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| A most notable aspect of Iaso is her interesting name. The 19th century ] ] argued that the genitive of the ] spelling of Iaso was the source for the name ] (see http://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/hpb-sio/sio-eso2.htm). Her claim that the name ''Jesus'' derives from Iaso is based on the fact that ''Iesous'' is indeed given as the genitive form of ''Iaso'' on page 816 of Liddell and Scott's |
A most notable aspect of Iaso is her interesting name. The 19th century ] ] argued that the genitive of the ] spelling of Iaso was the source for the name ] (see http://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/hpb-sio/sio-eso2.htm). Her claim that the name ''Jesus'' derives from Iaso is based on the fact that ''Iesous'' is indeed given as the genitive form of ''Iaso'' on page 816 of Liddell and Scott's Lexicon of the Greek Language. The Catholic Encyclopedia entry for Jesus adds that church fathers Cyril and Clement did also consider the name Iesous to be ''of Greek origin''. The Catholic Encyclopedia adds that ''Iesous'' was associated with the Greek verb ''iasthai'' meaning to ''heal''. ''Iaso'' is indeed also related to the verb ''iasthai''. | ||
| For more information on the ] of Iaso, see ]. | For more information on the ] of Iaso, see ]. | ||
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Iaso (also, Iaso Tholus or Jaso; in Ionian Greek, Ieso) was the Greek goddess of recuperation from illness. The daughter of Asclepius, she had five sisters: Aceso, Aglæa/Ægle, Hygieia, Meditrina, and Panacea. All six were associated with some aspect of health or healing.
Description
Very little is actually known about Iaso. She was probably considered a demigod, unlike her sister Panacea, who was given full "god" status. She did, however, have followers, the Iasides ("sons of Iaso").
Pausanias (author of Periegesis of Greece) wrote this of Amphiaraus in Oropos, Attica, in the 2nd century A.D.:
"The altar shows parts. One part is to Heracles, Zeus, and Apollo Healer, another is given up to heroes and to wives of heroes, the third is to Hestia and Hermes and Amphiaraus and the children of Amphilochus. But Alcmaeon, because of his treatment of Eriphyle, is honored neither in the temple of Amphiaraus nor yet with Amphilochus. The fourth portion of the altar is to Aphrodite and Panacea, and further to Iaso, Hygeia, and Athena Healer. The fifth is dedicated to the nymphs and to Pan, and to the rivers Achelous and Cephisus."
Aristophanes mentions Iaso humorously in Ploutos, when one of the characters, Cario, reports that Iaso blushed upon his passing gas.
The Name
A most notable aspect of Iaso is her interesting name. The 19th century theosophist Madame Blavatsky argued that the genitive of the Ionic spelling of Iaso was the source for the name Jesus (see http://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/hpb-sio/sio-eso2.htm). Her claim that the name Jesus derives from Iaso is based on the fact that Iesous is indeed given as the genitive form of Iaso on page 816 of Liddell and Scott's Lexicon of the Greek Language. The Catholic Encyclopedia entry for Jesus adds that church fathers Cyril and Clement did also consider the name Iesous to be of Greek origin. The Catholic Encyclopedia adds that Iesous was associated with the Greek verb iasthai meaning to heal. Iaso is indeed also related to the verb iasthai.
For more information on the genealogy of Iaso, see Panacea.
Further reading
- Schmitz, Leonhard (1867). "Iaso". In William Smith (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 2. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. pp. p. 552. Retrieved 2007-11-06.
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