Epione
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In Greek mythology, Epione was the wife of Asclepius and mother of Panacea, the goddess of medicines, Hygieia, the goddess of health. She was probably also the mother of the famous physicians Machaon and Podalirius, who are mentioned in the Iliad of Homer.
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genus (plural: genera) is part of the Latinized name for an organism. It is a name which reflects the classification of the organism by grouping it with other closely similar organisms.
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Greek mythology is the body of stories belonging to the Ancient Greeks concerning their gods and heroes, the nature of the world and the origins and significance of their own cult and ritual practices.
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Asclepius (Greek Ἀσκληπιός, transliterated Asklēpiós; Latin Aesculapius) is the demigod of medicine and healing in ancient Greek mythology.
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Panacea (Greek Πανάκεια, Panakeia) was the goddess of cures. She was the daughter of Asclepius, god of medicine, and the granddaughter of Apollo, god of healing (among other things).
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Hygieia (Roman equivalent: Salus) was a daughter of Asclepius. She was the goddess of health, cleanliness and sanitation (and later: the moon), and played an important part in her father's cult (see also: asklepieion).
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- For the Machaon of the Trojan War, see Machaon (mythology).
Machaon was a general of ancient Sparta.
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In Greek mythology, Podalirius (Gr. Ποδαλείριος / PodaleÃrios) was a son of Asclepius.
With Machaon, his brother, he led thirty ships from Thessaly in the Trojan War on the side of the Greeks (Iliad
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With Machaon, his brother, he led thirty ships from Thessaly in the Trojan War on the side of the Greeks (Iliad
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Homer is the name given to the purported author of the early Greek poems the Iliad and the Odyssey. It is now generally believed that they were composed by illiterate aoidoi (rhapsodes) in an oral tradition in the 8th or 7th century BC.
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