Iaso
Greek · quartigod · heroic age · Recorded classification
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
- father: AsclepiusAnon. Erythraean Paean (primary)
Powers
- Restore the sick to recovery from illness
Relations
- sibling: TelesphorusFull sibling; shares the same complete attested parentage.
- sibling: Aratus of SicyonFull sibling; shares the same complete attested parentage.
- father: AsclepiusAnon. Erythraean Paean (primary)
- sibling: HygieiaAnon. Erythraean Paean (primary)
- sibling: AcesoAnon. Erythraean Paean (primary)
- sibling: AegleAnon. Erythraean Paean (primary)
- sibling: PanaceaAnon. Erythraean Paean (primary)
- sibling: MachaonAnon. Erythraean Paean (primary)
- sibling: PodaliriusAnon. Erythraean Paean (primary)
Sources
- existence: Anonymous Erythraean Paean (Inscr. Erythrai 205, c.380 BCE); Aristophanes, Plutus 701; Suda s.v. Iasō (primary)
- parentage: Anon. Erythraean Paean (primary)