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Asclepius
[ uh-sklee-pee-uhs ]
noun
Classical Mythology.
- a son of Apollo and the ancient Greek god of medicine and healing, worshiped by the Romans as Aesculapius.
Asclepius
/ əˈːɪə /
noun
- Greek myth a god of healing; son of Apollo Roman counterpartAesculapiusˌiːskjʊˈleɪpɪəs
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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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