Chiron

Role: centaur · First appears: Apollodorus, Library 1.2

🌐 Also appears in: The Iliad (as Chiron) · The Metamorphoses of Ovid (as Chiron) · The Divine Comedy (as Chiron)

Life events

Apollo rescued Aesculapius from Coronis’s pyre and brought him to Chiron.(Apollodorus, Library 3.10)
- With: Apollo Aesculapius Coronis
- “As she was burning, he snatched the babe from the pyre and brought it to Chiron, the centaur, by whom he was brought up and taught the arts of healing and hunting.”
Thetis abandoned the infant Achilles, and Peleus entrusted him to Chiron, who named him Achilles.(Apollodorus, Library 3.13)
- With: Thetis Peleus Achilles
- “Peleus watched her, and, seeing the child writhing on the fire, he cried out; and Thetis, thus prevented from accomplishing her purpose, forsook her infant son and departed to the Nereids. Peleus brought the child to Chiron, who received him and fed him on the inwards of lions and wild swine and the marrows of bears, and named him Achilles”

parent: Cronus “to Cronus and Philyra was born Chiron, a centaur of double form”
parent: Philyra “to Cronus and Philyra was born Chiron, a centaur of double form”

pupil: Actaeon “who was bred by Chiron to be a hunter”
with Actaeon (Chiron fashioned an image of Actaeon.) “they came to the cave of Chiron, who fashioned an image of Actaeon, which soothed their grief”

pupil: Aesculapius “by whom he was brought up and taught the arts of healing and hunting.”

with Peleus (interaction) “if he had not been saved by Chiron, who also restored him his sword”
ward: Achilles “Peleus brought the child to Chiron, who received him and fed him”
pupil: Peleus “Chiron, therefore, having advised Peleus to seize her and hold her fast”

Extracted from the original text of Greek Mythology. Made with Rho MD.