person
Podalirius
Son of Asclepius and, with his brother Machaon, physician of the Greek army at Troy.
Reading notes
- The Art of Love §2.32 Podalirius
Greek physician at Troy, supreme in the healing art.
- The Cure for Love §10 Podalirius
Son of Asclepius and a healer in the Greek host at Troy; proverbial as the physician who cannot cure himself.
- Sorrows §5.6 Podalirius
The physician-son of Asclepius who never abandoned a patient he had taken on.