Asclepius and Epione founded a dynasty of healing deities. Their daughters Hygieia, Panacea, Iaso, and Aceso personified aspects of health and healing; their sons Machaon and Podalirius became physician-heroes at Troy.
Eurypylus, son of Telephus, killed Machaon during the later stages of the Trojan War according to the Little Iliad and Quintus Smyrnaeus's Posthomerica.
Epione was mother to Machaon, the surgeon-hero who healed Greek warriors at Troy. Her gentle nature was inherited by her son in his care for the wounded.
In Iliad Book 4, Machaon treated the arrow wound of Menelaus after Pandarus shot him during the truce. Machaon sucked out the blood, applied healing herbs, and restored the king to fighting condition.
In Iliad Book 11, Nestor rescued the wounded Machaon from the battlefield, driving him back to the Greek ships in his chariot after Paris struck the healer with an arrow.
Machaon, son of Asclepius and the Greek army's chief healer, treated Philoctetes's festering snakebite wound after the archer was brought from Lemnos to Troy. His healing restored Philoctetes to fight and kill Paris.
Machaon and Podalirius, sons of Asclepius, served as physicians to the Greek army at Troy. Homer names Machaon treating the wounded Menelaus in the Iliad.
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