Editing Chiron (section)

==The ''Precepts of Chiron''==
[[File:Donato Creti, The Education of Achilles by Chiron.jpg|thumb|upright|left|''The Education of Achilles'' by [[Donato Creti]], 1714 (Collezioni Comunali d'Arte di Palazzo d'Accursio, Bologna, Italy)]]

A [[Didacticism|didactic poem]], ''[[Precepts of Chiron]]'', has been lost. However, fragments in heroic [[hexameter]]s that survive in quotations are considered to belong to it.<ref>{{cite book| others= Translated by H. G. Evelyn-White | author= Hesiod II |title= The Homeric Hymns and Homerica |publisher= [[Loeb Classical Library]] 503| edition=2nd |year= 1936 |pages=73– }}</ref> The common thread in the fragments, which may reflect in some degree the Acharnian image of Chiron and his teaching, is that it is expository rather than narrative, and suggests that, rather than recounting the inspiring events of archaic times as men like [[Nestor (mythology)|Nestor]]<ref>In both ''Iliad'' and ''Odyssey''.</ref> or [[Glaucus (soldier)|Glaucus]]<ref>Homer, ''Iliad'' 6.155–203</ref> might do, Chiron taught the primeval ways of mankind, the gods and nature, beginning with the caution "First, whenever you come to your house, offer good sacrifices to the eternal gods".