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View looking down, on to the area of the southern slope of the acropolis, where the Asclepion and a stoa were located.
The cult of Asclepius, the god of healing, was established in Athens in the late fifth century B.C. – possibly after the city had been devastated by a plague. The cult may have been introduced by practitioners from Epidarus.
