The name Lepios is derived from Asklepios, the god of healing in Greek mythology. Asklepios was said to have discovered medicine by observing a snake bringing another snake back to life with herbs. The Sanctuary of Asklepios at Epidaurus, built around the 3rd century B.C, was one of the most celebrated healing centers of the ancient world. Hippocrates, the greatest physician of the antiquity, taught his medical students there. To this day, the universal symbol of medicine depicts the staff of Asklepios: a single snake entwined around a branch.