Sentence:  We found religious medicine in the Homeric poems, and there was no century without healing cults. The cult of <WSD>Asclepius</WSD> was by no means the only one, but, for reasons that will be discussed later, it dominated the scene and set a pattern for the cults of other healing deities. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A Greek mythological deity, the god of doctors, medicine and healing; a son of Apollo and the Thessalian princess Coronis, husband to the goddess Epione and father of the Asclepiades; "identified with the Roman god Aesculapius".