The Rod of Asclepius is a striking emblem: a simple staff with a lone snake coiled around it, universally acknowledged as a symbol of medicine and healing.

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Sofoulis, often forgotten in the modern era, was a renaissance man, archaeologist and social activist. He was not only behind the union of Samos with Greece, but also an advocate of democracy ...

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