Coronis

First appears: Apollodorus, Library 3.10

🌐 Also appears in: The Metamorphoses of Ovid (as Coronis)

Life events

• Apollo rescued Aesculapius from Coronis’s pyre and brought him to Chiron.(Apollodorus, Library 3.10)
  • With: Apollo Aesculapius Chiron
  • “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.”

Apollodorus, Library 3.10

• child: Aesculapius “But some affirm that Aesculapius was not a son of Arsinoe, daughter of Leucippus, but that he was a son of Coronis”
• courtship with Apollo “they say that Apollo loved her and at once consorted with her”
• courtship with Ischys “she, against her father's judgment, preferred and cohabited with Ischys”
• parent: Phlegyas “Coronis, daughter of Phlegyas in Thessaly”

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