Hygieia and Asklepios were the gods of dream healing cults that rose in about 500 BCE during the Plague of Athens
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Bastienne Klein
Bastienne Klein is a PhD student in mythology at the University of Cape Town. Her study concerns ancient Greek Healing cults. In 2019, she made a pilgrimage to Greece to visit twelve ancient healing temples.