The Asklepieion at Epidaurus, the earliest organized centre of healing in ancient Greece, was founded in the middle of the 8th c. BC. The temple was built and functioned as early as the Myenaean period. In the 8th c. BC, the god Apollo, well-known for his healing capacity, was worshipped here with the ephet Malaeas. About the middle of the 6th c. BC, when the facilities on the Kynton Hill were no longer adequate for the continuously increasing number of worshippers, a new sanctuary, the Asklepieion was created at Epidaurus, dedicated to Apollon Malaeas and his son, the chthonic deity Asklepieios.