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Quotation from The Library (Bibliotheca) by Apollodorus (attributed)
“Zeus, fearing that men might acquire the healing art from him and so come to the rescue of each other, smote him with a thunderbolt.”
The Library (Bibliotheca), Book III.10.4, trans. Sir James George Frazer (1921)
The death of Asclepius, which provokes Apollo to kill the Cyclopes and leads to his year of service with Admetus.
Citation: "Zeus, fearing that men might acquire the healing art from him and so come to the rescue of each other, smote him with a thunderbolt." — Apollodorus (attributed), The Library (Bibliotheca), Book III.10.4, trans. Sir James George Frazer (1921). (id apollodorus-library-q7)
Portrait: Bibliotheke des Apollodor, Title page of an 1805 edition of the Bibliotheca, Public domain.
