Chiron

	Email		Print
	Bookmark		Link

Chiron

In Greek mythology

Greek mythology

Greek mythology is the body of myths and legends belonging to the Ancient Greece concerning their List of Greek mythological figures#Immortals and Greek hero cult, Cosmology#Metaphysical cosmology, and the origins and significance of their own cult and ritual practices....
, Chiron or Cheiron ("hand") was held as the superlative centaur

Centaur

In Greek mythology, the centaurs are a race of creatures composed of part human and part horse. In early Attica Pottery of ancient Greece, they are depicted with the torso of a human joined at the waist to the horse's withers, where the horse's neck would be....
among his brethren. Like the satyrs, centaurs were notorious for being overly indulgent drinkers and carousers, given to violence when intoxicated, and generally uncultured delinquents. Chiron, by contrast, was intelligent, civilized and kind. He was known for his knowledge and skill with medicine. According to an archaic myth he was sired by Cronus

Cronus

Cronus or Kronos, , was the leader and the youngest of the first generation of Titan , divine descendants of Gaia , the earth, and Uranus , the sky....
when he had taken the form of a horse and impregnated the nymph

Nymph

In Greek mythology, a nymph is any member of a large class of mythological entities in human form. They were typically associated with a particular location or landform....
Philyra, Chiron's lineage was different from other centaurs, who were born of sun and raincloud, rendered by Greeks of the Classic period as from the union of the king Ixion

Ixion

In Greek mythology, Ixion was king of the Lapiths, the most ancient tribe of Thessaly, and a son of Ares or Antion or the notorious evildoer Phlegyas, whose name connotes "fiery"....
, consigned to a fiery wheel, and Nephele

Nephele

In Greek mythology, Nephele was a cloud nymph who figured prominently in the story of Phrixus and Helle .Greek myth also has it that Nephele is the cloud whom Zeus created in the image of Hera to trick Ixion, since he tried to rape the goddess....
("cloud"), which in the Olympian telling Zeus

Zeus

Zeus in Greek mythology is the king of the gods, the ruler of Mount Olympus and the god of the sky father and List of thunder gods. His symbols are the thunderbolt, eagle, bull , and oak....
invented to look like Hera

Hera

In the Twelve Olympians of classical Greek Mythology, Hera or Here was the wife and older sister of Zeus. Her chief function was as goddess of women and marriage....
.

Chiron's haunts were on Mount Pelion; there he married the nymph

Nymph

In Greek mythology, a nymph is any member of a large class of mythological entities in human form. They were typically associated with a particular location or landform....
Chariclo

Chariclo

In Greek mythology, Chariclo was a nymph, daughter of Cychreus and Stilbe. She married Chiron and became the mother of Hippe, Endeis, Ocyrhoe, and Carystus ....
who bore him three daughters, Hippe

Hippe

In Greek mythology, Hippe was the daughter of the Centaur Chiron and Chariclo. She bore a daughter, Melanippe or Arne , to Aeolus, and was ashamed to tell her father....
(Melanippe

Melanippe

In Greek mythology, Melanippe referred to several different people.#Daughter of the Centaur Chiron. Also known as Hippe or Euippe. She bore a daughter to Aeolus, Melanippe or Arne ....
or Euippe), Endeis

Endeis

Endeis in Greek mythology was the wife of Aeacus and mother of Telamon and Peleus. Endeis was the daughter of either the Centaur Chiron and the nymph Chariclo, or of Sciron of Megara....
, and Ocyrhoe

Ocyrhoe

In Greek mythology, Ocyrhoe or Ocyrrhoe refers to three characters.*Ocyrhoe was a daughter of Chiron and Chariclo. Apollo turned her into a horse because she was an excellent prophetess....
, and one son Carystus.

A great healer, astrologer

Astrologer

An astrologer practices one or more forms of astrology. Typically an astrologer draws a horoscope for the time of an event, such as a person's birth, and interprets celestial points and their placements at the time of the event to better understand someone, determine the auspiciousness of an undertaking's beginning, etc....
, and respected oracle, Chiron was said to be the last centaur and highly revered as a teacher and tutor.

Discussion

Ask a question about 'Chiron'

Start a new discussion about 'Chiron'

Answer questions from other users

Full Discussion Forum

Encyclopedia

In Greek mythology

Greek mythology

Centaur

Cronus

Nymph

Ixion

Nephele

Zeus

Hera

Nymph

In Greek mythology, a nymph is any member of a large class of mythological entities in human form. They were typically associated with a particular location or landform....
Chariclo

Chariclo

Hippe

In Greek mythology, Hippe was the daughter of the Centaur Chiron and Chariclo. She bore a daughter, Melanippe or Arne , to Aeolus, and was ashamed to tell her father....
(Melanippe

Melanippe

Endeis

Ocyrhoe

Astrologer

Culture hero

A culture hero is a mythological hero specific to some group who changes the world through invention or discovery . A typical culture hero might be credited as the discoverer of fire, or agriculture, folk music, tradition and religion, and is usually the most important legendary figure of a people, sometimes as the founder of its ruling dyna...
es: Asclepius

Asclepius

Asclepius is the god of medicine and healing in ancient Greek mythology. Asclepius represents the healing aspect of the medical arts, while his daughters Hygieia, Meditrina, Iaso, Aceso, Aglaea and Panacea symbolize the forces of cleanliness, medicine, and healing, respectively....
, Aristaeus

Aristaeus

A minor god in Greek mythology, which we read largely through Athenian writers, Aristaeus or Aristaios , "ever close follower of the flocks", was the culture hero credited with the discovery of many useful arts, including bee-keeping; he was the son of Apollo and the huntress Cyrene ....
, Ajax

Ajax (mythology)

Ajax or Aias was a Greek mythology, the son of Telamon and Periboea and king of Salamis Island. He plays an important role in Homer's Iliad and in the Epic Cycle, a series of epic poems about the Trojan War....
, Aeneas

Aeneas

This article is about the Roman hero. For other uses, see Aeneas .In Greco-Roman mythology, Aeneas was a Troy hero, the son of prince Anchises and the goddess Venus_....
, Actaeon

Actaeon

In Greek mythology, Actaeon , son of the priestly herdsman Aristaeus and Autonoe in Boeotia, was a famous Thebes, Greece hero, trained by the centaur Cheiron, who suffered the fatal wrath of Artemis; ....
, Caeneus

Caeneus

In Greek mythology, Caeneus was a Lapith hero and originally a Thessaly woman, Caenis....
, Theseus

Theseus

For other uses, see Theseus Theseus was a legendary king of Athens, son of Aethra , and fathered by Aegeus and Poseidon, with whom Aethra lay in one night....
, Achilles

Achilles

In Greek mythology, Achilles was a Greeks hero of the Trojan War, the central character and the greatest warrior of Homer's Iliad, which takes for its theme ; the Wrath of Achilles....
, Jason

Jason

Jason was a late ancient Greece Greek mythology figure, famous as the leader of the Argonauts and their quest for the Golden Fleece. He was the son of Aeson, the rightful king of Iolcus....
, Peleus

Peleus

In Greek mythology, Pele?s was a Greek hero cult who was already known to Homer. Peleus was the son of Aeacus, king of the island of Aegina, and Ende?s, the oread of Mount Pelion in Thessaly; he became the father of Achilles....
, Telamon

Telamon

In Greek mythology, Telamon , son of the king Aeacus, of Aegina, and Endeis and brother of Peleus, accompanied Jason as one his Argonauts, and was present at the hunt for the Calydonian Boar....
, Heracles

Heracles

In Greek mythology, Heracles or Herakles meaning "glory of Hera", or "Glorious through Hera" Alcides or Alcaeus " was a hero, the son of Zeus and Alcmene, foster son of Amphitryon and great-grandson of Perseus....
, Oileus

Oileus

In Greek mythology, Oileus was the king of Locris. His father was given as Odoedocus and his mother as Agrianome . Oileus's wife was Eriopis, who bore him a son named Ajax the Lesser....
, Phoenix

Phoenix (Iliad)

In Homer Iliad, Phoenix , son of Amyntor, is one of the Myrmidons led by Achilles who along with Odysseus and Ajax urges Achilles to re-enter battle....
, and in some stories, Dionysus

Dionysus

Chiron's death

His nobility is further reflected in the story of his death as Chiron sacrificed his life, allowing mankind to obtain the use of fire. Being the son of Kronos, a titan, he was immortal and so could not die. So it was left to Heracles to arrange a bargain with Zeus

Zeus

Prometheus

In Greek mythology, Prometheus is a Titan known for his wily intelligence, who stole fire from Zeus and gave it to human beings for their use....
who had been chained to a rock and left to die for his transgressions. Chiron had been poisoned with an arrow belonging to Heracles that had been treated with the blood of the Hydra

Lernaean Hydra

Pholus

Pholus commonly refers to:* A Centaur planetoid, 5145 Pholus, discovered in 1992 by David L. Rabinowitz* Pholus , a wise Centaur killed indirectly through the actions of Herakles...
on Mount Pelion

Pelion

Pelion or Pelium is a mountain at the southeastern part of Thessaly in central Greece, forming a hook-like peninsula between the Pagasetic Gulf and the Aegean Sea....
in Thessaly

Thessaly

Thessaly is one of the 13 Peripheries of Greece of Greece, and is further sub-divided into 4 Prefectures of Greece. The capital of the periphery and traditional Regions of Greece is Larissa....
when he visited his friend during his fourth labour in defeating the Erymanthian Boar

Erymanthian Boar

In Greek mythology, the Erymanthian Boar is remembered in connection with Labours of Hercules, in which Heracles, the enemy of Hera, visited in turn "all the other sites of the Goddess throughout the world, to conquer every conceivable 'monster' of nature and rededicate the primordial world to its new master, his Olympian father," Zeus....
. While they were at supper, Heracles asked for some wine to accompany his meal. Pholus, who ate his food raw, was taken aback. He had been given a vessel of sacred wine by Dionysus

Dionysus

In classical mythology, Dionysus or Dionysos , is the God of wine, the inspirer of ritual madness and ecstasy, and a major figure of Greek mythology, and one of the twelve Olympians, among whom Greek mythology treated Dionysus as a late arrival....
sometime earlier, to be kept in trust for the rest of the centaurs until the right time for its opening. At Heracles' prompting, Pholus was forced to produce the vessel of sacred wine. The hero, gasping for wine, grabbed it from him and forced it open. Thereupon the vapours of the sacred wine wafted out of the cave and intoxicated the wild centaurs, led by Nessus

Nessus (mythology)

In Greek mythology, Nessus was a famous centaur who was killed by Heracles, and whose tainted blood in turn killed Heracles. He was the son of Ixion and Nephele, the Cloud....
, who had gathered outside. They attacked the cave with stones and fir trees. Heracles was forced to shoot many arrows (poisoned, of course, with the blood of the Hydra

Lernaean Hydra

In Greek mythology, the Lernaean Hydra The Hydra was the offspring of Typhon and Echidna , noisome offspring of the earth goddess, Gaia. It was said to be the sibling of the Nemean Lion, the Stymphalian birds, the Chimera ,and Cerberus....
) to drive them back. During this assault, Chiron was hit in the thigh by one of the poisoned arrows. After the centaurs had fled, Pholus emerged from the cave to observe the destruction. Being of a philosophical frame of mind, he pulled one of the arrows from the body of a dead centaur and wondered how such a little thing as an arrow could have caused so much death and destruction. In that instant, he let slip the arrow from his hand and it dropped and hit him in the hoof, killing him instantly.

Ironically, Chiron, the master of the healing arts, could not heal himself, so he willingly gave up his immortality. He was honoured with a place in the sky, for the Greeks as the constellation

Constellation

A constellation is a group of stars that appear to have a physical proximity in the sky. The stars in a constellation are often vastly distant from each other, but they appear close to each other from the perspective of Earth....
Sagittarius

Sagittarius (constellation)

Sagittarius is one of the constellations of the zodiac. Its name is Latin for the archer, and its symbol is , a stylized arrow. Sagittarius is commonly represented as a centaur drawing a bow....
, and in modern times represented by the constellation of the southern hemisphere, Centaurus

Centaurus

Centaurus is a bright constellation in the celestial sphere. list of constellations by area constellations in the sky, Centaurus was included among the 48 constellations listed by of 1st century astronomer Ptolemy, and it remains one of the 88 modern constellations....
.

Chiron saved the life of Peleus

Peleus

Acastus

Acastus is a character in Greek mythology. He sailed with Jason and the Argonauts, and participated in the hunt for the Calydonian Boar....
tried to kill him by taking his sword and leaving him out in the woods to be slaughtered by the centaurs. Chiron retrieved the sword for Peleus. Some sources speculate that Chiron was originally a Thessalian

Thessaly

Greece

Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , is a country in southeastern Europe, situated on the southern end of the Balkans. It has borders with Albania, Bulgaria and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia to the north, and Turkey to the east....
pantheon as a centaur.

Chiron's disciples

Achilles
Achilles

In Greek mythology, Achilles was a Greeks hero of the Trojan War, the central character and the greatest warrior of Homer's Iliad, which takes for its theme ; the Wrath of Achilles....
- When Achilles' mother Thetis
Thetis

Silver-footed Thetis , disposer or "placer" , is encountered in Greek mythology mostly as a sea nymph, one of the fifty Nereids, daughters of the ancient one of the seas with shape-shifting abilities who survives in the historical vestiges of most later Greek myths as Proteus ....
left home and returned to the Nereids
Nereids

In Greek mythology, the Nereids are sea nymphs, the fifty daughters of Nereus and Doris . They often accompany Poseidon and are always friendly and helpful towards sailors fighting perilous storms....
, Peleus brought his son Achilles to Chiron, who received him as a disciple, and fed him on the innards of lions and wild swine, and the marrow of she-wolves.

Actaeon
Actaeon

In Greek mythology, Actaeon , son of the priestly herdsman Aristaeus and Autonoe in Boeotia, was a famous Thebes, Greece hero, trained by the centaur Cheiron, who suffered the fatal wrath of Artemis; ....
- Actaeon, who was bred by Chiron to be a hunter, is famous for his terrible death; for he, in the shape of a deer
Deer

Deer are the ruminant mammals forming the family Cervidae . A number of broadly similar animals from related families within the order even-toed ungulate are often also called deer....
, was devoured by his own dogs. The dogs, ignorant of what they had done, came to the cave of Chiron seeking for their master, and the Centaur fashioned an image of Actaeon in order to sooth their grief.

Aristaeus
Aristaeus

A minor god in Greek mythology, which we read largely through Athenian writers, Aristaeus or Aristaios , "ever close follower of the flocks", was the culture hero credited with the discovery of many useful arts, including bee-keeping; he was the son of Apollo and the huntress Cyrene ....
- The Muses were, according to some, those who taught Aristaeus the arts of healing and of prophecy. Aristaeus discovered honey
Honey

Honey is a sweet fluid produced by honey bees , and derived from the nectar of flowers. According to the United States National Honey Board and various international food regulations, "honey stipulates a pure product that does not allow for the addition of any other substance?this includes, but is not limited to, water or other sweeteners...
and the olive
Olive

The Olive is a species of small tree in the family Oleaceae, native to the coastal areas of the eastern Mediterranean region, from Lebanon, Syria and the maritime parts of Turkey and northern Iran at the south end of the Caspian Sea....
. After the death of his son Actaeon he migrated to Sardinia
Sardinia

Sardinia is the Mediterranean islands#By area island in the Mediterranean Sea . The area of Sardinia is . The island is surrounded by the France island of Corsica, the Italian Peninsula, Tunisia and the Balearic Islands....
.

Asclepius
Asclepius

Asclepius is the god of medicine and healing in ancient Greek mythology. Asclepius represents the healing aspect of the medical arts, while his daughters Hygieia, Meditrina, Iaso, Aceso, Aglaea and Panacea symbolize the forces of cleanliness, medicine, and healing, respectively....
- The great medicine of Asclepius is based on Chiron's teaching. Apollo
Apollo

In Greek mythology and Roman mythology, Apollo , is one of the most important and many-sided of the Twelve Olympians. The ideal of the kouros , Apollo has been variously recognized as a god of light and the sun; truth and prophecy; archery; medicine and healing; music, poetry, and the arts; and more....
killed Asclepius' mother Coronis
Coronis (Greek mythology)

There are several characters in Greek mythology by the name Coronis . These include:*Coronis , daughter of Phlegyas, King of the Lapiths, was one of Apollo's lovers....
while still pregnant but snatched the child from the pyre, bringing him to Chiron who reared him and taught him the arts of healing and hunting.

Jason
Jason

Jason was a late ancient Greece Greek mythology figure, famous as the leader of the Argonauts and their quest for the Golden Fleece. He was the son of Aeson, the rightful king of Iolcus....
- Aeson
Aeson

In Greek mythology, Aeson or Aison was the son of Tyro and Cretheus, who also had his brothers Pheres and Amythaon. Aeson was the father of Jason and Promachus with Polymede, the daughter of Autolycus....
gave his son Jason to the Centaur Chiron to rear at the time when he was deposed by King Pelias. Jason is the Captain of the Argonauts
Argonauts

In Greek mythology, the Argonauts were a band of heroes who, in the years before the Trojan War, accompanied Jason to Colchis in his quest to find the Golden Fleece....
.

Medus
Medus

In Greek mythology, Medus was the son of Medea. His father is generally agreed to be Aegeas, although Hesiod states that Jason fathered him and Cheiron raised him....
- Medus, who some call Polyxenus
Polyxenus

In Greek mythology, Polyxenus was one of the first priests of Demeter and one of the first to learn the secrets of the Eleusinian Mysteries.In Biology, Polyxenus is a genus of millipede, which are covered with detachable barbed bristles to defend against predators....
and others Medeus, is the man after whom the country Media
Medes

The Medes were an Ancient Iranian peoples who lived in the northwestern portions of present-day Iran. This area was known in Greek as Media or Medea ....
was called. He was the son of Medea by either Aegeus or by Jason. Medus died in a military campaign against the Indians
India

India, officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and outlying territories by total area country by geographical area, the List of countries by population country, and the most populous liberal democracy in the world....
.

Patroclus
Patroclus

In Greek mythology, as recorded in the Iliad by Homer, Patroclus, or Patroklos , son of Menoetius , was Achilles? beloved comrade and, according to some , his lover....
- Patroclus' father left him in Chiron's cave, to study, side by side with Achilles
Achilles

In Greek mythology, Achilles was a Greeks hero of the Trojan War, the central character and the greatest warrior of Homer's Iliad, which takes for its theme ; the Wrath of Achilles....
, the chords of the harp, and learn to hurl spears and mount and ride upon the back of genial Chiron.

Peleus
Peleus

In Greek mythology, Pele?s was a Greek hero cult who was already known to Homer. Peleus was the son of Aeacus, king of the island of Aegina, and Ende?s, the oread of Mount Pelion in Thessaly; he became the father of Achilles....
- Peleus, father of Achilles, was once rescued by Chiron: Acastus
Acastus

Acastus is a character in Greek mythology. He sailed with Jason and the Argonauts, and participated in the hunt for the Calydonian Boar....
, son of Pelias
Pelias

Pelias was king of Iolcus in Greek mythology, the son of Tyro, daughter of Aleus, and of either Poseidon or Cretheus. His wife is recorded as either Anaxibia, daughter of Bias , or Phylomache, daughter of Amphion....
, purified Peleus for having killed (undesignedly) his father-in-law Eurytion. However, Acastus' wife, Astydameia
Astydameia

In Greek mythology, Astydameia is a name attributed to three individuals....
, fell in love with Peleus, and as he refused her she intrigued against him, telling Acastus that Peleus had attempted to rape her. Acastus would not kill the man he had purified, but took him to hunt on Mount Pelion. When Peleus had fallen asleep, Acastus deserted him, hiding his sword. On arising and looking for his sword, Peleus was caught by the centaurs and would have perished, if he had not been saved by Chiron, who also restored him his sword after having sought and found it. Chiron arranged the marriage of Peleus with Thetis, bringing Achilles up for her. He also told Peleus how to conquer the Nereid Thetis who, changing her form, could prevent him from catching her. In other legends, it was Proteus who helped Peleus. When Peleus married Thetis, he received from Chiron an ashen spear, which Achilles took to the war at Troy
Troy

Troy is a legendary city and center of the Trojan War, as described in the Epic Cycle, and especially in the Iliad, one of the two epic poems attributed to Homer....
. This spear is the same with which Achilles healed Telephus by scraping off the rust.

Modern references

Chiron's name, and the underlying mythology, serve to inform many of the root words connected with the ancient healing arts, e.g. cheiromancy, or the art of divining the will of the gods through the interpretation of the patterns of the hands. The Chiron Corporation

Chiron Corporation

Chiron Corporation was a multinational biotechnology firm based in Emeryville, California that was acquired by Novartis on April 20 2006. It had offices and facilities in eighteen countries on five continents....
was named after Chiron in memory of his healing abilities.

Chiron has been adapted numerous times in later fictional works:

Dante
DANTE

DANTE is a not-for-profit organisation that plans, builds and operates the international networks that interconnect the various National Research and Education Networks in Europe and surrounding regions....
's The Divine Comedy
The Divine Comedy

The Divine Comedy , written by Dante Alighieri between 1308 and his death in 1321, is widely considered the central epic poem of Italian literature, and is seen as one of the greatest works of world literature....
, in which he is the chief guardian of the seventh circle of Hell
Hell

In many religious traditions, Hell is a place of suffering and punishment in the afterlife, often in the underworld. Religions with a linear Divinity history often depict Hell as endless ....
.
Goethe's Faust
Faust

Faust or Faustus is the protagonist of a classic German folklore who makes a pact with the Devil in exchange for knowledge. Faust's tale is the basis for many literary, artistic, cinematic, and musical works, such as those by Christopher Marlowe, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Thomas Mann, Hector Berlioz, Franz Liszt, Charles Gounod, Gu...
(Part II, Act II, scene 5, the section titled "Lower Peneios"), wherein Faust seeks Chiron's aid in his search for Helen of Troy and receives important lessons in his search for complete understanding.
John Updike
John Updike

John Hoyer Updike was an American novelist, poet, short story writer, art critic, and literary critic. Updike's most famous work is his Rabbit series ....
's novel The Centaur
The Centaur

The Centaur is a 1963 novel by John Updike. It won the National Book Award in 1964. The story concerns George Caldwell, a school teacher, and his son Peter, outside of Alton , Pennsylvania....
is an expansion and interpretation of the story of Chiron, set in the context of 20th century small-town America.
He is in David Gemmell
David Gemmell

David Andrew Gemmell was a bestselling British author of heroic fantasy. A former journalist and newspaper editor, Gemmell's first fiction work published in 1984....
's novel Dark Prince.
Chiron forms the basis for the character Philoctetes in the Disney film Hercules
Hercules (1997 film)

Hercules is a United States animated feature film, produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released on June 27, 1997 by Walt Disney Pictures....
.
He is a character in the computer games Age of Mythology
Age of Mythology

Age of Mythology , is a mythology-based, real-time strategy Personal computer game developed by Ensemble Studios and published by Microsoft Game Studios....
and Titan Quest
Titan Quest

Titan Quest is a Action RPG developed by Iron Lore Entertainment. It was released worldwide by THQ on June 26 2006. The game was released on Steam , along with the expansion Titan Quest: Immortal Throne, on July 17, 2007....
.
There is a Yu-Gi-Oh!
Yu-Gi-Oh!

is a Japanese manga created by Kazuki Takahashi, which has spawned a franchise including multiple anime series, a trading card game, and numerous video games....
card called Chiron the Mage after the Greek character.
Chiron
Chiron (Percy Jackson)

Chiron in Percy Jackson & The Olympians is a modern adaption of Chiron from the Greek mythologies.In the series he plays the part of the mentor and activities director to the main protagonist Percy Jackson and the other demigods residing at Camp Half-Blood....
trains modern-day demigods at Camp Half-Blood in Rick Riordan
Rick Riordan

Rick Riordan author from Texas of the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series. He also wrote the Tres Navarre mystery series for adults and helped to edit Demigods and Monsters, a collection of essays on the topic of his Percy Jackson series....
's novel series Percy Jackson and the Olympians
Percy Jackson and the Olympians

Percy Jackson & The Olympians is a series of adventure and fantasy books by Rick Riordan. Set in the contemporary United States, the series is based prominently on Greek mythology and Roman mythology, although some creative license is taken....
.
Chiron is the name of a track on the melodic metal band All That Remains
All That Remains

All That Remains may refer to:*All That Remains a melodic metalcore band from Springfield, Massachusetts*All That Remains , an album by the band Fozzy...
album Overcome (album).

Symbolism

Chiron appears on the cap badge of the Royal Army Veterinary Corps

Royal Army Veterinary Corps

The Royal Army Veterinary Corps is an administrative and operational branch of the British Army responsible for the provision, training and care of animals....
and also appeared on a similar badge worn by the Royal Canadian Army Veterinary Corps

Royal Canadian Army Veterinary Corps

The Royal Canadian Army Veterinary Corps was an Corps#Administrative of the Canadian Army, founded in 1910 and disbanded in 1940. The cap badge of the RCAVC was similar to that of British Army's Royal Army Veterinary Corps, but featured a larger figure of Chiron in a wreath of maple leaf surmounted by a Crown , with the letters RCAVC on th...
. Chiron is the official mascot of the Delta Lambda Phi

Delta Lambda Phi

Delta Lambda Phi is a national social fraternities and sororities for gay, bisexual, and progressive men. It offers a social environment and structure similar to other Greek-model college fraternities....
national social fraternity.

The centaur logo of Remy Martin

Rémy Martin

R?my Martin is a Cognac and Champagne-Cognac originally produced by R?my Martin, a France winemaker, who founded the company in 1724. It is now owned by R%C3%A9my Cointreau, a company founded in 1991....
cognac depicts Chiron.

Chiron

Chiron's death

Chiron's disciples

Modern references

Symbolism

External links