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greece, messene, the asklepieion - greece, peloponnese, messene, ithome, the asklepieion 4th-3rd century bce pausanias represents the asklepieion as a museum of art works, mainly statues, rather than the more usual sanatorium for sick patients. it was the most conspicuous site in messene and the center of the public life of the city, functioning as such alongside the nearby agora. the temple and altar are closely hedged about by about 140 bases for bronze statues, mainly of political figures, and five exedras, and many other statues were erected along the stoas. the asklepieion consists of an almost square area measuring 71.91 x 66.67 m., with four internal stoas opening on to the central open-air courtyard. each of the stoas on the north and south sides had 23 corinthian columns on the facade, supporting an entablature that consisted of an ionic architrave and a frieze with relief bull's heads adorned alternately with floral scrolls and bowls. there were similar stoas on the east and west sides, though these each had 21 columns. all the stoas had a second, inner colonnade with fourteen columns on the north and south sides and thirteen on the east and west. in the east wing of this peristyle courtyard is a complex of three buildings: the small, roofed, theatre-like ekklesiasterion, the imposing propylon, and the synedrion or bouleuterion together with the hall of the archive.

424213 - greece, messene, the asklepieion

Rhodes, The Byzantine church of Agios Nicholas in Fountoukli - Greece Rhodes Fountoukli The Byzantine church of Agios Nicholas, detail of the drum and with the dome late 14th - early 15th century

427116 - Rhodes, The Byzantine church of Agios Nicholas in Fountoukli

greece, epidaurus, the sanctuary propylea - greece, epidaurus, the base of the sanctuary northern propylea with the ramp 340-300 bce the sanctuary of asklepios at epidaurus was the most celebrated healing center of the ancient world. a mortal physician deified by zeus after his death for retrieving a patient from the underworld, asklepios was typically depicted clutching a staff and flanked by a dog and a serpent - common symbols of wisdom. the authority and radiance of asklepios as the most important healer god of antiquity brought to the sanctuary great financial prosperity, which in the 4th and 3rd centuries bce, enabled the implementation of an ambitious building program for the construction of monumental buildings for worship and later, of buildings mainly secular in character such as its magnificent theater. this sanctuary was active from the 6th century bce until at least the 2nd century bce when the traveler-historian pausanias recorded a visit.

424420 - greece, epidaurus, the sanctuary propylea