Aesculapius
deity earth Greek corroborated · 5
Aesculapius is a deity associated with healing in ancient Greek and Roman tradition. He is connected to Hygieia in healing cults and practices.
↻ synthesized from 5 sources
When
- First attested
- 800 BCE
- Attested period
- -800 – 2020
- Historical notes
- Ancient Greek healing god adopted into Roman religion, with cult centers throughout the classical world.
Relationships
- co occurs with
- Wollunqua, Danh-gbi, Quetzalcoatl, Eir, Aphrodite, drakaina, Hercules, Enodia, Kore, Nike
- syncretized with
- Asclepius
- allied with
- Hygieia, Telesphorus
- enemy of
- Zeus
- parent of
- Hygieia
- manifests as
- snake
- student of
- Cheiron
Mentioned by
Sources
wikipedia (3)
encyclopedia (2)
- peer reviewed
- peer reviewed
Source passages
“College of Aesculapius and Hygia”
#28664 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5
“Eurykles relates a dream Latro has about the god Aesculapius.”
#43199 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“His worship was introduced into Rome by order of the Sibylline books (293 B.C.), to avert a pestilence.”
#43810 · extracted by nvidia/nemotron-3-super-120b-a12b:free
“Serpent cults were well known in ancient Europe; there does not, it is true, appear to be much ground for supposing that Aesculapius was a serpent-god”
#44150 · extracted by openai/gpt-oss-20b:free
“Thus the stone is dedicated to the healing gods Aesculapius and Hygieia.”
#45142 · extracted by openai/gpt-oss-20b:free