This man's name comes from the word for "to cut open," because he was cut out of his mother's womb on her funeral pyre; that mother was Coronis.
Visions this god sent to Aelius Aristides are detailed in Aristides' Sacred Discourses, an important description of pagan religiosity. After predicting the future of this god, Chiron's daughter Ocyrhoe metamorphosed into a horse. Ovid relates that this god's cult arrived at Rome when he sailed to an island in the Tiber as a snake. In Greece, devotees worshiped this father of Machaon by (*) "incubating" in his shrines to receive dreams, especially at Epidaurus. This man's name comes from the word for "to cut open," because he was cut out of his mother's womb on her funeral pyre; that mother was Coronis. Zeus' Cyclopes were killed for forging the thunderbolt that slew this man, who had displayed hubris by raising the dead. For 10 points, name this son of Apollo, the Greek god of medicine.
Visions this god sent to Aelius Aristides are detailed in Aristides' Sacred Discourses, an important description of pagan religiosity.
Asclepius