| LC control no. | no2015101384 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Asklepios (Greek deity) |
| Variant(s) | Asclepius (Greek deity) Asclepio (Greek deity) Ασκληπιος (Greek deity) Asclepiu (Greek deity) Asklepi (Greek deity) Асклепій (Greek deity) Asklepiĭ (Greek deity) Асклепий (Greek deity) Asklepije (Greek deity) Asclepi (Greek deity) Æskulap (Greek deity) Asklepio (Greek deity) Asclépios (Greek deity) Esculapio (Greek deity) אסקלפיוס (Greek deity) Asḳlepiyos (Greek deity) Asḳlepyos (Greek deity) Aesculapius (Greek deity) Asklēpijs (Greek deity) Asklepijas (Greek deity) Asklepijus (Greek deity) Eskulapas (Greek deity) Aszklépiosz (Greek deity) Асклепиј (Greek deity) Asklepij (Greek deity) Ескулап (Greek deity) Eskulap (Greek deity) アスクレーピオス (Greek deity) Asukurēpiosu (Greek deity) Asklepiy (Greek deity) Asklepiu (Greek deity) Асклепије (Greek deity) 阿斯克勒庇俄斯 (Greek deity) Asikeleibiesi (Greek deity) |
| See also | Aesculapius (Roman deity) Eshmun (Phoenician deity) |
| Associated country | Greece |
| Special note | Non-Latin script references not evaluated. |
| Found in | Hart, Gerald D. Asclepius, the god of medicine, 2000. Aleshire, Sara B. Asklepios at Athens, 1991. Walton, Alice. The cult of Asklepios, 1894. Wickkiser, Bronwen Lara. Asklepios, medicine, and the politics of healing in fifth-century Greece, 2008. Solimano, Giannina. Asclepio : le aree del mito, 1976. Encyclopædia Britannica online, August 1, 2015 (Asclepius; Greco-Roman god. Alternative titles: Aesculapius; Asklepios. Asclepius, Greek Asklepios, Latin Aesculapius, Greco-Roman god of medicine, son of Apollo (god of healing, truth, and prophecy) and the mortal princess Coronis) <http://www.britannica.com/topic/Asclepius> Theoi Greek mythology website, August 1, 2015 (Asklepios (or Asclepius) was the god of medicine and reputed ancestor of the Asklepiades, the ancient Greek doctors' guild; son of Apollon and the Trikkaian princess Koronis; Greek name: Ασκληπιος = Asklēpios; Latin spelling: Aesculapius) <http://www.theoi.com/Ouranios/Asklepios.html> Mythography website, August 1, 2015 (In Greek mythology, Asklepios (Asclepius) was the god of healing. He was the son of the Olympian god Apollo and a mortal woman named Coronis; Asklepios was known as Aesculapius in Roman mythology) <http://www.loggia.com/myth/asklepios.html> GreekMythology.com, August 1, 2015 (Asclepius was the ancient Greek god of medicine, son of the god Apollo and Coronis, the daughter of Phlegyas, King of the Lapiths. Asclepius is also called Vejovis, Vejove, Vediovis, Aesculapius) <http://www.greekmythology.com/Other_Gods/Asclepius/asclepius.html> Encyclopedia mythica, via WWW, August 1, 2015 (Asclepius was a Greek hero who later become the Greek god of medicine and healing. The son of Apollo and Coronis, Asclepius had five daughters, Aceso, Iaso, Panacea, Aglaea and Hygieia. He was worshipped throughout the Greek world but his most famous sanctuary was located in Epidaurus which is situated in the northeastern Peloponnese; The Romans adopted the cult of Asclepius, but changed his name to Latin; they called him Aesculapius) <http://www.pantheon.org/articles/a/asclepius.html> Brewer's dictionary of phrase and fable, 2009, via Credo reference, December 16, 2011 (Aesculapius: The Latin form of the Greek Asklepios, god of medicine and of healing, son of Apollo and father of Hygeia) Wikipedia, August 1, 2015 (Asclepius (Greek: Ασκληπιός = Asklēpios; Latin: Aesculapius) was a god of medicine in ancient Greek religion and mythology) Asturian page (Asclepiu) Azerbaijani page (Asklepi [in roman]) Belarusian page (Асклепій = Asklepiĭ) Bulgarian page (Асклепий = Asklepiĭ) Bosnian page (Asklepije) Catalan page (Asclepi) Corsican page (Asclepiu) Danish page (Æskulap) Greek page (Ασκληπιός = Asklēpios) Spanish page (Asclepio) Esperanto page (Asklepio) French page (Asclépios) Croatian page (Asklepije) Italian page (Asclepio or Esculapio) Hebrew page (אסקלפיוס = Asḳlepiyos or Asḳlepyos) Latin page (Aesculapius) Latvian page (Asklēpijs) Lithuanian page (Asklepijas; Asklepijus; Eskulapas) Hungarian page (Aszklépiosz) Macedonian page (Асклепиј = Asklepij; Ескулап = Eskulap) Japanese page (アスクレーピオス = Asukurēpiosu) Occitan page (Asclèpi) Uzbek page (Asklepiy [in roman]) Portuguese page (Asclépio) Romanian page (Asclepios) Russian page (Асклепий = Asklepiĭ) Albanian page (Asklepiu) Slovenian page (Asklepij) Serbian page (Асклепије = Asklepije) Ukrainian page (Асклепій = Asklepiĭ) Chinese page (阿斯克勒庇俄斯 = Asikeleibiesi) Encyclopedia of religion, ©2005, via Encyclopedia.com, viewed July 22, 2019 (Eshmun was a Phoenician healer god, later identified with Asklepios, the patron of medicine, by the Greeks and the Romans; in the Roman period, Eshmun, who was named Aesculapius, continued to play an important role in the religious life of Carthage; Eshmun, under the name Aesculapius or Apollo, is also documented in Bulla Regia, Maktar, Lambesa, Oea, and elsewhere, but it is not easy to distinguish between the possible Punic roots and the Roman manifestations) <https://www.encyclopedia.com/environment/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/eshmun> Phoenician religion, via Ancient history encyclopedia website, July 22, 2019 (A third important god at Sidon was Eshmun, who does not appear before the 7th century BCE and was the equivalent of Adonis. Temples were built in his name and he was associated with healing, hence the Greeks identified him as their Asclepius) <https://www.ancient.eu/Phoenician_Religion/> |
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