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

• Asclepius

Domains

• convalescence and recovery
• healing

Powers

• Bring the sick to completion of their recovery

Relations

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

Sources

• 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
• Paus. 2.11.7