" 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, 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.
For this act, Zeus suspended Apollo from the night sky and commanded Apollo to serve
Admetus, King of Thessaly
for a year.
Once the year had passed, Zeus brought Apollo back to Mount Olympus and revived the Cyclopes that made his thunderbolts.
After Asclepius’s death, Zeus placed his body among the stars as the constellation Ophiuchus (“the Serpent Holder”)."
Some sources also stated that Asclepius was later resurrected as a god by Zeus to prevent any further feuds with Apollo.
[ His Apotheosis is unearned... ]
It was also claimed that Asclepius was instructed by Zeus to never revive The Dead without his approval again.
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