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href="https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxaon_(mifologiya)" title="Maxaon (mifologiya) – Azerbaijani" lang="az" hreflang="az" data-title="Maxaon (mifologiya)" data-language-autonym="Azərbaycanca" data-language-local-name="Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Azərbaycanca</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be mw-list-item"><a href="https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%85%D0%B0%D0%BE%D0%BD_(%D0%BC%D1%96%D1%84%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B3%D1%96%D1%8F)" title="Махаон (міфалогія) – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="Махаон (міфалогія)" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%85%D0%B0%D0%BE%D0%BD" title="Махаон – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Махаон" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-br mw-list-item"><a href="https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac%27haon" title="Mac'haon – Breton" lang="br" hreflang="br" data-title="Mac'haon" data-language-autonym="Brezhoneg" data-language-local-name="Breton" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Brezhoneg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac%C3%A0on" title="Macàon – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Macàon" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machaon" title="Machaon – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Machaon" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%9C%CE%B1%CF%87%CE%AC%CF%89%CE%BD" title="Μαχάων – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Μαχάων" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maca%C3%B3n_(mitolog%C3%ADa)" title="Macaón (mitología) – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Macaón (mitología)" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makaono_(mitologio)" title="Makaono (mitologio) – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Makaono (mitologio)" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" 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data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macaone_(mitologia)" title="Macaone (mitologia) – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Macaone (mitologia)" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-la mw-list-item"><a href="https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machaon" title="Machaon – Latin" lang="la" hreflang="la" data-title="Machaon" data-language-autonym="Latina" data-language-local-name="Latin" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machaonas_(mitologija)" title="Machaonas (mitologija) – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="Machaonas (mitologija)" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lietuvių</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9E%E3%82%AB%E3%83%BC%E3%82%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%83%B3" title="マカーオーン – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="マカーオーン" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machaon" title="Machaon – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Machaon" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maca%C3%A3o" title="Macaão – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Macaão" data-language-autonym="Português" 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<div id="mw-content-text" class="mw-body-content"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">Mythical Greek healer hero</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Machaon_son_of_Asclepius.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/12/Machaon_son_of_Asclepius.jpg/220px-Machaon_son_of_Asclepius.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="293" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/12/Machaon_son_of_Asclepius.jpg/330px-Machaon_son_of_Asclepius.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/12/Machaon_son_of_Asclepius.jpg/440px-Machaon_son_of_Asclepius.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3000" data-file-height="4000" /></a><figcaption>Marble torso probably representing the son of <a href="/wiki/Asclepius" title="Asclepius">Asclepius</a>, Machaon. 2nd century B.C. Ancient <a href="/wiki/Messene" title="Messene">Messene</a> museum.</figcaption></figure> <p>In <a href="/wiki/Greek_mythology" title="Greek mythology">Greek mythology</a>, <b>Machaon</b> (<span class="rt-commentedText nowrap"><span class="IPA nopopups noexcerpt" lang="en-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/<span style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><span title="'m' in 'my'">m</span><span title="/ə/: 'a' in 'about'">ə</span><span title="/ˈ/: primary stress follows">ˈ</span><span title="'k' in 'kind'">k</span><span title="/eɪ/: 'a' in 'face'">eɪ</span><span title="/./: syllable break">.</span><span title="/ə/: 'a' in 'about'">ə</span><span title="'n' in 'nigh'">n</span></span>/</a></span></span>; <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Greek_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Ancient Greek language">Ancient Greek</a>: <span lang="grc">Μαχάων</span>, <small><a href="/wiki/Romanization_of_Ancient_Greek" class="mw-redirect" title="Romanization of Ancient Greek">romanized</a>: </small><span title="Ancient Greek-language romanization"><i lang="grc-Latn">Macháōn</i></span>) was a son of <a href="/wiki/Asclepius" title="Asclepius">Asclepius</a>; and the older brother of <a href="/wiki/Podalirius" title="Podalirius">Podalirius</a>. He and his brother led an army from <a href="/wiki/Tricca" title="Tricca">Tricca</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Trojan_War" title="Trojan War">Trojan War</a> on the side of the Greeks.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Family">Family</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Machaon_(mythology)&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Family"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Machaon fathered <a href="/wiki/Nicomachus_(mythology)" title="Nicomachus (mythology)">Nicomachus</a> and Gorgasus by <a href="/wiki/Anticlea_(mythology)" title="Anticlea (mythology)">Anticleia</a>, daughter of <a href="/wiki/Diocles_(mythology)" title="Diocles (mythology)">Diocles</a> of <a href="/wiki/Pharae_(Messenia)" title="Pharae (Messenia)">Pharae</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His other sons were <a href="/wiki/Alexanor" title="Alexanor">Alexanor</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/w/index.php?title=Sphyrus&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Sphyrus (page does not exist)">Sphyrus</a><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/Polemocrates_(physician)" title="Polemocrates (physician)">Polemocrates</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>According to <a href="/wiki/Diogenes_La%C3%ABrtius" class="mw-redirect" title="Diogenes Laërtius">Diogenes Laertius</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Lives_and_Opinions_of_Eminent_Philosophers" class="mw-redirect" title="Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers">Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers</a></i>, <a href="/wiki/Hermippus_of_Smyrna" title="Hermippus of Smyrna">Hermippus</a>, in his book <i>On Aristotle,</i> places Machaon as the son of <a href="/wiki/Asclepius" title="Asclepius">Asclepius</a>, father of <a href="/wiki/Nicomachus_(father_of_Aristotle)" title="Nicomachus (father of Aristotle)">Nicomachus</a>, and ancestor of <a href="/wiki/Aristotle" title="Aristotle">Aristotle</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Mythology">Mythology</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Machaon_(mythology)&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Mythology"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Both Machaon and Podalirius were highly valued surgeons and medics.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the <i><a href="/wiki/Iliad" title="Iliad">Iliad</a>,</i> he was wounded and put out of action by <a href="/wiki/Paris_(mythology)" title="Paris (mythology)">Paris</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Machaon (or his brother) healed <a href="/wiki/Philoctetes" title="Philoctetes">Philoctetes</a>, <a href="/wiki/Telephus" title="Telephus">Telephus</a> and <a href="/wiki/Menelaus" title="Menelaus">Menelaus</a>, after he sustained an arrow at the hand of <a href="/wiki/Pandarus" title="Pandarus">Pandarus</a>, during the war. He was also supposed to possess herbs which were bestowed to his father Asclepius by <a href="/wiki/Chiron" title="Chiron">Chiron</a>, the centaur.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>He was killed by <a href="/wiki/Eurypylus_(son_of_Telephus)" title="Eurypylus (son of Telephus)">Eurypylus</a> in the tenth year of the war.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was buried in <a href="/wiki/Gerenia" title="Gerenia">Gerenia</a> in <a href="/wiki/Messenia" title="Messenia">Messenia</a>, where he was worshiped by the people. </p><p>In the account of <a href="/wiki/Dares_Phrygius" title="Dares Phrygius">Dares the Phrygian</a>, Machaon was illustrated as ". . . large and brave, dependable, prudent, patient, and merciful."<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Legacy">Legacy</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Machaon_(mythology)&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Legacy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>The <a href="/wiki/Latin" title="Latin">Latin</a> name of a butterfly Old World Swallowtail (<i><a href="/wiki/Papilio_machaon" title="Papilio machaon">Papilio machaon</a></i>) is <a href="/wiki/Etymology" title="Etymology">derived</a> from Machaon.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Machaonia" title="Machaonia">Machaonia</a></i>, a <a href="/wiki/Plant" title="Plant">plant</a> <a href="/wiki/Genus" title="Genus">genus</a> in <a href="/wiki/Rubiaceae" title="Rubiaceae">Rubiaceae</a>, was named for Machaon.</li> <li>The Jovian trojan asteroid <a href="/wiki/3063_Makhaon" title="3063 Makhaon">3063 Makhaon</a> is named after him.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Machaon_(mythology)&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output 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"Lives of Eminent Philosophers 5.1. Aristotle". <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.4159%2Fdlcl.diogenes_laertius-lives_eminent_philosophers_book_v_chapter_1_aristotle.1925">10.4159/dlcl.diogenes_laertius-lives_eminent_philosophers_book_v_chapter_1_aristotle.1925</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.atitle=Lives+of+Eminent+Philosophers+5.1.+Aristotle&rft.date=1925&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.4159%2Fdlcl.diogenes_laertius-lives_eminent_philosophers_book_v_chapter_1_aristotle.1925&rft.au=Diogenes+Laertius&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMachaon+%28mythology%29" class="Z3988"></span> <span class="cs1-visible-error citation-comment"><code class="cs1-code">{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Cite_journal" title="Template:Cite journal">cite journal</a>}}</code>: </span><span class="cs1-visible-error citation-comment">Cite journal requires <code class="cs1-code">|journal=</code> (<a href="/wiki/Help:CS1_errors#missing_periodical" title="Help:CS1 errors">help</a>)</span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Homer, <i>Iliad</i> 2.273</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Homer, <i>Iliad</i> 11.506</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-9">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Homer, <i>Iliad</i> 4.219</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-10">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Quintus_Smyrnaeus" title="Quintus Smyrnaeus">Quintus Smyrnaeus</a>, 6.408</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-11">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Dares_Phrygius" title="Dares Phrygius">Dares Phrygius</a>, <i>History of the Fall of Troy</i> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.theoi.com/Text/DaresPhrygius.html">13</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-12">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Schmadel, Lutz D. (2003) Dictionary of minor planet names, Springer - p.252</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Machaon_(mythology)&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Dares_Phrygius" title="Dares Phrygius">Dares Phrygius</a>, <i>from The Trojan War.</i> <i>The Chronicles of <a href="/wiki/Dictys_Cretensis" title="Dictys Cretensis">Dictys of Crete</a> and Dares the Phrygian</i> translated by Richard McIlwaine Frazer, Jr. (1931-). Indiana University Press. 1966. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.theoi.com/Text/DaresPhrygius.html">Online version at theio.com</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Diogenes_La%C3%ABrtius" class="mw-redirect" title="Diogenes Laërtius">Diogenes Laertius</a>, <i>Lives of Eminent Philosophers</i> edited by R.D. Hicks. Cambridge. Harvard University Press. 1972 (First published 1925). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0258">Online version at the Perseus Digital Library</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0257">Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Homer" title="Homer">Homer</a>, <a href="/wiki/Iliad" title="Iliad"><i>The Iliad</i></a> with an English Translation by A.T. Murray, Ph.D. in two volumes. 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