Épidaure

Épidaure (in Greek old Ἐπίδαυρος / Epídauros ) is small a quoted Greek of the Argolide, peninsula in the North-East of the Peloponnese.

The sanctuary of Épidaure is a high place of the Greek medicine. During Antiquity, people ran of all the Greece to be made look after in the sanctuary of Asclépios, the god healer. This place sheltered very famous Médecins. As in all the Greek sanctuaries, of the sporting and theatrical tests were organized in the honor of the gods. One thus found in Épidaure of the vestiges of sports equipment. But the site is especially famous for its theater.

History

It is quoted in the Catalog of the vessels like “Épidaure with the good vineyards” ( Iliade , II, 561). To the {{VIIe}} and sixth century BC, it belongs to the Amphictyonie known as “of the Minyens”, whose seat is located on the island of Calaurie. At the end of the 6th century, it is controlled by the Proclès tyrant, who give his Mélissa daughter in marriage to Périandre, tyrant of Corinthe.

At the time of the medic Wars, the city sends eight vessels to the Bataille of Artémision, 800 men with Platées and 10 vessels with the Salamine. With leaving the war, Salamine is combined with Sparte and enters the Ligue of the Peloponnese, against Athens and the Ligue of Délos. It takes share with the “business of Corcyre” and provides Trière S to Corinthe. Thereafter, Épidaure constitutes a neuralgic point of the confrontation between Athens and Sparte.

With the traditional time, Épidaure enjoys a great fame thanks to its dedicated sanctuary with Asclépios, where one practices the medicine by the dreams. It includes/understands several public buildings, including one large temple built at the beginning of fourth century BC In the honor of Asclépios are also organized the Asklepieia , of the penetetric Jeux panhellenic including/understanding horse-races and, as from the 4th century, of the contests of poetry. The worship of Asclépios reaches its apogee with the hellenistic time.

In 243 av. J. - C., Épidaure joined the Achaean Ligue. During the summer 225 av. J. - C., it is taken by Cléomène III, king de Sparte. Thereafter, it becomes the allied one of Rome. Scipion Émilien the visit in 168 - 167 av. J. - C., at the same time as of other great places of the hellenism, like Athens, Delphes and Olympie. In 87 av. J. - C., it is devastated by Sylla, which plunders the treasure of the temple. The last mention of Épidaure goes back to the {{VIe}} century a. J. - C., in the Synekdemos of Hiéroklès, a work describing administrative divisions of the Byzantine Empire.

Archeology

The ruins of Épidaure are excavated as from the 19th century. They made it possible to release the ruins of the sanctuary of Asclépios, a temple of Artémis, of a Tholos , of a temple of Aphrodite and especially of a theater.

The Theater of Épidaure figure among best preserved of Greece. Under Antiquity, it was already famous for the harmony of its Proportion S. It is famous for its exceptional acoustics. It is indeed possible to perceive since each place the least sounds produced on the scene (breathing, coin which fall, paper crumpling,…). It was conceived by the architect and sculptor Polyclète the Young person in the middle of fourth century BC, also originator of the Tholos , remarkable for its decorated Corinthian columns of very beautiful capitals.

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