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ΛΗΣΣΑ (Αρχαία πόλη) ΑΣΚΛΗΠΙΕΙΟ
On the straight road to Epidaurus is a village Lessa, in which is a temple of Athena with a wooden image exactly like the one on the citadel Larisa. Above Lessa is Mount Arachnaeus.(Paus. 2.25.10)
At Lessa the Argive territory joins that of Epidaurus(2.26.1)
ΑΡΑΧΝΑΙΟ (Βουνό) ΑΣΚΛΗΠΙΕΙΟ
On the straight road to Epidaurus is a village Lessa, in which is a temple of Athena with a wooden image exactly like the one on the citadel Larisa. Above Lessa is Mount Arachnaeus, which long ago, in the time of Inachus, was named Sapyselaton (σαπύς+έλατον). On it are altars to Zeus and Hera. When rain is needed they sacrifice to them here. At Lessa the Argive territory joins that of Epidaurus(2.25.10-26.1)
ΑΣΚΛΗΠΙΕΙΟ ΕΠΙΔΑΥΡΟΥ (Αρχαίο ιερό) ΑΡΓΟΛΙΔΑ
The sacred grove of Asclepius is surrounded on all sides by boundary
marks. No death or birth takes place within the enclosure the same custom prevails
also in the island of Delos. All the offerings, whether the offerer be one of
the Epidaurians themselves or a stranger, are entirely consumed within the bounds.
At Titane too, I know, there is the same rule.
The image of Asclepius is, in size, half as big as the Olympian Zeus
at Athens, and is made of ivory and gold. An inscription tells us that the artist
was Thrasymedes, a Parian, son of Arignotus. The god is sitting on a seat grasping
a staff; the other hand he is holding above the head of the serpent; there is
also a figure of a dog lying by his side. On the seat are wrought in relief the
exploits of Argive heroes, that of Bellerophontes against the Chimaera, and Perseus,
who has cut off the head of Medusa. Over against the temple is the place where
the suppliants of the god sleep.
Near has been built a circular building of white marble, called Tholos
(Round House), which is worth seeing. In it is a picture by Pausias representing
Love, who has cast aside his bow and arrows, and is carrying instead of them a
lyre that he has taken up. Here there is also another work of Pausias, Drunkenness
drinking out of a crystal cup. You can see even in the painting a crystal cup
and a woman's face through it. Within the enclosure stood slabs; in my time six
remained, but of old there were more. On them are inscribed the names of both
the men and the women who have been healed by Asclepius, the disease also from
which each suffered, and the means of cure. The dialect is Doric.
Apart from the others is an old slab, which declares that Hippolytus
dedicated twenty horses to the god. The Aricians tell a tale that agrees with
the inscription on this slab, that when Hippolytus was killed, owing to the curses
of Theseus, Asclepius raised him from the dead. On coming to life again he refused
to forgive his father rejecting his prayers, he went to the Aricians in Italy.
There he became king and devoted a precinct to Artemis, where down to my time
the prize for the victor in single combat was the priesthood of the goddess. The
contest was open to no freeman, but only to slaves who had run away from their
masters.
The Epidaurians have a theater within the sanctuary, in my opinion
very well worth seeing. For while the Roman theaters are far superior to those
anywhere else in their splendor, and the Arcadian theater at Megalopolis is unequalled
for size, what architect could seriously rival Polycleitus in symmetry and beauty?
For it was Polycleitus who built both this theater and the circular building.
Within the grove are a temple of Artemis, an image of Epione, a sanctuary of Aphrodite
and Themis, a race-course consisting, like most Greek race-courses, of a bank
of earth, and a fountain worth seeing for its roof and general splendour.
A Roman senator, Antoninus, made in our own day a bath of Asclepius and a sanctuary
of the gods they call Bountiful. He made also a temple to Health, Asclepius, and
Apollo, the last two surnamed Egyptian. He moreover restored the portico that
was named the Portico of Cotys, which, as the brick of which it was made had been
unburnt, had fallen into utter ruin after it had lost its roof. As the Epidaurians
about the sanctuary were in great distress, because their women had no shelter
in which to be delivered and the sick breathed their last in the open, he provided
a dwelling, so that these grievances also were redressed. Here at last was a place
in which without sin a human being could die and a woman be delivered. (Paus. 2.27.1-6)
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