Aceso

Aceso (Greek: Ἀκεσώ) was the Greek goddess of the healing process.[1]

Aceso
Goddess of the healing process and curing of sickness
Personal information
ParentsAsclepius and Epione
Siblings

Family

Aceso was the daughter of Asclepius and Epione, sister of Iaso, Hygieia, Panacea, and Aegle.[2]

Mythology

Unlike her sister Panacea (Cure-All) she represented the process of a curing rather than the cure itself. Her male counterpart was Acesis (Akesis).[3] In Greek sculptural reliefs, Aceso appears alongside her father Asclepius and sisters Hygeia, Panacea and Iaso.

gollark: I'll just make all the rounds ridiculously favourable to me.
gollark: The only skill needed is being gollark.
gollark: The competition obviously should be set up so that I'll win.
gollark: Consider things like "luck" and "who has free time at the time".
gollark: You should obviously secretly bias the competition toward me.

References

  1. Aceso, on Theoi
  2. Suidas s.v. Epione (trans. Suda On Line) (Byzantine Greek Lexicon C10th A.D.)
  3. Nigel Guy Wilson, Encyclopedia of ancient Greece, Routledge, 2005, p.335
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