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Esculápio, Museu Chiaramonti, Braccio Nuovo.
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Esculape is the Roman equivalent of the Greek god Asclépios.
Wire of Apollo and Coronis, only daughter of Phlégias, king of Béotie, Esculape were born on the Mont Titthion, on the side of Épidaure, in the Peloponnese. He is the father of Télesphore. Like the word κορώνη / korốnê in Greek means crow , one said that Esculape had been born from an egg of this bird, under the figure of a Serpent. It is added that Phlégyas, irritated against Apollon who had returned his daughter mother of Esculape, put fire at the temple of Delphes and which it is eternally punished by it in the Tartar where a large rock, suspended above its head, at every moment threatens to crush it in its fall.
According to others, Coronis was killed by Diane, or Apollon in an access of jealousy, and its body was already placed on the funeral Bûcher, when Mercure or Apollo himself put Esculape at the day. The child, initially entrusted to a named nurse Trygone, passed soon to the school Centaure Chiron where it made fast progress in the knowledge of simple and in the composition of the remedies; he practiced with such an amount of skill and success art to cure the wounds and the diseases which he was regarded as the god of the surgery and the Médecine.
He accompanied Hercules and Jason in forwarding by the Colchide and rendered great services to the Argonautes. Not very glad to cure the patients, it ressuscita even deaths. One saw, in the fable of Apollo, how this temerity was punished. Esculape seeming to usurp the rights of the supreme, main divinity thus of the life of the men, Jupiter exterminated it of a love at first sight. But, after his death, one did not leave return the divine honors to him.
Certain authors claimed that it formed in the sky the constellation which one called the Serpentaire. According to Pausanias, its descendants reigned in part of the Messénie, and it was from there that Machaon and Podalire, its two sons, left for the Trojan War.
All is only wonder in this fable. If, for example, Apollon bored his arrows the mother of Esculape, it is that the corbel had wrongfully accused Coronis to have other loves. Soon, the god reproached himself for having lent the ear to this calumny, and was avenged for the corbel by changing into black his white plumage hitherto.
Its worship was established initially in Épidaure, place of its birth; from there, it spread soon in all the Greece. One honoured it in Épidaure in the form with a snake.
An ivory and gold statue, works Trasymède of Paros, represented it under the figure of a man sitting on a throne, having a stick of a hand, and pressing the other on the head of a snake, with a dog lying close to him.
The cock, the snake and the tortoise, symbols of vigilance and prudence necessary to the Doctor S, were especially devoted to him. One nourished Couleuvre S deprived in the temple of Épidaure, and one even claimed that it was under this figure that it was let see; at least, the Romains believed that it had come on their premises in this form, when they sent an embassy to Épidaure to beseech the protection of the god against the plague which afflicted their city.
Athens and Rome solemnly celebrated the festivals called Épidauries or Esculapies in the honor of this god. In the shape of statues, Esculape is generally represented under the features of a man serious, bearded, and carrying a crown of bay-tree; it holds with a hand a Patère, other a twisted stick of a snake.
Esculápio
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Esculápio (em latim: Aesculapius) era o deus romano da medicina e da cura. Foi herdado diretamente da mitologia grega, na qual tinha as mesmas propriedades mas um nome sutilmente diferente: Asclépio (em grego: Ἀσκληπιός, transl. Asklēpiós).
Segundo reza o mito, Esculápio nasceu como mortal, mas depois da sua morte foi-lhe concedida a imortalidade, transformando-se na constelação Ofiúco. Dentre seus filhos encontram-se Hígia e Telésforo.
Curiosamente, na província da Lusitânia, correspondente ao atual território de Portugal, Esculápio era especialmente venerado, enquanto em Roma era considerado uma divindade menor.
O culto a Esculápio foi muito prestigiado no mundo antigo. Os santuários erigidos em sua homenagem se converteram em sanatórios.
Na Ilíada de Homero, Esculápio é apresentado como um hábil cirurgião. Píndaro e Hesíodo detalham como Zeus acabou por fulminar Asclépio com um raio. Consta que a atitude do deus foi porque Asclépio pretendia igualar-se aos deuses tornando os seres humanos imortais.
Depois de algum tempo, Esculápio passou a ser considerado como filho de Apolo com a mortal Corônis, tendo então o poder de curar aos enfermos.
No Peloponeso, no século VI a.C., foram erigidos um templo chamado de Epidauro e um teatro. Lá eram acolhidos os peregrinos e enfermos que acorriam para a festa em honra de Esculápio, a Epidauria. Patrono dos médicos, sua figura aparecia nos ritos místicos de Elêusis.
Em Roma, por ordem das profecias sibilinas, que foram um conjunto de oráculos do ano 293 a.C., o culto a Esculápio foi iniciado.
Esculápio era representado como um homem barbudo, com o ombro direito descoberto, de olhar sereno ao horizonte, ora acompanhado de sua filha Hygiea (Higia, a saúde), ora sozinho. Seu braço esquerdo, sempre aparece apoiado num cajado, confundido às vezes com o caduceu de Mercúrio, que possui duas serpentes, enquanto em volta de seu bastão há apenas uma serpente. O caduceu de Asclépio ou bordão de Esculápio se transformou no símbolo da medicina.
Série sobre a Cidade do Vaticano - Series about the Vatican's City - 09-01-2009 - IMG_20090109_9999_143
Esculápio, Museu Chiaramonti, Braccio Nuovo.
Following, a text, in english, from Speedy look, at the address www.speedylook.com/Esculape.html .
Esculape is the Roman equivalent of the Greek god Asclépios.
Wire of Apollo and Coronis, only daughter of Phlégias, king of Béotie, Esculape were born on the Mont Titthion, on the side of Épidaure, in the Peloponnese. He is the father of Télesphore. Like the word κορώνη / korốnê in Greek means crow , one said that Esculape had been born from an egg of this bird, under the figure of a Serpent. It is added that Phlégyas, irritated against Apollon who had returned his daughter mother of Esculape, put fire at the temple of Delphes and which it is eternally punished by it in the Tartar where a large rock, suspended above its head, at every moment threatens to crush it in its fall.
According to others, Coronis was killed by Diane, or Apollon in an access of jealousy, and its body was already placed on the funeral Bûcher, when Mercure or Apollo himself put Esculape at the day. The child, initially entrusted to a named nurse Trygone, passed soon to the school Centaure Chiron where it made fast progress in the knowledge of simple and in the composition of the remedies; he practiced with such an amount of skill and success art to cure the wounds and the diseases which he was regarded as the god of the surgery and the Médecine.
He accompanied Hercules and Jason in forwarding by the Colchide and rendered great services to the Argonautes. Not very glad to cure the patients, it ressuscita even deaths. One saw, in the fable of Apollo, how this temerity was punished. Esculape seeming to usurp the rights of the supreme, main divinity thus of the life of the men, Jupiter exterminated it of a love at first sight. But, after his death, one did not leave return the divine honors to him.
Certain authors claimed that it formed in the sky the constellation which one called the Serpentaire. According to Pausanias, its descendants reigned in part of the Messénie, and it was from there that Machaon and Podalire, its two sons, left for the Trojan War.
All is only wonder in this fable. If, for example, Apollon bored his arrows the mother of Esculape, it is that the corbel had wrongfully accused Coronis to have other loves. Soon, the god reproached himself for having lent the ear to this calumny, and was avenged for the corbel by changing into black his white plumage hitherto.
Its worship was established initially in Épidaure, place of its birth; from there, it spread soon in all the Greece. One honoured it in Épidaure in the form with a snake.
An ivory and gold statue, works Trasymède of Paros, represented it under the figure of a man sitting on a throne, having a stick of a hand, and pressing the other on the head of a snake, with a dog lying close to him.
The cock, the snake and the tortoise, symbols of vigilance and prudence necessary to the Doctor S, were especially devoted to him. One nourished Couleuvre S deprived in the temple of Épidaure, and one even claimed that it was under this figure that it was let see; at least, the Romains believed that it had come on their premises in this form, when they sent an embassy to Épidaure to beseech the protection of the god against the plague which afflicted their city.
Athens and Rome solemnly celebrated the festivals called Épidauries or Esculapies in the honor of this god. In the shape of statues, Esculape is generally represented under the features of a man serious, bearded, and carrying a crown of bay-tree; it holds with a hand a Patère, other a twisted stick of a snake.
Esculápio
A seguir um texto, em português, da Wikipédia, a Enciclopédia livre:
Esculápio (em latim: Aesculapius) era o deus romano da medicina e da cura. Foi herdado diretamente da mitologia grega, na qual tinha as mesmas propriedades mas um nome sutilmente diferente: Asclépio (em grego: Ἀσκληπιός, transl. Asklēpiós).
Segundo reza o mito, Esculápio nasceu como mortal, mas depois da sua morte foi-lhe concedida a imortalidade, transformando-se na constelação Ofiúco. Dentre seus filhos encontram-se Hígia e Telésforo.
Curiosamente, na província da Lusitânia, correspondente ao atual território de Portugal, Esculápio era especialmente venerado, enquanto em Roma era considerado uma divindade menor.
O culto a Esculápio foi muito prestigiado no mundo antigo. Os santuários erigidos em sua homenagem se converteram em sanatórios.
Na Ilíada de Homero, Esculápio é apresentado como um hábil cirurgião. Píndaro e Hesíodo detalham como Zeus acabou por fulminar Asclépio com um raio. Consta que a atitude do deus foi porque Asclépio pretendia igualar-se aos deuses tornando os seres humanos imortais.
Depois de algum tempo, Esculápio passou a ser considerado como filho de Apolo com a mortal Corônis, tendo então o poder de curar aos enfermos.
No Peloponeso, no século VI a.C., foram erigidos um templo chamado de Epidauro e um teatro. Lá eram acolhidos os peregrinos e enfermos que acorriam para a festa em honra de Esculápio, a Epidauria. Patrono dos médicos, sua figura aparecia nos ritos místicos de Elêusis.
Em Roma, por ordem das profecias sibilinas, que foram um conjunto de oráculos do ano 293 a.C., o culto a Esculápio foi iniciado.
Esculápio era representado como um homem barbudo, com o ombro direito descoberto, de olhar sereno ao horizonte, ora acompanhado de sua filha Hygiea (Higia, a saúde), ora sozinho. Seu braço esquerdo, sempre aparece apoiado num cajado, confundido às vezes com o caduceu de Mercúrio, que possui duas serpentes, enquanto em volta de seu bastão há apenas uma serpente. O caduceu de Asclépio ou bordão de Esculápio se transformou no símbolo da medicina.