Quotes About Aesculapius

In the sanctuary of Aesculapius, its site now occupied by the church of San Bartolomeo, opposite a hospital that is still faithful to the medical tradition of the island, people would come to sleep in order to receive the god's instructions in their dreams - a typically Greek procedure.

Aesculapius, the god of health, whose favour was just as opportune on the first day of January.

For where there is love of man, there is love of the art." AESCULAPIUS

Justin Martyr, in his Apology for the Christian religion, addressed to the Emperor Hadrian, says: "As to our Jesus curing the lame, and the paralytic, and such as were crippled from birth, this is little more than what you say of your Æsculapius." [260:5]

Crito we owe a rooster to Aesculapius