Coronis’s Family Tree

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Family

• Apollo(spouse),Asclepius(child)— Consort

  Apollo fathered Asclepius with the mortal Coronis. After killing Coronis for infidelity, Apollo rescued the unborn Asclepius from her funeral pyre.

  ⚠ Pausanias (2.26.7) reports that the Messenians claimed Asclepius's mother was Arsinoe, daughter of Leucippus, rather than Coronis. Hesiod's Catalogue of Women may have supported the Arsinoe version.

Slain by

• Apollo

  Apollo killed Coronis with his arrows after learning of her infidelity while she carried his child Asclepius. He rescued the unborn baby from her funeral pyre.

• Artemis

  Artemis killed Coronis with her arrows at Apollo's behest after a crow reported that Coronis had taken the mortal lover Ischys while pregnant with Asclepius.