The Iliad

Chiron

Family: divine · Role: centaur · First appears: BOOK IV

🌐 Also appears in: Greek Mythology — A Family Orrery (as Chiron) · The Metamorphoses of Ovid (as Chiron) · The Divine Comedy (as Chiron)

BOOK IV

  • with Aesculapius (interaction) “He wiped away the blood and applied some soothing drugs which Chiron had given to Aesculapius out of the good will he bore him.”

BOOK XI

  • pupil: Achilles (Chiron taught Achilles about the healing herbs.) “those gracious herbs which, so they say, have been shown you by Achilles, who was himself shown them by Chiron”

BOOK XVI

  • with Peleus (interaction) “This was the ashen spear from Mount Pelion, which Chiron had cut upon a mountain top and had given to Peleus”

BOOK XIX

  • with Peleus (interaction) “which Chiron had once given to Peleus”

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