“The Offering to Asclepius” by Pierre Narcisse Guerin (1803).
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“Gentle Asclepius, that craftsman of new health for weary limbs and banisher of pain, the godlike healer of all mortal sickness”.
[Pindar, Pythian Ode 3. 5 ff. C5th BC].–
Asclepius (Roman equivalent: Aesculapius) was the son of Apollo and a mortal woman named Coronis.
While Coronis was with Apollo, she became enamoured with Ischys, an Arcadian, and Apollo was informed of this by a raven, which he had set to watch her, or, according to Pindar, by his own prophetic powers.
Apollo sent his own sister, Artemis to kill Coronis. Presumably, Artemis destroyed Coronis in her own house at Lacereia in Thessaly.
According to Ovid, it was Apollo himself who killed Coronis and Ischys.
When the body of Coronis was to be burnt, Apollo, or, according to others Hermes, the messenger of the Gods…
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Beautiful sky in the feminist country of Iceland. Photo via Pixabay, CC0 Public Domain. 
Historians and others still tend to insist that he built the ship Great Eastern amongst other things, not forgetting the railway lines across the United Kingdom that he contracted to provide. But, just like Henry VIII and Sir Christopher Wren, Brunel did not actually get his hands dirty physically building anything he is acknowledged as being responsible for!
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