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Chiron was the king of the centaurs and unlike his race he was intelligent and wise. So wise, in fact, that he tutored Heracles who became one of his great friends. The myth goes that Heracles was visiting his dear friend Pholus. Pholus was a centaur and was having dinner with Heracles. After dinner was over Heracles decided that he was thirsty ...
Chiron, Peleus and infant Achilles Chiron was notable throughout Greek mythology for his youth-nurturing nature. His personal skills tend to match those of his foster father Apollo, who taught the young centaur the art of medicine, herbs, music, archery, hunting, gymnastics, and prophecy, and made him rise above his beastly nature. [3]
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]
Centaur and Centauride: creatures with a head and the torso of a human, and the body of a horse. Centaurs Agrius: one of the centaurs who fought with Heracles; Amycus: one of the centaurs who fought at the Centauromachy. Asbolus: a centaur seer who read omens in the flight of birds. Bienor: one of the centaurs who fought at the Centauromachy.
The Greek word kentauros is generally regarded as being of obscure origin. [3] The etymology from ken + tauros, 'piercing bull', was a euhemerist suggestion in Palaephatus' rationalizing text on Greek mythology, On Incredible Tales (Περὶ ἀπίστων), which included mounted archers from a village called Nephele eliminating a herd of bulls that were the scourge of Ixion's kingdom. [4]
It is well known that Chiron, the famously civilized centaur, had origins which differed from those of the other centaurs.Chiron was the son of Cronus and a minor goddess Philyra, which accounted for his exceptional intelligence and honor, whereas the other centaurs were bestial and brutal, being the descendants of Centaurus who is the result of the unholy rape of a minor cloud-goddess that ...
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The earliest attestation of this episode is found in Pindar's fourth and fifth Nemean odes, written between 483 and 473 BC. Pindar writes in the fourth ode that Hippolyta's ‘crafty arts’ against Peleus, and Acastus’ attempt to kill him via animal ambush (which was only thwarted thanks to an intervention by the wise centaur Chiron) led to him waging a war against the city of Iolcus.