Raymond V. Schoder, Ancient Greece from the Air

Medicine from Ancient Greece to Soviet Russia

" Scire est nescire, nisi id me Scire alius sciret AUTUMN, 1941. For the purpose of this address the term medicine is used in t e sense given to it by the distinguished American doctor, Le Koy Crummer, when he said that medicine meant to him not the discoveries of the great men, but the land of medical attention available to the common man down the centuries.1 , and that I may appear to be stra...

Plants in Ancient Greece

Suicide in ancient Greece.

The theme of suicide appears several times in ancient Greek literature. However, each such reference acquires special significance depending on the field from which it originates. Most of the information found in mythology, but the suicide in a mythological tale, although in terms of motivation and mental situation of heroes may be in imitation of similar incidents of real life, in fact is link...

esotericism in ancient greece

the expressions of “esoteric” and “esotericism” have a wide range of meanings, however, they specifically apply to religious, mystical, and philosophical secret schools. in ancient greek world, i.e. before the hellenistic era, we come across some currents with esoteric tendencies. the various texts from this period show that the ancient greeks sought the source of the esoteric currents outside ...

Sacred psychiatry in ancient Greece

From the ancient times, there are three basic approaches for the interpretation of the different psychic phenomena: the organic, the psychological, and the sacred approach. The sacred approach forms the primordial foundation for any psychopathological development, innate to the prelogical human mind. Until the second millennium B.C., the Great Mother ruled the Universe and shamans cured the dif...