Æsculapius

Family: Gods · Role: divine child and healer · First appears: Fable 25

Fable 25

• mentor: Chiron (The divine pupil is Æsculapius.) “In the meantime the half-beast {Chiron} was proud of a pupil of Divine origin, and rejoiced in the honor annexed to the responsibility.”
• with Ocyrrhoe (Ocyrrhoe addresses and prophesies about Æsculapius.) “Grow on, child, the giver of health to the whole world; the bodies of mortals shall often owe their {own existence} to thee.”

Fable 110

• parent: Coronis “whence {it is that} the Island surrounded by the channel of the Tiber introduced the son of Coronis into the sacred rites of the City of Romulus.”
• parent: Apollo “thou hast no need of Apollo to diminish thy grief, but of the son of Apollo.”

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Extracted from the original text of The Metamorphoses of Ovid. Made with Rho MD.