The Cult of Hygieia in Greek Inscriptions

Authors

  • Teresa Alfieri Tonini University of Milan

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.13130/2035-4797/2299

Keywords:

Inscriptions, Hygieia, Epidauros, Athens, Crete, Soteira, Synodoiporos, Alexiponos

Abstract

This article relates to the epigraphic documents concerning the cult of Hygieia. The research focuses on the typology of the inscriptions of Epidauros, place where the most important Asklepios’s shrine stands, whose cult spread all over the Greek world; Hygieia was associated to Asklepios’s cult. The epigraphic sources of Hygieia’s cult in Attica are very important as here, besides Asklepios, it is associated to other healers such as Aminos, Amphiaraos, Telesphoros. On the other hand in Crete, although there were many Asklepieia, the cult of Hygieia has very few epigraphic testimonies in Lebena and Lissos, but these inscriptions are very interesting because of the use of Goddess Hygieia’s epithet of Synodoiporos besides the more common name of Soteira.

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Author Biography

Teresa Alfieri Tonini, University of Milan

Teresa Alfieri Tonini is Lecturer of Greek Epigraphy at the University of Milan. Her main research fields and published works are mostly related to the historiographical tradition, with particular emphasis on the history of Sicily in the Bibliotheke Historike by Diodorus Siculus; greek epigraphic documents both public, mostly regarding international relations, and private, especially the funerary inscriptions; the epigraphic evidence of interrelations and cultural crossings between non-Greek sites and Hellenic cities of eastern Sicily.

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Published

2012-07-18

Issue

No. 10 (2011)

Section

Gortys 2010: a Marble head of Hygieia from the Terme Milano, eds. G. Bejor and C. Lambrugo - Milan, January 25th 2011. 2