Podalirius

Quartigod younger son of Asclepius by Epione; co-leader with Machaon of the Thessalian Achaean physician-contingent at Troy. Treated Philoctetes's suppurating Lemnian-snake wound at Troy per Apollodorus Epitome 5.8 — the second canonical Asclepiad physician-scene. Settled post-war in Caria where he founded Syrnos, the Carian Asclepiad-cult anchor. Father of Hippolochus and Syrnus.

Parentage

• father: AsclepiusHom. Il. 11.833 (primary)

Children

• Hippolochus
• Syrnus

Domains

• healing medicine

Powers

• Diagnose and heal the sick and wounded

Relations

• father: AsclepiusHom. Il. 11.833 (primary)
• mother: Epione (wife of Asclepius) · GreekAnonymous Erythraean Paean (primary)
• sibling: MachaonBrother through their shared parents Asclepius and Epione.Hom. Il. 2.732, 11.833 (primary)
• sibling: HygieiaAnonymous Erythraean Paean (primary)
• sibling: IasoAnonymous Erythraean Paean (primary)
• sibling: AcesoAnonymous Erythraean Paean (primary)
• sibling: AegleAnonymous Erythraean Paean (primary)
• sibling: PanaceaAnonymous Erythraean Paean (primary)
• half sibling: TelesphorusHalf-sibling through their shared father Asclepius; Telesphorus's mother is unspecified in primary sources.Pausanias 2.11.7 (primary)
• half sibling: Aratus of SicyonHalf-brother through their shared father Asclepius; Aratus is Asclepius's son by Aristodama.Pausanias 2.10.3 (primary)
• father of: HippolochusPausanias 3.26.10; Stephanus Byzantium s.v. Syrnos (primary)
• father of: SyrnusStephanus Byzantium s.v. Syrnos (primary)

Sources

• existence: Homer, Iliad 2.731-732, 11.833-836; Apollodorus, Epitome 3.14, 5.8; Pausanias 3.26.10; Lycophron, Alexandra 1047 with Tzetzes scholia; Stephanus Byzantium s.v. Syrnos; the Anonymous Erythraean Paean (Inscr. Erythrai 205) (primary)
• parentage: Hom. Il. 2.731-732, 11.833 (primary)