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Mythical Greek healer hero
Marble torso probably representing the son of
Asclepius , Machaon. 2nd century B.C. Ancient
Messene museum.
In
Greek mythology , Machaon (;
Ancient Greek : Μαχάων ,
romanized : Macháōn ) was a son of
Asclepius ; and the older brother of
Podalirius . He and his brother led an army from
Tricca in the
Trojan War on the side of the Greeks.
[1]
Description
In the account of
Dares the Phrygian , Machaon was illustrated as ". . . large and brave, dependable, prudent, patient, and merciful."
[2]
Family
Machaon fathered
Nicomachus and
Gorgasus by
Anticleia , daughter of
Diocles of
Pharae .
[3] His other sons were
Alexanor ,
[4]
Sphyrus
[5] and
Polemocrates .
[6]
According to
Diogenes Laertius 's
Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers ,
Hermippus , in his book On Aristotle, places Machaon as the son of
Asclepius , father of
Nicomachus , and ancestor of
Aristotle .
[7]
Mythology
Both Machaon and Podalirius were highly valued surgeons and medics.
[8] In the
Iliad , he was wounded and put out of action by
Paris .
[9] Machaon (or his brother) healed
Philoctetes ,
Telephus and
Menelaus , after he sustained an arrow at the hand of
Pandarus , during the war. He was also supposed to possess herbs which were bestowed to his father Asclepius by
Chiron , the centaur.
[10]
He was killed by
Eurypylus in the tenth year of the war.
[11] He was buried in
Gerenia in
Messenia , where he was worshiped by the people.
Legacy
Mythology
^
Homer ,
Iliad 2.729–32
^
Dares Phrygius , History of the Fall of Troy
13
^
Pausanias , 4.30.2
^ Pausanias, 2.11.5, 2.23.4 & 2.38.6
^ Pausanias, 2.23.4
^ Pausanias, 2.38.6
^ Diogenes Laertius (1925). "Lives of Eminent Philosophers 5.1. Aristotle".
doi :
10.4159/dlcl.diogenes_laertius-lives_eminent_philosophers_book_v_chapter_1_aristotle.1925 .
^ Homer, Iliad 2.273
^ Homer, Iliad 11.506
^ Homer, Iliad 4.219
^
Quintus Smyrnaeus , 6.408
^ Schmadel, Lutz D. (2003) Dictionary of minor planet names, Springer - p.252
References
Dares Phrygius , from The Trojan War. The Chronicles of
Dictys of Crete and Dares the Phrygian translated by Richard McIlwaine Frazer, Jr. (1931-). Indiana University Press. 1966.
Online version at theio.com
Diogenes Laertius , Lives of Eminent Philosophers edited by R.D. Hicks. Cambridge. Harvard University Press. 1972 (First published 1925).
Online version at the Perseus Digital Library .
Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library .
Homer ,
The Iliad with an English Translation by A.T. Murray, Ph.D. in two volumes. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1924.
ISBN
978-0674995796 .
Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
Homer, Homeri Opera in five volumes. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 1920.
ISBN
978-0198145318 .
Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library .
Pausanias , Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918.
ISBN
0-674-99328-4 .
Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols . Leipzig, Teubner. 1903.
Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library .
Quintus Smyrnaeus , The Fall of Troy translated by Way. A. S. Loeb Classical Library Volume 19. London: William Heinemann, 1913.
Online version at theio.com
Quintus Smyrnaeus, The Fall of Troy . Arthur S. Way. London: William Heinemann; New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. 1913.
Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library .
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