Cultural Adaptations
Chiron appears in Dante Alighieri's Inferno. He leads the centaurs in Hell's Circle of Violence where they fire their arrows at any of the damned that try to escape from the Phlegethon.
John Updike's novel The Centaur is an expansion and interpretation of the story of Chiron, set in the context of 20th-century small-town America.
Chiron is a character in the Percy Jackson & the Olympians series by Rick Riordan.
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“A culture may be conceived as a network of beliefs and purposes in which any string in the net pulls and is pulled by the others, thus perpetually changing the configuration of the whole. If the cultural element called morals takes on a new shape, we must ask what other strings have pulled it out of line. It cannot be one solitary string, nor even the strings nearby, for the network is three-dimensional at least.”
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