Asclepius

Noted in the writings of Asclepius, among others of the ancients.

Asclepius, the Greek god of healing, cured people by touching them.

Sneed focused on the fourth century B.C.E., when sanctuaries to Asclepius proliferated.

The first was in those he taught: like the father of medicine, Asclepius, who in turn was said to have taught Hippocrates.

To Price, his museum’s logo — the two flags separated by the Rod of Asclepius, a symbol of the Greek god of medicine and healing — no longer represented the broader story of the museum’s three outposts.