Wilamowitz-Möllendorff (U. von) Isyllus von Epidaurus
[1]About one-third of the lantern slides are here reproduced.
[2]Montfaucon (L’Antiq. Explic. 1 ii 289) quotes a curious story to the effect that
Dionysios, the Tyrant of Syracuse, visiting Epidauros, stole the massive golden beard from the
figure of the god. He excused the theft on the ground that it was unseemly for Asklepios to
wear a beard when his father Apollo had none!
[3]Lib. II cap. xxvii § 1.
[4]Lib. II cap. xxvii § 5.
[5]Modern Painters, V, Part ix, Ch. 5, § 3.
[6]An American friend
suggests another explanation, viz., that the statue, although
“set up by Epidauros,” was paid for and
the inscription inspired by Philippos of Pergamos
himself. Though St. John, in the Apocalypse (II. 13)
speaks unfavourably of that city
ὅπου
ὁ Σατανᾶς
κατοικεῖ
one feels unwilling to accuse one of its inhabitants of so astute a form of advertising.
[7]This slab has accidentally been reversed in the process of reproduction.