entity_id,source_id,evidence_type,source_note
ENT_ASCLEPIUS,SRC_APOLLODORUS_LIBRARY,scholarly attestation,Library 3.10.3-4; son of Apollo and Coronis; raised by Chiron; learns healing; raises the dead; killed by Zeus with a thunderbolt; later deified
ENT_ASCLEPIUS,SRC_HOMERIC_HYMNS,direct attestation,"HH 16 (To Asclepius): the primary ancient hymn to Asclepius as a healer god; describes him as the son of Apollo and Coronis, raised by Chiron, who learned the art of healing; the hymn establishes his role as soother of harsh disease"
ENT_ASCLEPIUS,SRC_HOMER_ILIAD_ODYSSEY,direct attestation,"Asclepius is named in Iliad II.729-733 as the father of the two healers Machaon and Podalirius, who command men from Tricca; he is called ""the blameless physician""; this is the primary Homeric attestation of Asclepius, before his later development into a healer god"
ENT_ASCLEPIUS,SRC_PAUSANIAS_DESCRIPTION,direct attestation,"Pausanias visits the Asclepium at Epidaurus (Book 2.26-28): the most famous healing sanctuary in the ancient world; he describes the temple, the cult statue, the abaton (incubation hall), the miraculous healing tablets, and the sacred snakes; the primary ancient source for the Epidaurian Asclepius cult"
ENT_ASCLEPIUS,SRC_THEOI_DEIFIED,index attestation,Literary attestation in classical/mythographic tradition; cult evidence varies by entity.
ENT_ASCLEPIUS,SRC_THEOI_HOME,index attestation,"Attested in Theoi Project index (Greek gods, spirits, heroes in classical literature)."