Editing Chiron (section)

==Biography==
[[File:Golden porch - a book of Greek fairy tales (1914) (14569094819).jpg|thumb|313x313px|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.<ref>[[Xenophon]], ''Cynegeticus'' 1; [[Philostratus of Lemnos|Philostratus the Athenian]], ''Heroicus'' 9, ''Icon.'' 2.2; [[Pindar]], ''Pythian Odes'' 9.65</ref> Chiron was known for his knowledge and skill with medicine, and thus was credited with the discovery of botany and pharmacy, the science of herbs and medicine.<ref name=":0">[[Pliny the Elder]], ''[[Natural History (Pliny)|Naturalis Historia]]'' [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.02.0137:book=7:chapter=57&highlight=arabus#note10 7.56.3]</ref>

Like [[satyr]]s, centaurs were notorious for being wild, lusty, overly indulgent drinkers and carousers, violent when intoxicated, and generally uncultured delinquents. Chiron, by contrast, was intelligent, civilized, and kind, because he was not related directly to the other centaurs<ref>Homer, ''Iliad'' 11.831</ref> due to his parentage. He was the son of the Titan [[Cronus]] and the [[Oceanid]] [[Philyra (Oceanid)|Philyra]],<ref name=":02">[[Scholia]] on [[Apollonius Rhodius]], ''[[Argonautica]]'' 2.1235 citing [[Pherecydes of Athens|Pherecydes]]; Pliny the Elder, ''Naturalis Historia'' [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.02.0137:book=7:chapter=57&highlight=arabus#note10 7.56.3]; [[Gaius Julius Hyginus|Hyginus]], ''[[De astronomia]]'' [http://topostext.org/work.php?work_id=207 2.38.1 ff.]</ref> and thus possible brother to [[Dolops]]<ref>Hyginus, ''Fabulae'' Preface</ref> and [[Aphrus]], the ancestor and [[eponym]] of the Aphroi, i.e. the native [[Ethnic groups of Africa|Africans]].<ref>[[Suda|Suida]], ''Suda Encyclopedia'' s.v. ''Aphroi''</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Fordyce |first=C. J. |date=April 1974 |title=The Classical Papers of A.E. Housman. Collected and edited by J. Diggle and F. R. D. Goodyear. 3 vols. Pp. xv+1318. Cambridge: University Press, 1971. Cloth, £20·10. |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0009840x00242406 |journal=The Classical Review |volume=24 |issue=1 |pages=149 |doi=10.1017/s0009840x00242406 |issn=0009-840X}}</ref> Chiron lived predominantly on [[Mount Pelion]]; there he married the [[nymph]] [[Chariclo]] who bore him three daughters, [[Hippe]] (also known as [[Melanippe]] meaning the "black mare" or [[Euippe]], "good mare"), [[Endeïs]], and [[Ocyrhoe]], and one son [[Carystus (mythology)|Carystus]]. A different source also stated that his wife was called [[Naïs (mythology)|Nais]]{{Citation needed|date=May 2017}} while a certain Aristaeus was called his son.<ref>[[Greek lyric|Greek Lyric IV]]: [[Bacchylides]], ''[[iarchive:L461GreekLyricPoetryIVBacchylides/page/n226|fr. 45]]'' (from [[Scholia]]st on [[Apollonius of Rhodes]])</ref>

Like the other centaurs, Chiron was later expelled by the [[Lapiths|Lapithae]] from his home; but sacrifices were offered to him there by the [[Magnesia (regional unit)|Magnesians]] until a very late period, and the family of the Cheironidae in that neighbourhood, who were distinguished for their knowledge of medicine, were regarded as his descendants.<ref>[[Plutarch]], ''Symposiacs'' 3.1; Müller, ''Orchom.'' p. 249</ref>