The College of Aesculapius and Hygia was an association (collegium) founded in the mid-2nd century AD by a wealthy Roman woman named Salvia Marcellina, in honor of her dead husband[1] and the procurator for whom he had worked.[2] It is known from a lengthy inscription,[3] dated March 11, 153 AD, that preserves the statute (lex) under which the college was constituted.[4] The college was located on the Appian Way on the outskirts of Rome,[5] between the first and second milestones near the oldest Temple of Mars at Rome.[6] In addition to its commemorative purpose, the college served as a burial society and dining club for its members.[7]
- ^ John K. Chow, Patronage and Power: Studies on Social Networks in Corinth (Sheffield Academic Press, 1992), p. 66.
- ^ John F. Donahue, The Roman Community at Table During the Principate (University of Michigan Press, 2004), p. 85.
- ^ Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum 6.10214 = Inscriptiones Latinae Selectae 7213.
- ^ Donahue, The Roman Community at Table, pp. 85–86.
- ^ Richard Duncan-Jones, The Economy of the Roman Empire: Quantitative Studies (Cambridge University Press, 1982, 2nd ed.), p. 131.
- ^ Roger D. Woodard, Indo-European Sacred Space: Vedic and Roman Cult (University of Illinois Press, 2006), p. 138.
- ^ Richard S. Ascough, Paul's Macedonian Associations (Mohr Siebeck, 2003), p. 45.