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Marble torso and head of Asclepius in the type este. From the Asclepieion of Peraeus 2nd c BC. Asclepius became so proficient as a healer that he surpassed both Chiron and his father, Apollo. Asclepius was therefore able to evade death and to bring others back to life from the brink of death and beyond. This caused an influx of human beings and Zeus resorted to killing him to maintain balance in the numbers of the human population.nAt some point, Asclepius was among those who took part in the Calydonian Boar hunt. Zeus killed Asclepius with a thunderbolt because he brought Hippolytus back from the dead and accepted gold for it. Other stories say that Asclepius was killed because, after bringing people back from the dead like Tyndareus, Hades thought that no more dead spirits would come to the underworld. Because of this, he asked his brother Zeus to stop him. This angered Apollo who in turn killed the Cyclopes who made the thunderbolts for Zeus.

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