Telesphorus

Quartigod son of Asclepius, personification of the convalescence-completion phase of healing. The Asclepieion canonical-cult-triad — Asclepius, Hygieia, Telesphorus — represents the healing arc from intervention through health to recovery-completion. Telesphoros's hooded-child iconography became the canonical visual mark of the convalescence-stage in Greco-Roman medical-cult contexts.

Parentage

• father: AsclepiusPaus. 2.11.7 (primary)

Domains

• convalescence and recovery
• healing

Powers

• Bring the sick to completion of their recovery

Relations

• sibling: IasoFull sibling; shares the same complete attested parentage.
• sibling: AcesoFull sibling; shares the same complete attested parentage.
• sibling: AegleFull sibling; shares the same complete attested parentage.
• sibling: PanaceaFull sibling; shares the same complete attested parentage.
• sibling: Aratus of SicyonFull sibling; shares the same complete attested parentage.
• father: AsclepiusPaus. 2.11.7 (primary)
• half sibling: HygieiaCult-pair sibling at the Asclepieia.Paus. 2.11.7 (cult-pairing) (primary)
• half sibling: MachaonPaus. 2.11.7 (primary)
• half sibling: PodaliriusPaus. 2.11.7 (primary)

Sources

• existence: Pausanias, Description of Greece 2.11.7 (the Sicyon Asclepieion); numerous Pergamene Asclepieion inscriptions and votive-statues from the imperial period; LIMC entries for Telesphoros (primary)
• parentage: Paus. 2.11.7 (primary)