Aesculapius

First appears: Apollodorus, Library 3.10

🌐 Also appears in: The Iliad (as Aesculapius) · The Metamorphoses of Ovid (as Æsculapius)

Life events

Apollo rescued Aesculapius from Coronis’s pyre and brought him to Chiron.(Apollodorus, Library 3.10)
- With: Apollo Chiron Coronis
- “As she was burning, he snatched the babe from the pyre and brought it to Chiron, the centaur, by whom he was brought up and taught the arts of healing and hunting.”
Zeus killed Aesculapius with a thunderbolt to prevent mortals learning his healing art.(Apollodorus, Library 3.10)
- With: Zeus
- “But Zeus, fearing that men might acquire the healing art from him and so come to the rescue of each other, smote him with a thunderbolt.”

parent: Apollo “with her Apollo had intercourse, and she bore Aesculapius.”
parent: Arsinoe “with her Apollo had intercourse, and she bore Aesculapius.”
parent: Coronis “But some affirm that Aesculapius was not a son of Arsinoe, daughter of Leucippus, but that he was a son of Coronis”
guardian: Apollo “As she was burning, he snatched the babe from the pyre and brought it to Chiron”
mentor: Chiron “by whom he was brought up and taught the arts of healing and hunting.”
with Zeus (Zeus killed Aesculapius.) “Zeus ... smote him with a thunderbolt.”
patron: Athena “for he had received from Athena the blood that flowed from the veins of the Gorgon”

Extracted from the original text of Greek Mythology. Made with Rho MD.