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Machaon

deity earth Greek single tradition · 3

Machaon is one of the five children of Lampetia and Asclepius according to Hermippus' Trimeters.

↻ synthesized from 3 sources

When

First attested
500 BCE
Attested period
-500 – 2020
Historical notes
Machaon is attested from the 3rd c. BCE.

Relationships

sibling of
Aratus, Podaleirius, Podalirius, Panacea, Iaso, Aegle, Telesphoros, Aceso, Hygieia, Podaleirios
parent of
Polemocrates
co occurs with
Aristodeme, Aratus, Telesphoros, Helios, Phaethon, Neaera, Clymene, Phoebe, Phaethusa, Merope, Helie, Aetherie, Dioxippe, Asclepius
child of
Lampetia, Epione, Asclepius

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Mentioned by

Sources

wikipedia (3)
  1. Lampetia
  2. Aesculapius
  3. Aratus (mythology)

Source passages

“In Hermippus' Trimeters, he writes that Lampetia bore five children by Asclepius, the god of medicine: Machaon, Podaleirius, Iaso, Panacea, and Aegle.”

#28728 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5

“half-brother to Machaon”

#45138 · extracted by openai/gpt-oss-20b:free

“and three sons: Machaon, Podaleirios and Telesphoros”

#45455 · extracted by openai/gpt-oss-120b:free