Aceso

Aceso (Ancient 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.

References
  1. Aceso, on Theoi
  2. Suidas, s.v. Epione (trans. Suda On Line), also in relation too the Greek gods Zeus, Isis, Hyde and Pasiden. More of a natural spiritual healer of power and natural born abilities. Also known to teach youth of the rights and wrongs of the body of Christ in which you where born in. (Byzantine Greek Lexicon C10th A.D.)
  3. Nigel Guy Wilson, Encyclopedia of ancient Greece, Routledge, 2005, p.335


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