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Asclepius and son
Medicine and healing are associated with Apollo, whether through the god himself or mediated through his son Asclepius, yet Apollo was also seen as a god who could bring ill-health and deadly plague.
Such songs were originally addressed to Apollo, and afterwards to other gods: to Dionysus, to Apollo Helios, to Apollo's son Asclepius the healer.
When Zeus struck down Apollo's son Asclepius with a lightning bolt for resurrecting Hippolytus from the dead ( transgressing Themis by stealing Hades's subjects ), Apollo in revenge killed the Cyclopes, who had fashioned the bolt for Zeus.
Pregnant with Asclepius, Coronis fell in love with Ischys, son of Elatus.
However, Galen states that in around 145 AD his father had a dream in which the god Asclepius ( Aesculapius ) appeared and commanded Nicon to send his son to study medicine.
The caduceus is not to be confused with the Rod of Asclepius, the patron of medicine and son of Apollo, which bears only one snake.
While pregnant with Asclepius, Coronis fell in love with Ischys, son of Elatus.
While Apollo was away, Coronis, already pregnant with Asclepius, fell in love with Ischys, son of Elatus.
Heracles, who had become a god many years earlier, came down from Olympus and told Philoctetes to go and that he would be healed by the son of Asclepius and win great honor as a hero of the Achaean army.
Once back in military company outside Troy, they employed either Machaon the surgeon ( who may have been killed by Eurypylus of Mysia, son of Telephus, depending on the account ) or more likely Podalirius the physician, both sons of the immortal physician Asclepius, to heal his wound permanently.
In Greek mythology, Machaon () was a son of Asclepius ; with his brother Podalirius, he led an army from Thessaly in the Trojan War on the side of the Greeks.
In Greek mythology, Podalirius or Podaleirius () was a son of Asclepius.
In Greek mythology, Telesphorus ( or Telesphoros ; ) was a son of Asclepius.
Because of him having killed Machaon, a son of Asclepius, his name was not to be pronounced in the temple of Asclepius in Pergamum.
Poimandres teaches the secrets of the Universe to Hermes, and later books are generally of Hermes teaching others such as Asclepius and his son Tat.
Reputed to be the birthplace of Apollo's son Asclepius, the healer, Epidaurus was known for its sanctuary situated about five miles ( 8 km ) from the town, as well as its theater, which is once again in use today.
Leucippus, son of Gorgophone and Perieres, was the father of Phoebe and Hilaeira, and also of Arsinoe, mother ( in some versions of the myth ) of Asclepius, by his wife Philodice, daughter of Inachus.
The specific epithet refers to Machaon, son of Asclepius in the works of Homer.

Asclepius and Apollo
I swear by Apollo Physician and Asclepius and Hygieia and Panaceia and all the gods and goddesses, making them my witnesses, that I will fulfill according to my ability and judgment this oath and this covenant:
I swear by Apollo, the healer, Asclepius, Hygieia, and Panacea, and I take to witness all the gods, all the goddesses, to keep according to my ability and my judgment, the following Oath and agreement:
* Arsinoe, daughter of Leucippus and possible mother of Asclepius by Apollo
" Apollo carried the baby to the centaur Chiron who raised Asclepius and instructed him in the art of medicine.
Some sources also stated that Asclepius was later resurrected as a god by Zeus to prevent any further feuds with Apollo.
The original Hippocratic Oath began with the invocation " I swear by Apollo the Physician and by Asclepius and by Hygieia and Panacea and by all the gods ..."
The original Hippocratic Oath began with the invocation " I swear by Apollo the Physician and by Asclepius and by Hygieia and Panacea and by all the gods ..."
The island is famous for the statue of Aphrodite ( the " Venus de Milo ", now in the Louvre ), and also for statues of the Greek god Asclepius ( now in the British Museum ) and the Poseidon and an archaic Apollo in Athens.
Numerous fine works of art have been found on this site, notably the Aphrodite in Paris, the Asclepius in London, and the Poseidon and the archaic Apollo in Athens.
The cult of Asclepius at Epidaurus is attested in the 6th century BC, when the older hill-top sanctuary of Apollo Maleatas was no longer spacious enough.
Pausanias quotes a Sidonian as saying that the Phoenicians claim Apollo as the father of Asclepius, as do the Greeks, but unlike them do not make his mother a mortal woman.
The Sidonian then continued with an allegory which explained that Apollo represented the sun, whose changing path imparts to the air its healthiness which is to be understood as Asclepius.
It is preceded by two lines of prose stating that the author was Isvllus, an Epidaurian, and that it was dedicated to Asclepius and Apollo of Malea.
It contains a few political remarks, showing general sympathy with an aristocratic form of government ; a self-congratulatory notice of the resolution, passed at the poets instigation, to arrange a solemn procession in honor of the two gods ; a paean ( no doubt for use in the procession ), chiefly occupied with the genealogical relations of Apollo and Asclepius ; a poem of thanks for the assistance rendered to Sparta by Asclepius against " Philip ", when he led an army against Sparta to put down the monarchy.
4581 Asclepius ( ) is a small asteroid of the Apollo group that makes close orbital passes with Earth.

Asclepius and keeping
This collection, which includes the Pœmandres and some addresses of Hermes to disciples Tat, Ammon and Asclepius, was said to have originated in the school of Ammonius Saccas and to have passed through the keeping of Michael Psellus: it is preserved in fourteenth century manuscripts.

Asclepius and death
Surrounded by Crito, his grieving friends and students, he is teaching, philosophizing, and in fact, thanking the God of Health, Asclepius, for the hemlock brew which will ensure a peaceful death ...
Asclepius ' death at the hands of Zeus illustrates man's inability to challenge the natural order that separates mortal men from the gods.
After Asclepius ' death, Zeus placed his body among the stars as the constellation Ophiuchus (" the Serpent Holder ").
Asclepius derived his name from healing soothingly and from deferring the withering that comes with death.
Gods and demigods such as Heracles ( better known by his Roman name, Hercules ), Asclepius ( a Greek physician who became a god ) and Isis of Egypt all were thought to have healed the sick and overcome death ( i. e. have raised people from the dead ).
Various other honors and distinctions were offered to him at Smyrna, but he refused them, and accepted only the office of priest of Asclepius, which he held until his death, about 180 according to some, at the age of 60, and according to others of 70.

Asclepius and at
Again, no expense was spared, and following his earlier liberal education, at 16 he began studies at the prestigious local sanctuary or Asclepieum dedicated to Asclepius, god of medicine, as a θεραπευτής ( therapeutes, or attendant ) for four years.
** Asteroid 4581 Asclepius approaches the Earth at a distance of 700, 000 kilometers.
The Temple of Asclepius at Epidauros had sculpture by Timotheos working with the architect Theodotos.
The most famous temple of Asclepius was at Epidaurus in north-eastern Peloponnese.
These snakes were introduced at the founding of each new temple of Asclepius throughout the classical world.
Pausanias remarked that, at the asclepieion of Titane in Sicyon ( founded by Alexanor, Asclepius ' grandson ), statues of Hygieia were covered by women's hair and pieces of Babylonian clothes.
Images of pilgrims and deities holding dogs occur at many Gaulish spring sanctuaries ; and live sacred dogs were kept at the temple of Asclepius at Epidaurus in the Peloponnese.
The most famous temple of Asclepius was at Epidaurus in north-eastern Peloponnese.
These snakes were introduced at the founding of each new temple of Asclepius throughout the classical world.
The rod of Asclepius has a representation on the Miscellaneous Symbols table of the Unicode Standard at U + 2695 ().
After Plutus ' eyesight is restored at the Temple of Asclepius, he formally becomes a member of Chremylus ' household.
The narrative uses the Greek phrase ὑγιὴς γενέσθαι hygies genesthai, which is not used anywhere in the Synoptic Gospels, but appears frequently in ancient testimonies to the healing powers of Asclepius ; the later narrative in the Gospel of John about Jesus washing Simon Peter's feet at the Last Supper, similarly uses the Greek term λούειν louein, which is a special term for washing in an Asclepieion, rather than the Greek word used elsewhere in the Johannine text to describe washing-νίπτειν niptein.
In the 1st century BC, natural caves to the east of the two pools were turned into small baths, as part of an asclepieion ; however, the Mishnah implies that at least one of these new pools was sacred to Fortuna, the goddess of fortune, rather than Asclepius, the god of healing.
His name was rediscovered in the course of excavations on the site of the temple of Asclepius at Epidaurus.

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