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I was going to sit down with a pot of Darjeeling tea this evening and work on relating a Pergamene inscription (fortunately translated into English by A. Petsalis-Diomidis) to the ground-plan of the sanctuary. But after staying up late to read Among Others, and visiting my grandmother in the presence of both my uncles to present her with her 83rd birthday gift, I seem to have contracted an urgent need to nap. Most distressing.
The second century plan of the sanctuary is offering several fascinating items to consider. Not one, but two crytoporticoes, which both terminate just outside a rotunda which may well be modelled on the Pantheon in Rome. Baths, a gymnasion - which is probable, and I'm going to have to sit down with the damn German excavation report, not just the nice labelled pictures, to figure it out a little better - a library and a theatre, and let's not leave aside the temples themselves (four of them) and the incubation complexes. And the latrines, and the covered Sacred Way with a(nother) bath complex just below a crossroads.
Galen claims that there were competitions in dissection at Pergamon, and I wonder whether this was actually at the sanctuary. I really still don't know enough about this.
Oh, well. More reading ahead of me. But now, napping.
I was going to sit down with a pot of Darjeeling tea this evening and work on relating a Pergamene inscription (fortunately translated into English by A. Petsalis-Diomidis) to the ground-plan of the sanctuary. But after staying up late to read Among Others, and visiting my grandmother in the presence of both my uncles to present her with her 83rd birthday gift, I seem to have contracted an urgent need to nap. Most distressing.
The second century plan of the sanctuary is offering several fascinating items to consider. Not one, but two crytoporticoes, which both terminate just outside a rotunda which may well be modelled on the Pantheon in Rome. Baths, a gymnasion - which is probable, and I'm going to have to sit down with the damn German excavation report, not just the nice labelled pictures, to figure it out a little better - a library and a theatre, and let's not leave aside the temples themselves (four of them) and the incubation complexes. And the latrines, and the covered Sacred Way with a(nother) bath complex just below a crossroads.
Galen claims that there were competitions in dissection at Pergamon, and I wonder whether this was actually at the sanctuary. I really still don't know enough about this.
Oh, well. More reading ahead of me. But now, napping.
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Date: 2011-01-22 06:22 pm (UTC)Are cryptoporticoes called that because they're hidden or because they're almost but not quite developed?
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Date: 2011-01-22 06:38 pm (UTC)Petitioners slept within the sanctuary in order to acquire a healing dream or oracle from the god. It's actually described in Aristophanes' Wealth - humourously, of course - and this ritual sleeping is known as incubation.
Cryptoporticoes are thus called because they're underground - so, hidden. And often built where a piece of (civic or religious) ground has been levelled off on a slope, for obvious reasons. There's a lovely one in the agora in Thessaloniki where I spent a glorious half-hour out of the sun.
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Date: 2011-01-22 06:42 pm (UTC)no subject
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