Abstract
Asclepius was one of the most popular healing deities in Graeco-Roman antiquity. Patients suffering from various diseases resorted to his sanctuaries, the so-called asclepieia, looking for cure. Many inscriptions preserve stories of supplicants who slept in the abaton of the temples and claimed that they had been healed or received remedies from the god. The historical study may take into consideration modern (neuro)cognitive research on the placebo effects in order to examine the possibilities of actual healing experiences at the asclepeiea. In this paper, I take into account the theoretical premises of the placebo drama theory suggested by Ted Kaptchuk in order to explore the specific factors, including the personality of Asclepius, his patients’ mindsets, the relationship between them, the nature of the supplicants’ impairments, the employed or prescribed treatments and the ritual settings of the cult, which could have mediated health recovery, and contributed to the phenomenal success of the Asclepian therapies via the activation of patients’ placebo responses.
Acknowledgements
I would like to offer my special thanks to the editors Nils H. Korsvoll and Agnes Mihálykó Tothne for inviting me to write a paper for this volume. I would also like to thank Hedvig von Ehrenheim for allowing me to read his article in this issue. I am also grateful to Luther H. Martin, Professor Emeritus of Religion, University of Vermont, for reading my manuscript and providing me with valuable comments and suggestions.
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Articles in the same Issue
- Titelseiten
- Introduction: Using Placebo Research to Explore Belief and Healing in Late Antiquity
- Placebo is Magic or Magic is Placebo? The Greco-Roman Iatromagical Texts
- Healing Traditions in Coptic Magical Texts
- Placebo factors at healing sanctuaries in pagan and early Christian times
- The Question of the Effectiveness of Coptic Pharmacological Prescriptions
- Healing in Christian Liturgy in Late Antique Egypt: Sources and Perspectives
- The Placebo Drama of the Asclepius Cult
- The vocabulary of care and healing in the Greek private letters of Byzantine Egypt
- Hope for Cure and the Placebo Effect: The Case of the Greco-Egyptian Iatromagical Formularies
- List of Contributors
Articles in the same Issue
- Titelseiten
- Introduction: Using Placebo Research to Explore Belief and Healing in Late Antiquity
- Placebo is Magic or Magic is Placebo? The Greco-Roman Iatromagical Texts
- Healing Traditions in Coptic Magical Texts
- Placebo factors at healing sanctuaries in pagan and early Christian times
- The Question of the Effectiveness of Coptic Pharmacological Prescriptions
- Healing in Christian Liturgy in Late Antique Egypt: Sources and Perspectives
- The Placebo Drama of the Asclepius Cult
- The vocabulary of care and healing in the Greek private letters of Byzantine Egypt
- Hope for Cure and the Placebo Effect: The Case of the Greco-Egyptian Iatromagical Formularies
- List of Contributors