Asclepius

Role: healer · First appears: The Catalogues of Women and Eoiae · Fragments 61–80

The accounts of Asclepius’s parentage differ: one says that Coronis gave birth to him in the Dotian plain, while another names Arsinoe as his mother. In the latter account, Apollo is his father, and Arsinoe and Apollo also have a daughter, Eriopis.

Relationship record

Life events

• Coronis gave birth to Asclepius.(Homeric Hymn XVI · To Asclepius · 📍 the Dotian plain)
  • With: Coronis
  • “In the Dotian plain fair Coronis, daughter of King Phlegyas, bare him, a great joy to men, a soother of cruel pangs.”

The Catalogues of Women and Eoiae · Fragments 61–80

• parent: Arsinoe “to her and Apollo Asclepius and a daughter, Eriopis, were born:”
• parent: Coronis “Some say (Asclepius) was the son of Arsinoe, others of Coronis.”
• parent: Apollo “to her and Apollo Asclepius and a daughter, Eriopis, were born:”

Homeric Hymn XVI · To Asclepius

• parent: Apollo “Asclepius, son of Apollo and healer of sicknesses.”
• parent: Coronis “fair Coronis, daughter of King Phlegyas, bare him”

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Extracted from the original text of Hesiod and Homerica. Made with Rho MD.