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{{short description|Greek goddess of recuperation from illness}}
[[File:Iaso.jpg|thumb|upright|Detail of Iaso, the goddess of healing, from a scene depicting a group of goddesses. Iaso gazes at herself in a mirror, presumably as a sign of good health.]]
'''Iaso''' ({{IPAc-en|aɪ|ˈ|eɪ|s|oʊ}}; {{langx|el|Ἰασώ}}, ''Iāsō'') or '''Ieso''' ({{IPAc-en|aɪ|ˈ|iː|s|oʊ}}; {{langx|el|Ἰησώ}}, ''Iēsō'') was the [[Greek mythology|Greek goddess]] of recuperation from illness. The daughter of [[Asclepius]], she had four sisters: [[Aceso]], [[Aegle (mythology)|Aegle]], [[Hygieia]], and [[Panacea (Greek mythology)|Panacea]]. All five were associated with some aspect of health or healing. For more information on the [[genealogy]] of Iaso, see [[Panacea (Greek mythology)|Panacea]].

==Description==
Pausanias (author of ''[[Periegesis of Greece]]'') wrote this of [[Amphiaraus]] in [[Oropos]], [[Attica]], in the 2nd century A.D.:

<blockquote>The altar shows parts. One part is to [[Heracles]], [[Zeus]], and [[Apollo|Apollo Healer]], another is given up to heroes and to wives of heroes, the third is to [[Hestia]] and [[Hermes]] and Amphiaraus and the children of [[Amphilochus (son of Alcmaeon)|Amphilochus]]. But [[Alcmaeon (mythology)|Alcmaeon]], because of his treatment of [[Eriphyle]], is honored neither in the temple of Amphiaraus nor yet with Amphilochus. The fourth portion of the altar is to [[Aphrodite]] and Panacea, and further to Iaso, Hygeia, and [[Athena|Athena Healer]]. The fifth is dedicated to the [[nymph]]s and to [[Pan (mythology)|Pan]], and to the rivers [[Achelous]] and [[Cephissus (Boeotia)|Cephisus]].</blockquote>

[[Aristophanes]] mentions Iaso humorously in ''[[Plutus (play)|Ploutos]]'', when one of the characters, Cario, reports that Iaso blushed upon his passing gas.

In the temple of Amphiaraus at Oropus a part of the altar was dedicated to her, in common with Aphrodite, Panaceia, Hygieia, and Athena Paeonia. 

Iaso had many children.{{Citation needed|reason=source? here|date=September 2025}}
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==References==
*{{cite encyclopedia |last=Schmitz |first=Leonhard |editor=[[William Smith (lexicographer)|William Smith]] |encyclopedia=[[Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology]] |title=Iaso |url=https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0104%3Aalphabetic+letter%3DI%3Aentry+group%3D2%3Aentry%3Diaso-bio-1 |year=1867 |volume=2 |page=552 |publisher=Little, Brown and Company |location=Boston }}

==External links==
*{{Commonscatinline|Iaso}}

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