In this retelling of the Hippolytus myth, Asklepios as the son of Apollo possesses extraordinary skills as a physician, and he uses these skills to bring Hippolytus back to life after that hero dies in a chariot crash caused by the ārai or ‘curses’ hurled at him by Theseus. From another retelling of the myth, however, we learn that the resurrection of Hippolytus, engineered by the skills of Asklepios, was not only the result of his death: it was also the cause of another death. And the one whose death was caused by the resurrection of Hippolytus was Asklepios himself. As the story goes, Zeus incinerated Asklepios with his divine thunderbolt, and he did so precisely because this hero had used his extraordinary skills as a physician to resurrect Hippolytus after that hero’s death (scholia for Pindar Pythian 3.54). This version of the myth seems to be quite ancient, datable at least as far back as the sixth century BCE.