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In [[Greek mythology]], '''Hygieia''' ([[Roman mythology|Roman]] equivalent: [[Salus]]) was a daughter of [[Asclepius]]. She was the goddess of health, cleanliness and sanitation (and later: the moon), and played an important part in her father's cult (see also: [[asklepieion]]).

Though Hygieia had been the subject of a local cult since at least the [[7th century BC|seventh century BCE]], she did not begin to spread out until the [[Oracle]] at [[Delphi]] recognized her, and after the devastating [[Athens, Greece|Athens]] plague in [[429 BC|429]] and [[427 BC|427]] BCE and in Rome in [[293 BC|293]] BCE. Her primary temples were in [[Epidaurus]], [[Corinth, Greece|Corinth]], [[Cos]] and [[Pergamon]].

[[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]] remarked that, at the asclepieion of [[Titane]] in [[Sikyonia]] (founded by [[Alexanor]], Asclepius' grandson), statues of Hygieia were covered by women's hair and pieces of [[Babylon|Babylonian]] clothes. According to inscriptions, the same sacrifices were offered at [[Paros]].

[[Ariphron]], a [[Sikyonia|Sikyonian]] artist from the [[4th century BC|fourth century BCE]] wrote a well-known [[hymn]] celebrating her. Statues of Hygieia were creaed by [[Skopas]], [[Bryaxis]] and [[Timotheos]], amng others.

She was often depicted as a young woman feeding a large snake that was wrapped around her body.