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Asclepius

[ uh-sklee-pee-uhs ]

noun

Classical Mythology.
  1. a son of Apollo and the ancient Greek god of medicine and healing, worshiped by the Romans as Aesculapius.


Asclepius

/ əˈːɪə /

noun

  1. Greek myth a god of healing; son of Apollo Roman counterpartAesculapiusˌiːskjʊˈleɪpɪəs
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Noted in the writings of Asclepius, among others of the ancients.

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Asclepius, the Greek god of healing, cured people by touching them.

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Sneed focused on the fourth century B.C.E., when sanctuaries to Asclepius proliferated.

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The first was in those he taught: like the father of medicine, Asclepius, who in turn was said to have taught Hippocrates.

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To Price, his museum’s logo — the two flags separated by the Rod of Asclepius, a symbol of the Greek god of medicine and healing — no longer represented the broader story of the museum’s three outposts.

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