026

Athens, Greece: Asclepieion of Athens

What does every city need but rarely publicize? A hospital. 

Sure enough, the people of Ancient Greece thought of that too. This was built around 418 BC at the Acropolis, perhaps in response to a plague. It served the medical needs of the people, although it's tough to say how much good the doctors of the day could do at that stage of human existence. People would come and ask the gods for healing. 

The area was changed into a Christian basilica in the sixth century AD, and all of the old monuments were destroyed.   

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