MUSICAL THERAPY IN ANCIENT GREECE: BERGAMA ASCLEPION SAMPLE
AbstractAccording to the Ancient Greek, music had a big importance for the education of soul and for circumcision. The history of musical therapy goes back as the history of medicine. There are data about that music was used for the treatments of diseases such as depression, mania, epilepsy, homesickness-melancholy, insanity, hysteria, paralysis, gout, inflammatory diseases, rheumatism, various pains, plague, measles, and hydrophobia in Ancient Greece. It was asserted in Odyssiea written by Homeros in the 9th Century B.C. that music was good for bleeding. Plato, Aristidis, and Celsus treated the mental disorders by the help of music. When Asclepios advanced in the carrier of God of Medicine, he made the similar of Asclepion in Epidaures founded in Bergama in the 4th Century B.C. As we understood from the inscriptions, the methods of physiotherapy, suggestion, and musical therapy that are also still being used today were applied in asclepions. Asclepion, in Bergama town of İzmir, which is one of the health temples founded for the sake of the Medicine God Asclepios, is a westernmost city in the East and an easternmost city in the West with its beautiful nature and healing natural resources. Bergama; is a health city in which the natural treatment methods such as music, theatre, sports, sun, mud was first used, the snake that is the symbol of medicine and pharmacy was found, the first hospital Asclepion was founded. In this study, musical therapy was featured by mentioning the treatment methods in Asclepion