- Chiron - Mythopedia
Chiron was the wisest and most honorable of the Centaurs, a race of half-man, half-horse creatures He is best remembered for tutoring the great heroes of Greek mythology, including Jason, Asclepius, and Achilles
- Centaurs - Mythopedia
Chiron, unlike the other Centaurs, was not a descendant of the sinful Ixion Rather, he was the son of Cronus, the powerful Titan who had ruled the cosmos before the Olympians, and Philyra Also unlike the other Centaurs, Chiron was a wise, gentle, and helpful creature, described by Homer as “the most righteous of the Centaurs ”
- Theseus - Mythopedia
Apollodorus, Library 3 15 6, translated by James G Frazer See also Plutarch, Life of Theseus 3 3 ↩; The fifth-century BCE poet Bacchylides tells a story of how Theseus proved that he was the son of Poseidon by diving into the sea and retrieving a ring that had been tossed into it by King Minos (Bacchylides, Ode 17)
- Odysseus – Mythopedia
Odysseus was a Greek hero from Ithaca known for his cunning After helping to win the Trojan War, he was forced to wander the world for ten years before returning home
- Achilles – Mythopedia
Fresco showing Chiron (left) with the young Achilles (right) from Herculaneum (1st century BCE) National Archaeological Museum, Naples Public Domain How did Achilles die? Achilles was killed during the final year of the Trojan War, while he was still very young
- Aeneas – Mythopedia
Titles and Epithets As one of the most impressive Trojan heroes in Homer’s Iliad, Aeneas was endowed with a number of equally impressive epithets, including μεγαλήτωρ (megalḗtōr, “great-hearted”), ἄναξ ἀνδρῶν (ánax andrôn, “lord of men”), and the patronymic Ἀγχισιάδης (Anchisiádēs, “son of Anchises”)
- Asclepius - Mythopedia
Asclepius was then raised by the wise centaur Chiron Woodcut depicting the birth of Asclepius, from Alessandro Beneditti's De Re Medica (1549) Research Gate Public Domain In a later version of the myth, Asclepius was again the son of Apollo and Coronis
- Zeus - Mythopedia
Overview Zeus was the supreme god of the Greeks, a mighty deity who meted out justice from atop Mount Olympus Hailed as the father of both mortals and immortals, Zeus was the god of the sky and weather, but was also connected with law and order, the city, and the househol
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