article_snippet.sent: Historians have long believed this was result of an epileptic attack, but new research suggests otherwise.
article_snippet.sent: In antiquity epilepsy was referred to as the 'sacred disease' among the Greeks.
article_snippet.sent: It was generally perceived by those uneducated in medicine or as being the result of possession by a deity.
article_snippet.sent: In literature of the time, epileptics were often the possessors of powers and the subjects of divine favour.
article_snippet.sent: The Greeks and the Romans appear to have known the causes and symptoms of epilepsy quite well.
article_snippet.sent: The Hippocratic treatise On the Sacred Disease, which attempts prove the condition is not caused by supernatural causes, outlined The Greeks and the Romans in detail.
article_snippet.sent: In antiquity epilepsy was referred to as the 'sacred disease' among the Greeks. 
article_snippet.sent: It was generally perceived by those uneducated in medicine or as being the result of possession by a deity.
article_snippet.sent: In literature, epileptics were often the possessors of powers and the subjects of divine favour.
highlights_snippet.sent: Historians have long believed this was caused by late onset ofEpilepsy .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Epilepsy was often referred to as the 'sacred disease' in ancient Rome .
  