Greek mythology
Asclepius
God of medicine and healing
- Mythology
- Greek mythology
- Group
- Olympians · Divine
- Appears in
- Apollo
Asclepius is the mortal son of Apollo who masters the healing arts so completely that he can raise the dead. For overturning the natural order Zeus strikes him down with a thunderbolt, then sets him among the stars and the gods as the divine patron of physicians, his serpent-twined staff the emblem of medicine ever since.
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