persephomne: The Song of Achilles + Paintings That day, after we ate, we joined Chiron for his chore
persephomne:The Song of Achilles + PaintingsThat day, after we ate, we joined Chiron for his chores. It was easy, pleasurable work: collecting berries, catching fish for dinner, setting quail snares. The beginning of our studies, if it is possible to call them that. For Chiron liked to teach, not in lessons, but in opportunities. When the goats that wandered the ridges took ill, we learned how to mix purgatives for their bad stomachs, and when they were well again, how to make a poultice that repelled their ticks. When I fell down a ravine, fracturing my arm and tearing open my knee, we learned how to set splints, clean wounds, and what herbs to give against infection. On a hunting trip, after we had accidentally flushed a corncrake from its nest, he taught us to move silently and how to read the scuffles of tracks. And when we had found the animal, the best way to aim a bow or sling so that death was quick.Chiron instructing Achilles in the bow Giovanni Battista CiprianiEducation of Achilles Jean-Baptiste RegnaultThe Education of Achilles Bénigne GagnerauxThe Education of Achilles Louis Jean François Lagrenée -- source link
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