Nicomachus

Scion-tier son of Machaon, co-founder of the Pharae Asclepieion in Messenia per Pausanias 4.30.3. The Pharae cult-foundation continues the Asclepiad-physician line into the Messenian post-Bronze-Age period.

Parentage

• Machaon

Domains

• healing medicine

Powers

• Heal diseases and cure the maimed

Relations

• father: Machaon
• sibling: Gorgasus

Sources

• Pausanias, Description of Greece 4.30.3 (the Pharae Asclepieion foundation)
• Paus. 4.30.3