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He needed a course on ethics from Hippocrates.
Asclepius is certainly not your average hero. Still, he's included because of his reliance on Athena. If she hadn't favored Asclepius with the life restoring and destroying blood from the two veins of Medusa, he might not have become patron of healing. Like other heroes and unlike most other gods, Asclepius died. The story goes that Zeus, seeing him accept a bribe for resurrection, struck him down with a thunder bolt.
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