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Asclepius (; , ''Asklēpiós'' (:asklɛːpiós); (ラテン語:Aesculapius)) was a god of medicine in ancient Greek religion and mythology. Asclepius represents the healing aspect of the medical arts; his daughters are Hygieia ("Hygiene", the goddess/personification of health, cleanliness, and sanitation), Iaso (the goddess of recuperation from illness), Aceso (the goddess of the healing process), Aglæa/Ægle (the goddess of beauty, splendor, glory, magnificence, and adornment), and Panacea (the goddess of universal remedy). He was associated with the Roman/Etruscan god Vediovis. He was one of Apollo's sons, sharing with Apollo the epithet ''Paean'' ("the Healer").〔Mitchell-Boyask, (p. 141 )〕 The rod of Asclepius, a snake-entwined staff, remains a symbol of medicine today. Those physicians and attendants who served this god were known as the Therapeutae of Asclepius. ==Etymology== The etymology of the name is unknown. In his revised version of Frisk's ''Griechisches etymologisches Wörterbuch'' (''Greek Etymological Dictionary''), R. S. P. Beekes gives this summary of the different attempts: :"H. Grégoire (with R. Goossens and M. Mathieu) in ''Asklépios, Apollon Smintheus et Rudra'' 1949 (Mém. Acad. Roy. de Belgique. Cl. d. lettres. 2. sér. 45), explains the name as 'the mole-hero', connecting 'mole' and refers to the resemblance of the Tholos in Epidauros and the building of a mole. (Thus Puhvel, ''Comp. Mythol''. 1987, 135.) But the variants of Asklepios and those of the word for 'mole' do not agree. :The name is typical for Pre-Greek words; apart from minor variations ( for , for ) we find (a well known variation; Fur. 335-339) followed by or , i.e. a voiced velar (without ) or a voiceless velar (or an aspirated one: we know that there was no distinction between the three in the substr. language) with a . I think that the renders an original affricate, which (prob. as ) was lost before the (in Greek the group is rare, and certainly before another consonant). :Szemerényi's etymology (''JHS'' 94, 1974, 155) from Hitt. ''assula(a)-'' 'well-being' and ''piya-'' 'give' cannot be correct, as it does not explain the velar."〔(Greek etymology database ) (online source requires login and is located at http://iedo.brillonline.nl/dictionaries/content/greek/index.html;jsessionid=02B0AB2A20E711C0F132C3A936DBC4E1); also in: R. S. P. Beekes, ''Etymological Dictionary of Greek'', Brill, 2009, p. 151. 〕 Beekes suggested a Pre-Greek proto-form '' *Atyklap-''.〔R. S. P. Beekes, ''Etymological Dictionary of Greek'', Brill, 2009, p. xxv.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Asclepius」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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