 Asclepeion

Asclepeions ( "Asklepieion"; Ἀσκλαπιεῖον in Doric dialect; Latin "aesculapīum") were healing temples located in ancient Greece (and in the wider Hellenistic and Roman world), dedicated to Asclepius, the first doctor-demigod in Greek mythology.Asclepius was said to have been such a skilled doctor that he could even raise people from the dead.