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The Asclepion: Medicine in Ancient Greece

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Impressive Classics Technology Center site lists the achievements of the ancient Greeks in medicine from the time of Homer up to Hippocrates and the plague of Athens during the Peloponnesian war. Gives evidence from ancient texts.

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medicine, hippocrates, ancient greece
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cultural achievements, earliest palaces, healers, physicians, anaxamander, anaxamander of miletus, anaximenes, empedocles, galen, greek medicine, greek physicians, heraclitus, heraclitus of ephesus, parmenides, parmenides of elea, thales, thales of miletus, early greek history, achievements
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Classroom Considerations
  • Knovation Readability Score: 3 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)