Le réseau des Asclépiéia dans la Grèce classique : médecine d’Asclépios et médecine des Asclépiades

Abstract

Within the framework of the modern institution «International Network of the ancient Asclepieia » (ΔΙΕΘΝΕΣ ΔΙΚΤϒΟ ΑΡΧΑΙΩΝ ΑΣΚΛΗ-ΠΙΕΙΩΝ), this communication gives a global vision on what corresponds in Antiquity to the modern conception of network of the ancient sanctuaries of Asclepius, always starting from the primary literary or epigraphic documents, some of which are little known. The first part shows what is typical of the destiny of Asclepios, a prince of Tricca who became finally a healing deity and had many descendants, called the Asclepiads. The central part strives to establish genealogical stemmas between the main Asclepieia in classical Greece. The third part tries to pose the problems on the complex relations, having evolved in time, between religious medicine of the sanctuaries of Asclepius and rational medicine of the great families of physicians resulting from his two sons, Machaon and Podaleiros.