Asclepiades is the name of: * An

epithet An epithet (, ), also byname, is a descriptive term (word or phrase) known for accompanying or occurring in place of a name and having entered common usage. It has various shades of meaning when applied to seemingly real or fictitious people, di ...

for the children of Asclepius;

Hygieia Hygieia is a goddess from Greek, as well as Roman, mythology (also referred to as: Hygiea or Hygeia; ; grc, Ὑγιεία or , la, Hygēa or ). Hygieia is a goddess of health ( el, ὑγίεια – ''hugieia''), cleanliness and hygiene. Her ...

Iaso Iaso (; el, Ἰασώ, ''Iasō'') or Ieso (; el, Ἰησώ, ''Iēsō'') was the Greek goddess of recuperation from illness. The daughter of Asclepius, she had four sisters: Aceso, Aglæa/Ægle, Hygieia, and Panacea. All five were associated wi ...

Aceso Aceso ( grc, Ἀκεσώ) was the Greek goddess of the healing process. Family Aceso was the daughter of Asclepius and Epione, sister of Iaso, Hygieia, Panacea, and Aegle. Mythology Unlike her sister Panacea (Cure-All), she represented ...

Aegle Aegle may refer to: * Aegle (mythology), a number of characters from Greek mythology * 96 Aegle Aegle ( minor planet designation: 96 Aegle) is a carbonaceous asteroid and the namesake of the Aegle family located in the outer regions of the ast ...

Panacea In Greek mythology, Panacea (Greek ''Πανάκεια'', Panakeia), a goddess of universal remedy, was the daughter of Asclepius and Epione. Panacea and her four sisters each performed a facet of Apollo's art: * Panacea (the goddess of universal ...

, Meditrina, Machaon, Podaleirios, Telesphoros, Aratus * Asclepiades of Alexandria, grammarian from around the 5th century BC * Asclepiades of Anazarba, historian of uncertain age, from Anazarbus *

Asclepiades of Tragilus Asclepiades of Tragilus ( el, Ἀσκληπιάδης) was an ancient Greek literary critic and mythographer of the 4th century BC, and a student of the Athenian orator Isocrates. His works do not survive, but he is known to have written the ''Trago ...

(4th century BC), critic and mythographer, author of ''Tragoidoumena'', cited in the ''Bibliotheca'' *

Asclepiades of Phlius Asclepiades is the name of: * An epithet for the children of Asclepius; Hygieia, Iaso, Aceso, Aegle, Panacea, Meditrina, Machaon, Podaleirios, Telesphoros, Aratus * Asclepiades of Tragilus (4th century BC), critic and mythographer, author of ''Tra ...

( fl. 4th–3rd century BC), philosopher in the Eretrian school of Philosophy *

Asclepiades of Samos Asclepiades of Samos (Sicelidas) ( el, Ἀσκληπιάδης ὁ Σάμιος; born c. 320 BC) was an ancient Greek epigrammatist and lyric poet who flourished around 270 BC. He was a friend of Hedylus and possibly of Theocritus. He may have bee ...

( fl. 3rd century BC), lyric poet * Asclepiades of Cyprus, writer of around the 3rd century BC *

Asclepiades of Myrlea Asclepiades of Myrlea ( el, Ἀσκληπιάδης ὁ Μυρλεανός) was a Greek grammarian, historian and astronomer disciple of Apollonius of Rhodes born in Myrlea (Bithynia) that lived in the 2nd and 1st centuries BC. At the time of Pomp ...

( fl. 2nd-1st century BC), Greek historian and grammarian in Rome and Spain * Asclepiades of Bithynia ( fl. c. 120–c. 40 BC), philosopher and physician from Prusa, Bithynia *

Caius Calpurnius Asclepiades of Prusa Caius Calpurnius Asclepiades of Prusa (aka "Phylophysicus", one of several men referred to as Asclepiades of Prusa) was an eminent physician who flourished in the second century during the reign of Hadrian. Born in Prusia, Bithynia in 88 CE, he w ...

, b. 88 CE, second century physician *

Asclepiades Pharmacion Asclepiades Pharmacion or Asclepiades Junior ( el, Ἀσκληπιάδης; fl. 1st–2nd century) was a Greek physician. He is believed to have lived at the end of the 1st or the beginning of the 2nd century AD, as he quotes Andromachus, Diosc ...

( fl. 1st–2nd century), Greek physician *

Asclepiades of Antioch Asclepiades of Antioch ( el, Ἀσκληπιάδης) was Patriarch of Antioch and martyr. He succeeded Serapion as Patriarch of Antioch in 211. He was given the title of martyr A martyr (, ''mártys'', "witness", or , ''marturia'', stem , '' ...

(died 217), Patriarch of Antioch, Christian saint and martyr * Asclepiades ( fl. c. 250), Christian saint and martyr (see

Pionius The Martyrdom of Pionius is an account dating from about 250AD to 300 AD of the martyrdom of a Christian from Smyrna named Pionius. It is also known as The Martyrdom of Pionius the Presbyter and His Companions, The Acts of Pionius, and in Latin as ...

) * Asclepiades the Cynic ( fl. 4th century), Cynic philosopher

See also