{"id":2024,"date":"2014-07-27T07:18:43","date_gmt":"2014-07-27T06:18:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/merrington.net\/?p=2024"},"modified":"2014-07-27T07:27:11","modified_gmt":"2014-07-27T06:27:11","slug":"asklepieion-odeon-and-the-agora-kos-then-farewell-to-greece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/?p=2024","title":{"rendered":"Asklepieion, Odeon and the Agora, Kos then Farewell to Greece"},"content":{"rendered":"

The range of antiquities in Kos Town and on Kos makes me want a virtual game, so I can just wander round and meet the players: Apollo, Asklepeion, Hippocrates, Hadrian, the Venetian Knights of the Crusades and Sulemain, the Magnificent. What a cast of characters, over centuries of occupation by gods and man, Kos casts a spell of inspiration.<\/p>\n

In prime of place, is the Plane tree of Hippocrates, before the Asklepeion was built, Hippocrates taught his students “first do no harm” under the giant plane tree, near the waterfront.<\/p>\n

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Hippocrates’ Plane Tree<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Hippocrates was a descendant of the god Asklepios, the god of healing. After Hippocrates death, the Asklepieion was built as a temple and hospital on a hill overlooking the sea and the coast of Turkey.<\/p>\n

Perhaps there was a sanctuary to Apollo on the site but\u00a0by the 4th Century BC, there was a temple built to honour\u00a0Asklepieion. There patients would bath in springs, priests would listen to their dreams and feed them\u00a0nutritious food in the middle of a pine grove with beautiful views.. \u00a0Just the cleanliness and food may have solved many problems, but listening to dreams while taking in splendid views sounds like early psychotherapy.<\/p>\n

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Asklepieion of Kos<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Asklepieion – Corinthian Temple<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This is all still here but the Asklepieion was ransacked by the Knights to build their fortress, so it will never be fully restored.<\/p>\n

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The view from the Asklepieion<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Antiquities abound in Kos, the Romans were here in 2nd and 3rd centuries BC. \u00a0Greeka.com offers quite a good history, recalling the Casa Romana and the Odeon all within walking distance of the marina and Kos Town.<\/p>\n

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Roman Odeon, Kos Town<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Apartment for sale, Views of Roman Agora<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

So finally, it is time to say farewell to Greece. \u00a0We have to leave after such a short time due to the Schengen Agreement.<\/p>\n

We are off to Turkey and Bodrum. I hear there is a temple to Apollo there too.<\/p>\n

Happy Birthday to cousin Ed De Angelo, hope it was great.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The range of antiquities in Kos Town and on Kos makes me want a virtual game, so I can just wander round and meet the players: Apollo, Asklepeion, Hippocrates, Hadrian, the Venetian Knights of the Crusades and Sulemain, the Magnificent. What a cast of characters, over centuries of occupation by gods and man, Kos casts … Continue reading Asklepieion, Odeon and the Agora, Kos then Farewell to Greece<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[48,53,7,47,41,24,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antiquities","category-asklepieion","category-dreams","category-greece","category-greek-islands","category-tradition","category-travel"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3VxXq-wE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2024"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2038,"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2024\/revisions\/2038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}