Heracles Wounds Chiron

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A stray arrow of Heracles, dipped in the Hydra's venom, struck the wise centaur Chiron, who could not die of immortality yet could not bear the pain; he gave up his deathlessness, and Zeus set him in the sky — by many accounts as the archer, by others as the Centaur. — Greek myth