Rick Steves' Greece by Rick Steves

Author:Rick Steves
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Avalon Travel
Published: 2013-07-14T16:00:00+00:00

When you’ve finished your turn on stage, climb the stairs to the seats to join the spectators. Only from up here can you fully appreciate the incredible acoustics—not to mention the remarkable scale and intactness of the place. No matter how high you climb, you can hear every word of the naturally amplified performances down below...all while enjoying the backdrop of sweeping mountains and olive groves.

• Walk down the stairs across from the theater, to find the...

Archaeological Museum

The first room (of three) in this small museum displays various steles (inscribed stone tablets). Some of these document successful cases where patients were healed here by the god Asklepios. Others are rules governing the hospital. The only people to be excluded from the sanctuary were the terminally ill and pregnant women (both were considered too high-risk—their deaths would sully the sanctuary’s reputation). The room also holds a case displaying some medical instruments that’ll make you glad you were born after the invention of anesthetics.

The second room has many (headless) statues of gods who were invoked in the healing process—most of them textbook examples of that wonderfully relaxed contrapposto (S-shaped) stance that was revived centuries later by Renaissance sculptors (find the statue on the left striking an especially sassy pose). The columns and cornice on display were part of the sanctuary’s impressive entryway (propylaea).

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