Iaso

Quartigod daughter of Asclepius, personification of the healing-process. Listed in the Anonymous Erythraean Paean alongside her sisters Hygieia, Aceso, Aegle, Panacea. Cult-status as one of the four healing-personification Asclepiad daughters at the Asclepieia.

Parentage

• Asclepius

Powers

• Restore the sick to recovery from illness

Relations

• sibling: Telesphorus
• sibling: Aratus of Sicyon
• father: Asclepius
• sibling: Hygieia
• sibling: Aceso
• sibling: Aegle
• sibling: Panacea
• sibling: Machaon
• sibling: Podalirius

Sources

• Anonymous Erythraean Paean (Inscr. Erythrai 205, c.380 BCE); Aristophanes, Plutus 701; Suda s.v. Iasō
• Anon. Erythraean Paean