Her name is derived from the word ἤπιος (epios, "soothing"). Epione was the personification of the soothing of pain and the care needed for recovery.[1] With Asclepius, she was the mother of the five Asclepiades:
Aceso,
Aglaea,
Hygieia,
Iaso,
Achelois and
Panacaea, as listed in the
Suda.[2] She also had two sons,
Machaon and
Podalirius, who are mentioned in the Iliad of
Homer[3] as well as
Telesphoros.[4]
Epigraphical evidence suggests that Epione was a cultic figure in
Athens,
Epidauros,
Kos, and
Pergamon.[1] Asclepius and Epione both had marble statues in
Argolis, where Asclepius was widely worshipped.
"
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
Look up Epione in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Her name is derived from the word ἤπιος (epios, "soothing"). Epione was the personification of the soothing of pain and the care needed for recovery.[1] With Asclepius, she was the mother of the five Asclepiades:
Aceso,
Aglaea,
Hygieia,
Iaso,
Achelois and
Panacaea, as listed in the
Suda.[2] She also had two sons,
Machaon and
Podalirius, who are mentioned in the Iliad of
Homer[3] as well as
Telesphoros.[4]
Epigraphical evidence suggests that Epione was a cultic figure in
Athens,
Epidauros,
Kos, and
Pergamon.[1] Asclepius and Epione both had marble statues in
Argolis, where Asclepius was widely worshipped.
"
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
Look up Epione in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.