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    Vase painting featuring the bearded centaur; Achilles and Chiron are making eye contact; large, stylized flowers surround the pair.
    Vase painting featuring a man kneeling and treating the left arm of a seated man.
    Engraving of statue of a bearded Asclepius standing in a toga with his staff to his right with a single snake wrapped around it, to his left is his attendant.
    Cross-section of restored temple of Asclepius at Epidaurus, showing a statue of the gad seated on a throne with snakes on and behind the throne.
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    Vase painting featuring the bearded centaur; Achilles and Chiron are making eye contact; large, stylized flowers surround the pair.

    Chiron

    Vase painting, 5th century BCE
    Chiron stands holding a tree branch with a rabbit skin hanging from it and the baby Achilles
    Louvre G3; photograph by © Marie-Lan Nguyen / Wikimedia Commons

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