{"id":436,"date":"2024-11-04T19:43:35","date_gmt":"2024-11-04T19:43:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpdev.acsu.buffalo.edu\/history-of-cds\/?page_id=436"},"modified":"2025-04-25T20:12:49","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T20:12:49","slug":"hygeia","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/history-of-cds\/key-players-in-the-ancient-period\/hygeia\/","title":{"rendered":"Hygeia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-content-justification-center is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-23441af8 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.acsu.buffalo.edu\/~duchan\/new_history\/ancient_history\/images_ancient\/hygeia_full.jpg\" alt=\"Hygeia\" style=\"width:147px;height:auto\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"87\" height=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.acsu.buffalo.edu\/~duchan\/new_history\/ancient_history\/images_ancient\/hygeia_head.jpg\" alt=\"Bust of Hygeia\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:0px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Hygeia is known in Greek mythology as a goddess of health, cleanliness and sanitation. She was associated with the prevention of sickness and the continuation of good health. Her name is the source of the word &#8220;hygiene&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hygeia was the daughter of Asclepios, the god of healing, who was also skilled in surgery and the use of medicinal plants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hippocrates, a member of the Asclepiadae, those physicians who were followers of Asclepios, referred to Hygeia in his now famous <a href=\"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/history-of-cds\/ancient-history-2\/hippocratic-oath\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"488\">Hippocratic oath <\/a>&#8220;I swear by Apollo the physician and Asclepios, and Hygeia&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hygeia was represented by the ancient Greeks as a woman holding a serpent in her hands and sometimes in a two figure statue standing beside her father Asclepios.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hygeia is known in Greek mythology as a goddess of health, cleanliness and sanitation. She was associated with the prevention of sickness and the continuation of good health. Her name [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":626,"featured_media":0,"parent":154,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-436","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/history-of-cds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/history-of-cds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/history-of-cds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/history-of-cds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/626"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/history-of-cds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/history-of-cds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2837,"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/history-of-cds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/436\/revisions\/2837"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/history-of-cds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/history-of-cds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}