Chiron

Also known as: Cheiron · Family: Gods · Role: centaur · First appears: Sophocles, The Trachinian Maidens — Scene 4

Sophocles, The Trachinian Maidens — Scene 4

• with Heracles (Heracles' shaft wounded Cheiron.) “For, well I know, the shaft that made the wound Gave pain to Cheiron, who was more than man. And wheresoe'er it falls, it ravageth All the wild creatures of the world. And now This gory venom blackly spreading bane From Nessus' angry wound, must it not cause The death of Heracles?”

Euripides, Iphigenia In Aulis — Scene 2

• pupil: Achilles “whom Thetis bore, and Chiron trained up”

Also listed in Gods — Minor Figures

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