Apollo the Healer
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Apollo, in his aspect as the Healer, is invoked alongside Asclepius, Hygieia and Panacea in the Hippocratic Oath. He is a major Olympian god who also presides over medicine and the prevention of disease.
When
- First attested
- 500 BCE
- Attested period
- -500 – 2020
- Historical notes
- Apollo's healing aspect is attested in early Greek literary sources and later medical texts.
Relationships
- co occurs with
- Aesculapian snake
Sources
wikipedia (1)
Source passages
“The original Hippocratic Oath began with the invocation "I swear by Apollo the Healer and by Asclepius and by Hygieia and Panacea and by all the gods ..."”
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