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The Greek god of medicine was Apollo. He is also the god of the sun, music, poetry, dance, math, herdsmen, and prophecy. he controls the sun's daily movement across the sky. He can heal, inspire learning, and make the sun rise and set. his symbols are the laurel tree, lyre, and 7. His weapons are the bow and arrow. He lives on Mount Olympus. His parents are Zeus and Leto. he is unmarried. he is known for killing many mythological monsters. Apollo is Artemis' twin.
For many people the "Father of of Medicine" was Hippocrates a Greek physician who lived from 460 BC. to 370 BC. in the Age of Pericles.
He is credited with coining the "Hippocratic Oath" still relevant and used today.
Hippocrates separated the discipline of medicine from religion. He believed and argued that diseases were not a punishment inflicted by the Gods.
Although of Greek origin, Apollo is the Roman god of healing. Epona and Angita were also goddesses of healing.
He was the god of healing, music, the sun, and prophecy. He can do things relating to his jobs.
He is god of prophecy, light, art, music, medicine, plague, healing, Archery, and is the second Great God of the Sun (the first being Helios). He, as well as his son Asclepius (another god of healing) along with Hermes comprise the 3 most important Gods of Medicine in the Greek Pantheon. When infuriated, one of Apollo's most fearsome acts is to launch arrows of plague into his enemies. As God of healing, he could bestow or deny health and wellbeing.
Apollo is the god of the sun, healing/medicine, and making ladies fall in love with him.
As well as god of healing, Apollo is the god of plague and disease; so deaths of illness are taken as his doing.