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Pergamon was the subject of Dr. Tarbell's lecture delivered in the Jefferson Physical Laboratory last evening. The city of Pergamon, said Dr. Tarbell, was situated near the seacoast in Mysia on a hill between two rivers which flow into the Aegean Sea. It was of no importance before the time of Alexander the Great. After the death of Alexander the city was chosen as a place of deposit for treasure by Attalus who founded a dynasty in 241 B. C. which lasted for several hundred years. The princes of this dynasty distinguished themselves by their energy...
Pergamon (illustrated). Dr. Tarbell. Jefferson Physical Laboratory...
Pergamon (illustrated). Dr. Tarbell. Jefferson Physical Laboratory...
Wednesday, Dec. 18, Pergamos (illustrated). Jefferson Physical Laboratory...
...Tarbell delivered an interesting lecture last evening in the Jefferson Physical Laboratory on Epidauros and the Worship of Asklepios. The subject he declared, is of special interest to us on account of the connection of the worship of Asklepios with the real or supposed art of healing among the Greeks. The worship of Asklepios as the god from whom men derived power to cure wounds and diseases seems to have originated in Thessaly, but in prehistoric times had spread widely over Greece. The god's most important sanctuary was the Epidauros, and his greatest shrines throughout Greece were the offshoots...