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On the origin of Ammon's horn.
Neurologia
October 2014
Department of Epilepsy, Neurology, The Walton Centre for Neurology & Neurosurgery NHS Trust, Liverpool, Reino Unido. Electronic address:
Introduction: Greek and Roman worship of their gods and myths go back to Ancient Egyptian times. Images engraved in Greco-Roman coinage range from references to the assassination of Caesar and legendary stories like the arrival of a snake shaped demi-god Aesculapius to save the Romans from the plague, to invocations of major deities including Apollo the physician or Ammon the protector.
Development: Depicted with the horns of a ram, Ammon was adopted by the Greeks as an epithet of Zeus and later incorporated by the Romans as Jupiter.
[The Temple of Aesculapius in Diocletian's palace in Split].
Lijec Vjesn
February 1996
Hrvatska liga protiv raka-Podruznica Split.
Many temples, sanctuaries and even the entire small towns have been dedicated to Aesculapius's, the god of medicine. The remnants of Aesculapius temples in the Republic of Croatia have been found on locations of Narona, Salona, Pola and in Diocletian's palace in Split. The first archbishop of Split, "Giovanni di Ravenna", at the end of the 8th century or at the beginning of the 9th century, gave to Diocletian's Mausoleum the name of "Templum Jouis" and reassigned it to Christian church.
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