Drawing on an extensive bibliography—in which the travel accounts, historical and literary texts of antiquity are organically combined with modern scholarship, the findings of archaeological excavations, abundant photographic and illustrative material, and the author’s own research—the book successfully presents a journey through the sacred cult centers of the Peloponnese and the Olympian and local healing deities.
The Asclepieia of the Peloponnese not only fills a gap in Greek bibliography but also offers a fresh perspective and a clear view of an old subject in the history of medicine, one that is now being “rediscovered” on a global scale.
