Gorgasos (mythology)
Gorgasos ( Greek Γόργασος ) is a hero of Greek mythology .
He is the son of Machaon , a son of Asclepius who learned about healing , and Antikleia , the daughter of Diocles . His twin brother is Nicomachus , with whom he receives rule over the Messenian Pharai after the death of his grandfather Diocles . At the time of Pausanias (2nd century AD) he was venerated as a hero with his brother in Pharai. Together they owned a sanctuary and received consecration gifts for the healing of the sick. The sanctuary is said to have been donated by the Messenian king Isthmios .
Possibly it is a pre-Greek cult of gods, which with the spread of the Asclepios cult declined to the hero cult. The sunken gods were included in the genealogy of the city rulers and as the original healing gods among the descendants of Asclepius.
literature
- Heinrich Wilhelm Stoll : Gorgasos . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1,2, Leipzig 1890, column 1694 ( digitized ).
- Friedrich Hiller von Gaertringen : Gorgasos. In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume VII, 2, Stuttgart 1912, Sp. 1596.