The Greek god of medicine and healing, typically depicted with a serpent-entwined staff, later worshipped as a divine healer throughout the ancient Mediterranean world.
From Greek 'Asklepios,' originally a local Thessalian deity who became Pan-Hellenic. According to myth, he was the son of Apollo and a mortal woman, raised by the wise centaur Chiron to become the ultimate healer.
Asclepius got so good at resurrecting the dead that Zeus killed him with a thunderbolt out of jealousy—showing the ancient anxiety that if medicine gets too powerful, it disrupts the cosmic balance of death and fate itself!
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