Figure Greek and Roman
Chiron
Χείρων , Cheirōn grc Chiro la
Centaur, figure from Greek mythology
A life on the record,
dated by its sources.
Roles, not beliefs
Family
The family of Chiron
Parents, consorts and children as the accounts give them. Choose a consort to see the children the stories give the two.
Accounts differ about a god’s family. Where they name different parents, the tree sets them side by side instead of choosing one.
The family as a list · 15
Kinship in an account 5
What this means
Parentage as a named source tells it. Not an independently established biological relationship, and different accounts disagree.
Does not imply an independently established biological relationship · agreement between accounts · marriage as a legal institution · exclusivity, or a single canonical pairing · shared parentage in every account · descent from the same generation in a single tree
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
Family 10
What this means
A documented human family relationship. Not a succession mechanism, and not religious transmission.
Does not imply a right to an office · transmission of a teaching · a shared religious affiliation
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
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child of (father) Cronus ruler of the Titans in Greek mythology -
child of (mother) Philyra Oceanid of Greek mythology - parent of (child) Carystus son of Chiron
- parent of (child) Chariclus son of Chiron in Greek mythology
- parent of (father) Endeïs daughter of Sciron in Greek mythology
- parent of (child) Hippe mythical character, daughter of Chiron
- parent of (child) Ocyrhoe Chiron’s daughter
- sibling of Dolops mythological Greek character, son of Cronus
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sibling of Zeus Greek god of the sky and king of the gods - married to Chariclo Chiron’s wife
Transmission
Teachers and students
Teaching passed from one person to another, in the direction of the arrows — not ancestry, and not succession.
What this means
In the direction the records give it. This is not biological ancestry and it is not institutional succession: a student who inherited no office still received the teaching, and an heir who received the office may have been taught by someone else entirely. It does not imply that teacher and student agreed.
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Sources
Sources and evidence
Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.
11 statements on this record
- 1 Has references The statement cites something outside Wikimedia. That citation has not been checked here.
- 10 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it.
Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.
Three layers, three licences
- Text
- Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted, not merged
- Pictures
- Wikimedia Commons · each file’s own terms
Review
Not yet read by an editor here. Every relationship on this page is an import.
Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.
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