Chiron

Also known as: Philyrean hero · Family: Centaurs · Role: centaur and mentor · First appears: Fable 25

Life events

Ocyrrhoe foretells Chiron will lose immortality and become subject to death.(Fable25)
- With: Ocyrrhoe
- “Thou likewise, dear father, now immortal, and produced at thy nativity, on the condition of enduring for ever, wilt then wish that thou couldst die, when thou shalt be tormented on receiving the blood of a baneful serpent[75] in thy wounded limbs; and the Gods shall make thee from an immortal {being}, subject to death, and the three Goddesses[76] shall cut thy threads.”

child: Ocyrrhoe (Chiron is Ocyrrhoe's father.) “Ocyrrhoe, the daughter of the Centaur Chiron, attempting to predict future events, tells her father the fate of the child Æsculapius”
pupil: Æsculapius (The divine pupil is Æsculapius.) “In the meantime the half-beast {Chiron} was proud of a pupil of Divine origin, and rejoiced in the honor annexed to the responsibility.”
with Hercules (Hercules's poisoned arrow wounded Chiron.) “This happened when one of the arrows of Hercules, dipped in the poison of the Lernæan Hydra, pierced the foot of Chiron while he was examining it.”

with Apollo (Chiron implores Apollo for assistance.) “The Philyrean[77] hero wept, and in vain, {God} of Delphi, implored thy assistance;”

parent: Phillyra (Phillyra is Chiron's mother.) “the mountains of Thessaly are so called, because Chiron, the son of the Nymph Phillyra, lived there.”

Extracted from the original text of The Metamorphoses of Ovid. Made with Rho MD.