Iaso

"Recovery, Healing." That is, Recovery, a daughter of Asclepius or Amphiaraus, and sister of Hygieia, was worshiped as the goddess of recovery; and in the temple of Amphiaraus at Oropus a part of the altar was dedicated to her, in common with Aphrodite, Panacea, Hygieia, and Athena Paeonia.

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References

Sources

  • Aristophanes. Plutus, 701, with the Scholiast.
  • Hesychius, s.v.
  • Pausanias. Description of Greece i, 34.2.
  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.

This article incorporates text from Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology (1870) by William Smith, which is in the public domain.