abstract:In Greek and Roman mythology, Hygieia (also Hygiea or Hygeia, Greek or , Latin Hygēa or Hygīa), was the daughter of the god of medicine, Asclepius, and Epione. She was the goddess/personification of health (Greek: ὑγίεια - hugieiaὑγίεια, Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, on Perseus), cleanliness and sanitation.