[Roman - Asclepius] Is There A Doctor In The House?

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~ [( Is There A Doctor In The House? )] ~
An Endgame Quest

Welcome to the Quest thread for the Godling Anthony - Embodiment of Asclepius, the Roman God of Healing and Medicine. The first doctor, and physician to the Gods.

OBVIOUSLY UNFINISHED

 

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Anthony

Name: Anthony Cato Roman
But you can call me... 'Tony', 'Cato', 'Cat'
Age: Ten
God: Asclepius [God of Healing of Medicine]

Appearance:
Anthony looks pretty much like any happy, curly-haired ten-year-old you may be acquainted with. He's not very big, and is a little small for his age, but the rest of his personality more than makes up for the lack in size. The build of his body makes him thinner than most children, but he is not unhealthy, despite the fact that he may sometimes look so. His hair is blonde - almost golden - and sits about his head in a mop of unruly curls that don't seem to do what he asks of them. His skin is pale, and his eyes soft brown. The clothing he wears is pretty much whatever he manages to get his hands on, as he really doesn't care about brands and the like, being the age he is. He is from Middling, so he pretty much wears anything under the sun.
He carries no personal relics or artifacts with him, but does have a child-size professional stethoscope that he found somewhere, and doesn't seem to remember where. He always has that with him, usually around his neck. When he sleeps, it is always under his pillow.

Personality:
In a war of Gods on Gods, Tony's personality is his sole defense. His powers are more protective than offensive, but it is a fact that matters little to him. He's one of those people that's very easy to get along with. Hard to get angry, and even harder to break ties with, he prefers to be a friend to everyone, and have no enemies. He moves around with a perpetual smile written on that face, and it is difficult to catch him in a serious or depressed mood. He can't help but to care for anyone in need, as this is his nature, and he always puts others before himself.

Information on Asclepius

[Taken from Wikipedia]
Asclepius (Greek Άσκληπιός, transliterated Asklēpiós; Latin Aesculapius) was the demigod of medicine and healing in ancient Greek mythology. Asclepius represents the healing aspect of the medical arts, while his daughters Hygieia, Meditrina, Iaso, Aceso, Aglæa/Ægle and Panacea (literally, "all-healing") symbolize the forces of cleanliness, medicine and healing, respectively.

Mythology

Asclepius was married to Epione, with whom he had six daughters: Hygieia, Meditrina (the serpent-bearer), Panacea, Aceso, Iaso, and Aglaea, and three sons: Machaon, Telesphoros, and Podalirius. He also bore a son, Aratus, with Aristodama.

Coronis (or Arsinoe) became pregnant with Asclepius by Apollo but fell in love with Ischys, son of Elatus. A crow informed Apollo of the affair and he sent his sister, Artemis, to kill Coronis. Her body was burned on a funeral pyre, staining the white feathers of the crows permanently black. Apollo rescued the baby by performing the first caesarean section and gave it to the centaur Chiron to raise. Enraged by his grief, Coronis' father Phlegyas torched the Apollonian temple at Delphi, for which Apollo promptly killed him.


Chiron taught Asclepius the art of surgery, teaching him to be the most well-respected doctor of his day. According to the Pythian Odes of Pindar, Chiron also taught him the use of drugs, incantations and love potions. In The Library, Apollodorus claimed that Athena gave him a vial of blood from the Gorgons. Gorgon blood had magical properties: if taken from the left side of the Gorgon, it was a fatal poison; from the right side, the blood was capable of bringing the dead back to life. According to some, Asclepius fought alongside the Achaeans in the Trojan War, and cured Philoctetes of his famous snake bite. However, others have attributed this to either Machaon or Podalirius, Asclepius' sons, who Homer mentions repeatedly in his Iliad as talented healers. Asclepius, on the other hand, is only referred to by Homer in relation to Machaon and Podalirius.

Asclepius' powers were not appreciated by all, and his ability to revive the dead soon drew the ire of Zeus, who struck him down with a thunderbolt. According to some, Zeus was angered, specifically, by Asclepius' acceptance of money in exchange for resurrection. Others say that Zeus killed Asclepius after he agreed to resurrect Hippolytus at the behest of Artemis. Zeus may or may not have smitten Hippolytus with the same bolt. Either way, Asclepius' death at the hands of Zeus illustrates man's inability to challenge the natural order that separates mortal men from the gods.

In retaliation for Asclepius' murder at the hands of Zeus, Apollo killed the Cyclopes, who fashioned Zeus' thunderbolts. According to Euripides' play Alkestis, Apollo was then forced into the servitude of Admetus for nine years.


After he realized Asclepius' importance to the world of men, Zeus placed him in the sky as the constellation Ophiuchus. The name, "serpent-bearer," refers to the Rod of Asclepius, which was entwined with a single serpent. This symbol has now become a symbol for physicians across the globe. However, one should be careful not to confuse the Staff of Asclepius, which features a single serpent wrapped around a roughhewn branch, with the Caduceus of Mercury (Roman), or Karykeion of Hermes (Greek). The Caduceus, which features two intertwined serpents (rather than the single serpent in Asclepius' wand), as well as a pair of wings, has long been a symbol of commerce. It is thought that the two were first confused in the seventh century A.D., when alchemists often used the caduceus to symbolize their association with magical or "hermetic" arts.

The Greeks used the name Asclepius interchangeably with the then well known Egyptian genius Imhotep.  

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