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A lekythos taken to depict Peleus (left) entrusting his son Achilles (center) to the tutelage of Chiron (right), c. 500 BCE, National Archaeological Museum of Athens. The "Precepts of Chiron" (Ancient Greek: Χείρωνος ὑποθῆκαι, Cheírōnos hypothêkai) is a now fragmentary Greek didactic poem that was attributed to Hesiod during antiquity.
A lekythos depicting Chiron and Achilles The Education of Achilles, by Eugène Delacroix. Chiron was a renowned mentor, and brought up some future heroes such as: Achilles – The son of the Argonaut Peleus and the Nereid Thetis.
Acastus took Peleus on a hunting trip atop Mount Pelion and once Peleus fell asleep, Acastus hid his sword away and abandoned him on the mountainside. Peleus woke up and as a group of centaurs was about to attack him, the wise centaur Chiron, or, according to another source, Hermes, returned his sword to him and Peleus managed to escape. [11]
Français : Lekythos à fond blanc. Pélée (à gauche) confie son fils Achille (au centre) au centaure Chiron (à droite). Érétrie, par le Peintre d'Édimbourg, vers 500 a. C. Musée archéologique national, Athènes, n°550. Au centre de la scène, le jeune Achille, représenté comme un jeune homme debout, est tourné vers la gauche.
Philoctetes at Lemnos, on an Attic red-figure lekythos, ca. 420 BC (Metropolitan Museum of Art). Philoctetes (Ancient Greek: Φιλοκτήτης Philoktētēs; English pronunciation: / ˌ f ɪ l ə k ˈ t iː t iː z /, stressed on the third syllable, -tet-[1]), or Philocthetes, according to Greek mythology, was the son of Poeas, king of Meliboea in Thessaly, and Demonassa [2] or Methone. [3]
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A lekythos (Ancient Greek: λήκυθος; pl.: lekythoi) is a type of ancient Greek vessel used for storing oil, especially olive oil. It has a narrow body and one handle attached to the neck of the vessel, and is thus a narrow type of jug , with no pouring lip; the oinochoe is more like a modern jug.
Chiron in the twelfth house manifests in your subconscious mind, dreams, and intuition. And without further ado, here’s what your Chiron sign means, per astrologers: Aries