Iámata kaì metanoia: doença, cura e espiritualidade nas Inscriptiones Epidauri

Abstract

In this dissertation we propose to study some Epidaurian Greek inscriptions and its contra-intuitive cures promoted at the healing temple in the same city by the god Asklepius through of his hierophanies. We aim to analyze within the Greek imaginary the sickness like the path to the health and contra-intuitive cures, as well as to put in evidence within the Theory of Sacred of the Eliade all that evolves the questions about: myth and rites, hierophany and divinity power, and sacred and profane in the contents of the inscriptions. To reach this goal, we go through an analytical path that aimed to study the pilgrimage spirituality, religion, enchantment medicine, and the word as healing power, who is metonymically as the voice of divinity in the rituals of incubation.