Chiron

Role: centaur and tutor · First appears: Book 3 · Chapter 18

Chiron is identified as a centaur and tutor. In Book 3, Chapter 18, Peleus hands Achilles over to him for education, and Chiron is said to have been Achilles’s tutor. In Book 5, Chapter 5, some Greeks say Chiron was wounded by Hercules, while others name Pylenor the Centaur. By Book 5, Chapter 19, Chiron has returned to earth to comfort Achilles.

Relationship record

Book 3 · Chapter 18

• pupil: Achilles “There is Peleus handing over Achilles for his education to Chiron, who is said to have been his tutor.”

Book 5 · Chapter 5

• with Hercules (The passage attributes Chiron's wounding to Hercules.) “Some of the Greeks say that Chiron, others that Pylenor the Centaur, was wounded by Hercules”

Book 5 · Chapter 19

• with Achilles (comforting Achilles) “he returned to earth to comfort Achilles”

Book 9 · Chapter 31

• pupil: Achilles “The Exhortation of Chiron for the Instruction of Achilles”

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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.