A strange dream offers hope when plague strikes the citizens of Rome in 293 BCE. They bring a snake back, the god Aesculapius, who saves the city and has a temple on Tiber Island.
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God of medicine and the healing arts, he has several unusual myths and features, including a strange relationship with a snake when he was a child.
An unusual classical god in very peculiar circumstances: what took the goddess of love to the doctor?
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