Epione

Numen — minor healing-goddess of the soothing of pain, wife of Asclepius (greek_asclepius, whose father-of relations to Machaon, Podalirius, Hygieia, Iaso, Aceso, Aegle, Panacea already stand) and mother of his physician-children. Authored as the named-but-absent mother supplied by the prose of greek_apollod_machaon ('Son of Asclepius ... by Epione') and greek_apollod_podalirius ('Son of Asclepius by Epione'). Telesphorus and Aratus are listed as half-siblings on the corpus children (by other mothers/the serpent-conception), so Epione is wired only to the seven shared Epione-children; her father Merops of Kos is named rather than wired.

Domains

• soothing of pain
• healing

Powers

• Soothing of pain

Epithets

• Ἠπιόνη — the Soothing OneSuda s.v. Epione (from ηπιος, 'gentle, soothing') (primary)

Relations

• spouse: AsclepiusWife of Asclepius.Paus. 2.29.1; schol. Hom. Il. 11.518 (primary)
• mother of: Machaonschol. Hom. Il. 11.518; Apollod. 3.10.3 (primary)
• mother of: Podaliriusschol. Hom. Il. 11.518; Apollod. 3.10.3 (primary)
• mother of: HygieiaSuda s.v. Epione; schol. Aristid. p. 35 (primary)
• mother of: PanaceaSuda s.v. Epione (primary)
• mother of: IasoSuda s.v. Epione (primary)
• mother of: AcesoSuda s.v. Epione (primary)
• mother of: AegleSuda s.v. Epione (primary)

Sources

• existence: Pausanias 2.29.1; Suda s.v. Epione; scholia Homer Iliad 11.518; IG IV2 1.255 (Epidauros) (primary)
• motherhood-of-the-Asclepiad-children: scholia Homer Iliad 11.518; Suda s.v. Epione; Apollodorus 3.10.3 (primary)