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Pergamon

A city in Asia Minor with a great sanctuary of Asclepius, where Aristides spent long stays.

Today: Bergama, Turkey

The Plague at My Country House, and a Life for a Life

Aelius Aristides, Sacred Tales II and V · early 170s CE (plague events of the mid-160s, probably 165 or 166)

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ἦν ἅμα μὲν Ἀσκληπιὸς, ἅμα δὲ Ἀπόλλων, ὅ τε δὴ Κλάριος καὶ ὁ καλλίτεκνος καλούμενος ἐν Περγάμῳ, οὗ ὁ πρῶτος ‖J295‖ τῶν ναῶν τῶν τριῶν ἐστιν.

He was Asclepius and Apollo at once: both the Apollo of Claros and the one called "Blessed in His Children" at Pergamum, whose temple comes first of the three there.