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The teaching Chiron figure established in the Lyon editions fixes attention on the foundational role of Chiron as educator rather than on his later service as counselor. Although the text itself conflates the roles of educator and court counselor, the image suggests the disciplinarian rather than the counselor or adviser, given the scourge with which Chiron threatens his charge. The boy under instruction presumably represents Achilles. If the intent here was to offer a visual summary of his tutelage and thereby express a norm of princely education during childhood, commentary would be in order. For the motif of scourge and the image of the teacher as disciplinarian owe more to the harsh Orbilian mode of which Horace complained and to medieval conventions than to classical Greek antiquity or to Renaissance educational theory influenced by Quintilian's Institutes of Oratory. Menacing teachers wielding body strikers belonged mainly to depictions of classrooms whose youthful members were intended for other than princely careers.
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Chiron's grant to the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases (NFID), located in Bethesda, Md., will support the organization's Traveling Professorship in Rural Areas program. The goal of the professorship is to conduct educational outreach to physicians in rural areas about infectious disease, including influenza and other vaccine-preventable diseases.
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In 1994, Bradley unsuccessfully sued Chiron in an attempt to undo the deal. He dropped his quest after losing a federal appeal four years later. Bradley, who has left the CDC, couldn't be reached through his lawyer.
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