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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.
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]
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Precepts of Chiron, a didactic work that presented the teaching of Chiron as delivered to the young Achilles. Megala Erga or Great Works, a poem similar to the Works and Days, but presumably longer; Astronomia, an astronomical poem to which Callimachus (Ep. 27) apparently compared Aratus' Phaenomena.
Although the "Kiln" is printed among the Hesiodic fragments, [4] there is little reason to assume that it was widely attributed to Hesiod. [5] In discussing a word for "basket" known as a κάναστρον (kanastron), Pollux cites the third verse of the poem, calling it the "Potters" and giving a tentative ascription to Hesiod: [6]
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Chilon (top right) on a 3rd century AD Roman mosaic depicting the Seven Sages, now in the National Museum of Beirut.. Chilon of Sparta (Ancient Greek: Χείλων) (fl. 6th century BC) was a Spartan politician credited with the militarization of Spartan society, and one of the Seven Sages of Greece.
The following other wikis use this file: Usage on hy.wikipedia.org Ջովանի Չիպրիանի; Usage on it.wikipedia.org Chirone; Giovanni Battista Cipriani