EPIDAURUS FOR KIDS: The ancient healing site

Epidaurus was an ancient healing place. It was a beautiful place in nature that let people who had been injured in war or had gotten sick to escape from the city and heal. Epidaurus was dedicated to Asclepios. Asclepios was the god of healing and medicine. He was not as famous as Zeus or Athena, but he was still very important. The patients believed that Asclepios would visit them at night while they were sleeping in the form of a snake! If Asclepios visited them they would wake up healed!

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Epidaurus was not just a place of worship. Scientific medicine was practiced there as well, and all sorts of medical instruments were found when archeologists explored the ruins.

Despite being ill, there were some fun things to do at Epidaurus. The healing place is also the site of a huge amphitheater, which was used as an outdoor stage to put on plays and other performances! This amphitheater was huge, but was so well built that if an actor whispered in the center of the stage, the audience could hear it even if they were all the way up at the top seats.