The sacred yellow serpents of Asclepius, the porieas, symbolized healing, renewal, divine power in ancient Greek medical and ...

On Tiber Island, the Basilica di San Bartolomeo all’Isola, center and right, stands on the site of a temple that was dedicated to Aesculapius, the god of healing.

In a small valley in the Peloponnesus, the shrine of Asklepios, the god of medicine, developed out of a much earlier cult of Apollo (Maleatas), during the 6th century BC at the latest, as the official ...