A tradition claims that Odysseus was a disciple, like so many other Greek heroes, of the centaur Chiron.3​ We find him in the company of his maternal grandfather Autolycus, assisting on Mount Parnassus to hunt a wild boar that wounds him, leaving him a scar. on a knee, for which he would be recognized upon his return to Ithaca after the Trojan War; He goes to Messenia to demand compensation for the theft of some sheep; in Lacedaemon he receives from Iphitus, in exchange for a sword and a l