Epione

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Asclepius and Epione with one of their sons on a 4th-century BC marble votive relief, Archaeological Museum of Patras, Greece.

In Greek mythology, Epione (Template:Langx) is a minor health goddess, the wife of Asclepius, the Greek god of healing and medicine.<ref name=EAH>Template:Cite encyclopedia</ref>

Mythology

Her name is derived from the word Template:Lang (Template:Transliteration, "soothing"). Epione was the personification of the soothing of pain and the care needed for recovery.<ref name=EAH/> With Asclepius, she was the mother of the five Asclepiades: Iaso, Panacea, Hygieia, Aceso, and Aegle, as listed in the Suda.<ref>Suda, "Epione"</ref> She also had two sons, Machaon and Podalirius, who are mentioned in the Iliad of Homer<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> as well as Telesphoros.<ref>Pausanias, 2.29.1; Scholiast on Pindar's Pythian Odes 3.14</ref>

Epigraphical evidence suggests that Epione was a cultic figure in Athens, Epidauros, Kos, and Pergamon.<ref name=EAH/> Asclepius and Epione both had marble statues in Argolis, where Asclepius was widely worshipped.

See also

• List of Greek deities

Sources

• "Suida", Suda Encyclopedia translated by Ross Scaife, David Whitehead, William Hutton, Catharine Roth, Jennifer Benedict, Gregory Hays, Malcolm Heath Sean M. Redmond, Nicholas Fincher, Patrick Rourke, Elizabeth Vandiver, Raphael Finkel, Frederick Williams, Carl Widstrand, Robert Dyer, Joseph L. Rife, Oliver Phillips and many others. Online version at the Topos Text Project.

External links

• EPIONE from The Theoi Project

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