Hero Tales Page 7
[1]Cheiron the Centaur lived in a cavern on Mount Pelion and wasreputed to be the wisest of mortals. All the young heroes of the time,Jason, Achilles, and others, were his pupils and spent their boyhoodwith him. He is sometimes represented as having the head of a man andthe body of a horse; but it is probable that he was only one of a raceof men noted for their skill in horsemanship. This story is supposedto have been related by him to young Odysseus (Ulysses), who visitedhim in his cavern.