HYGIEIA ('/}"/,) also called Hygea or Hygia, the goddess of 

 health, and a daughter of Asclepius, (JEsculapius.) (Paus. i. 23, $ 5; 

 xxxi., \ 5.) In one of the Orphic hymns (66-7) she is called the wife 

 of Asclepius; and Proclus (ad. Plat. Tim.) makes her a daughter of 

 Eros and Peitho. She was usually worshiped in the same temples 

 with her father, as at Argos, where the two divinities had a cele- 

 brated sanctuary (Paus. ii. 23, \ 4 ; iii. 22, \ 9) at Athens, (i. 23, \ 5; 

 31, g 5;) at Corinth, (ii. 4, g 6;) at Gortys, (viii. 28, \ 1 ;) at Sicyon, 

 (ii. 11, \ 6 ;) at Oropus, (i. 34, g 2.) At Rome there was a statue of 

 her in the temple of Concordia, (Plin. H. N., xxxiv. 19.) In works 

 of art, of which a considerable number has come down to our time, 

 she was represented as a virgin dressed in a long robe, with the ex- 

 pression of mildness and kindness, and either alone or grouped with 

 her father and sisters, and either sitting or standing, and leaning on 

 her father. Her ordinary attribute is a serpent, which she is feed- 

 ing from a cup. Although she is originally the goddess of physical 

 health, she is sometimes conceived as the giver or protectress of 

 mental health, that is, she appears as Mens sana, or uytsia ypsvwv, 

 (JSschyl. Eum. 522,) and was thus identified with Athena, surnamed 

 Hygieia, (Paus. i. 23, \ 5 ; comp. Lucian, pro Laps., 5 ; Hirt. Mythol. 

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