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Chiron, Peleus and infant Achilles Chiron was notable throughout Greek mythology for his youth-nurturing nature. His personal skills tend to match those of his foster father Apollo, who taught the young centaur the art of medicine, herbs, music, archery, hunting, gymnastics, and prophecy, and made him rise above his beastly nature. [3]
In Greek mythology, Charon or Kharon (/ ˈ k ɛər ɒ n,-ən / KAIR-on, -ən; Ancient Greek: Χάρων) is a psychopomp, the ferryman of the Greek underworld. He carries the souls of those who have been given funeral rites across the rivers Acheron and Styx, which separate the worlds of the living and the dead. [1]
Chariclo (/ k ə ˈ r ɪ k l oʊ / or / ˈ k ær ɪ k l oʊ /; Ancient Greek: Χαρικλώ, romanized: Khariklṓ, lit. 'graceful spinner' [1] [2]) is either of two nymphs in Greek mythology: Chariclo, a nymph who was married to the centaur Chiron and became the mother of Hippe, Endeïs, Ocyrhoe, and Carystus.
Detail of Greek mosaic with Peleus and Clotho, Paphos Archaeological Park. In Greek mythology, Peleus (/ ˈ p iː l i ə s, ˈ p iː lj uː s /; Ancient Greek: Πηλεύς Pēleus) was a hero, king of Phthia, husband of Thetis and the father of their son Achilles. This myth was already known to the hearers of Homer in the late 8th century BC. [2]
It is well known that Chiron, the famously civilized centaur, had origins which differed from those of the other centaurs.Chiron was the son of Cronus and a minor goddess Philyra, which accounted for his exceptional intelligence and honor, whereas the other centaurs were bestial and brutal, being the descendants of Centaurus who is the result of the unholy rape of a minor cloud-goddess that ...
Discovered in the 1970s, Chiron is a comet that was first identified as an asteroid and named after a famed centaur in Greek mythology. Chiron’s story is one full of emotional and physical ...
Philyra or Phillyra (/ ˈ f ɪ l ə r ə /: Ancient Greek: Φιλύρα means "linden-tree") is the name of three distinct characters in Greek mythology. Philyra, an Oceanid and mother of Chiron by Cronus. [1] Philyra, one of the names given to the wife of Nauplius, who was the father of Palamedes, Oiax and Nausimedon.
A lekythos taken to depict Peleus (left) entrusting his son Achilles (center) to the tutelage of Chiron (right), c. 500 BCE, National Archaeological Museum of Athens. The "Precepts of Chiron" (Ancient Greek: Χείρωνος ὑποθῆκαι, Cheírōnos hypothêkai) is a now fragmentary Greek didactic poem that was attributed to Hesiod during antiquity.