person
Chiron
also: Phillyrides
The wise Centaur, son of Phillyra, who tutored Achilles and other heroes.
Reading notes
- The Art of Love §1.1 Chiron
The wise Centaur, son of Phillyra ('Phillyra's son'), tutor of Achilles in music and arms.
- Letters from the Black Sea §3.3 Chiron take such rewards
Chiron, the wise Centaur who tutored Achilles and took no such harm from his pupil; another teacher-pupil pair set against Ovid and Love.
- The Festivals §5.3 Chiron
The wise and just Centaur, tutor of Achilles, accidentally wounded by Hercules's poisoned arrow and set among the stars.
- Metamorphoses §2.30 twin-formed Chiron
The wise centaur — half man, half horse — to whose cave Apollo brings the rescued infant Aesculapius.
- Metamorphoses §2.32 The hero son of Philyra
Chiron, son of the Oceanid Philyra by Saturn; he weeps for the doom foretold him.