1. Ancient Greece (1500BC-400AD)
Supernatural Ideas

2. Lesson Objectives
To identify and explain what the Cult of Asclepios was
To evaluate the importance of Supernatural ideas in Greek Medicine
To analyse whether there has been a significant change in ideas about disease and infection since the ancient Egyptian time period.

3. Both of these ideas flourished at the same time
Split Viewpoints !
Supernatural – Cult of Asclepios
Rational/Scientific – Hippocrates
Both of these ideas flourished at the same time
Use the last paragraph on page 21 to summarise this information.

4. The Cult of Asclepios Greek God of Healing Built Temples – Asclepions
Sick people visited temples – while there they performed several rituals
1) Make an offering or sacrifice to the God
2) Bathe in the sea to cleanse themselves
3) Sleep for at least 1 night in the abaton – a building with open air on each side
4) Whilst in the abaton, patients expected to be visited by a God

6. Your Task
Complete the A3 sheet using pages of the green book and pages of the white book!

7. Why was the Cult of Asclepios so popular
Why was the Cult of Asclepios so popular? How far had supernatural ideas developed from the Egyptian times?