CLASSICS 2902 ANCIENT MEDICINE
COMPREHENSIVE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SET
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✔✔"Deaf-mute:" offensive (today) - ✔✔Makes one "unacceptable to public life" (oral-
based education system)
Serious functional disability among elite; possibly "doable" for lower class
Evidence for "deaf-mute" slaves at imperial court
✔✔G deaf - ✔✔Hippocrates/ Greeks link deafness & muteness (connected nerves)
✔✔Roman law deaf - ✔✔"deaf-mutes" mentally deficient & suffering from an illness;
unable to participate
✔✔The "monster market" - ✔✔"Monstrous births:" any abnormality (Minotaur to physical
disabilities)
Impaired slaves as "pets"
Early Christian period: Augustine: descendants of Adam & Eve
✔✔Plutarch: - ✔✔Rome's "monster market"
✔✔Quintillian: - ✔✔high demand for disabled slaves; deliberate disfiguration on
monster market
✔✔Intersex people: - ✔✔"erotic entertainment" during Empire
✔✔Vocab - ✔✔deformis, deformitatus, distortus
✔✔References/Authors - ✔✔References in variety of sources
Imperial court: companions & entertainers
Authors: interest in emperor's relationship with deformed/ disabled slaves
, Authors: encode abnormal moral & political status of emperor
✔✔Bad emperors: - ✔✔connected with disabled "monstrous" individuals
"Monstrous emperor" surrounding himself with "monstrous bodies"
✔✔Commodus - ✔✔monster, has monstrous slaves
calling people one-eyed or one-footed after taking said body parts
✔✔Good emperors: - ✔✔God-like
✔✔Caligula - ✔✔"the monster" (Suetonius); irregular body, ugly face, bald, physical
impairment, hoarse
✔✔Emperor's authority & reputation linked to - ✔✔physical body
✔✔Ideal emperor - ✔✔moral example vs bad emperor - warning
✔✔Sanctuary of Asclepius at Epidaurus - ✔✔The Sanctuary of Asclepius, the
Sanctuary of Apollo and Asclepius, the Grove, the Sanctuary
✔✔Pausanias: - ✔✔area particularly sacred because Asclepius was born on nearby hill
✔✔Mortal hero & physician of Homer: - ✔✔associated with Thessaly
✔✔God of healing: - ✔✔Epidaurus (~6th c BCE); most important god of that polis
✔✔Sanctuary of Asclepius - ✔✔Closely connected to Epidaurus
Attracted suppliants from across the Greco-Roman world
Asclepieion remained active until end of the 4th c CE
✔✔2 major building periods: - ✔✔1) by polis: 4th-3rd c BCE
2) by Roman senator Antoninus: ~mid-2nd c CE
✔✔Monumental building: 4th-3rd c BCE - ✔✔Modest in 5th c BCE; but influential:
sanctuaries on Cos, Cyrene, Crete, Sicyon, Aegina, Athens (& across Attica)
Monumental building to increase size & quality of sanctuary
Temple of Asclepius; other temples
Dormitory (Abaton)
Thymele/ Tholos
Theater & banqueting hall
COMPREHENSIVE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SET
A+
✔✔"Deaf-mute:" offensive (today) - ✔✔Makes one "unacceptable to public life" (oral-
based education system)
Serious functional disability among elite; possibly "doable" for lower class
Evidence for "deaf-mute" slaves at imperial court
✔✔G deaf - ✔✔Hippocrates/ Greeks link deafness & muteness (connected nerves)
✔✔Roman law deaf - ✔✔"deaf-mutes" mentally deficient & suffering from an illness;
unable to participate
✔✔The "monster market" - ✔✔"Monstrous births:" any abnormality (Minotaur to physical
disabilities)
Impaired slaves as "pets"
Early Christian period: Augustine: descendants of Adam & Eve
✔✔Plutarch: - ✔✔Rome's "monster market"
✔✔Quintillian: - ✔✔high demand for disabled slaves; deliberate disfiguration on
monster market
✔✔Intersex people: - ✔✔"erotic entertainment" during Empire
✔✔Vocab - ✔✔deformis, deformitatus, distortus
✔✔References/Authors - ✔✔References in variety of sources
Imperial court: companions & entertainers
Authors: interest in emperor's relationship with deformed/ disabled slaves
, Authors: encode abnormal moral & political status of emperor
✔✔Bad emperors: - ✔✔connected with disabled "monstrous" individuals
"Monstrous emperor" surrounding himself with "monstrous bodies"
✔✔Commodus - ✔✔monster, has monstrous slaves
calling people one-eyed or one-footed after taking said body parts
✔✔Good emperors: - ✔✔God-like
✔✔Caligula - ✔✔"the monster" (Suetonius); irregular body, ugly face, bald, physical
impairment, hoarse
✔✔Emperor's authority & reputation linked to - ✔✔physical body
✔✔Ideal emperor - ✔✔moral example vs bad emperor - warning
✔✔Sanctuary of Asclepius at Epidaurus - ✔✔The Sanctuary of Asclepius, the
Sanctuary of Apollo and Asclepius, the Grove, the Sanctuary
✔✔Pausanias: - ✔✔area particularly sacred because Asclepius was born on nearby hill
✔✔Mortal hero & physician of Homer: - ✔✔associated with Thessaly
✔✔God of healing: - ✔✔Epidaurus (~6th c BCE); most important god of that polis
✔✔Sanctuary of Asclepius - ✔✔Closely connected to Epidaurus
Attracted suppliants from across the Greco-Roman world
Asclepieion remained active until end of the 4th c CE
✔✔2 major building periods: - ✔✔1) by polis: 4th-3rd c BCE
2) by Roman senator Antoninus: ~mid-2nd c CE
✔✔Monumental building: 4th-3rd c BCE - ✔✔Modest in 5th c BCE; but influential:
sanctuaries on Cos, Cyrene, Crete, Sicyon, Aegina, Athens (& across Attica)
Monumental building to increase size & quality of sanctuary
Temple of Asclepius; other temples
Dormitory (Abaton)
Thymele/ Tholos
Theater & banqueting hall
