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CHIRON, or CHEIRON

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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 239 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CHIRON, or CHEIRON  , in
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Greek
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mythology, one of the
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Centaurs, the son of Cronus and Philyra, a
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sea nymph . He dwelt at the
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foot of
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Mount
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Pelion, and was famous for his
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wisdom and knowledge of the healing
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art . He offers a remarkable contrast to the other Centaurs in
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manners and
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character . Many of the most celebrated heroes of
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Greece were brought up and instructed by him (
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Apollodorus iii. ro . 13) . Accidentally pierced by a poisoned arrow shot by Heracles, he renounced his
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immortality in favour of
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Prometheus, and was placed by
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Zeus among the stars as the
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constellation
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Sagittarius (Apollodorus ii . 5;
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Ovid,
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Fasti, v . 414) . In a Pompeian
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wall-
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painting he is shown teaching
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Achilles to
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play the
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lyre . See articles in Pauly-Wissowa's Realencyclopadie and W . H .
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Roscher's Lexikon der Mythologie; W .

Mannhardt, Wald- and Feldkulte (1904) .

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