Chiron
Stub entity — referenced by another entity from source #406 but not yet directly extracted from its own source.
↻ synthesized from 9 sources
When
- First attested
- 1300 BCE
- Attested period
- -1300 – 2020
- Historical notes
- Referenced in Homer's Iliad and Greek mythological tradition.
Relationships
- parent of
- Ocyrhoe
- co occurs with
- Persephone, Theseus, Helen, Iphigenia, Pirithous, Autonoë, Semele, Lyssa, Cyrene, Idmon, Pelias, Autuchus, Coronis, Perse, Asteria, Perses, Thetis, Nereids, Chariclo, Rhea, Poseidon, Hades, Diana, Athena, Aphrodite, Hermes, Zeus, Hecate, Helios, centaur
- allied with
- Castor, Pollux, Artemis (Diana), Apollo
- consort of
- Chariclo
Mentioned by
Sources
- peer reviewed
Source passages
“he was trained by the centaur Chiron (who had trained Ajax's father Telamon and Achilles' father Peleus and later died of an accidental wound inflicted by a poison arrow belonging to Heracles)”
#11586 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5
“In Goethe's Faust, Centaur Chiron is said to have aided the Dioscuri brothers in returning Helen home.”
#40295 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“In an embroidered extension of the myth, the hounds were so upset with their master's death, that Chiron made a statue so lifelike that the hounds thought it was Actaeon.”
#42226 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“Later, Apollo entrusted his son to Chiron, the wise centaur, who trained him more in medicine and hunting.”
#42455 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“But after consulting and getting an approval by Chiron, the centaur fostered by Apollo and Artemis, he carried her away to North Africa in his golden car. Aristaeus was entrusted to Chiron, and Idmon was brought up and educated by Apollo.”
#42502 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001