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1 de may. de 2024 · Centaur, in Greek mythology, a race of creatures, part horse and part man, dwelling in the mountains of Thessaly and Arcadia. Traditionally they were the offspring of Ixion, king of the neighbouring Lapiths, and were best known for their fight (centauromachy) with the Lapiths, which resulted from.
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The centaur race (Kentauroi or Hippokentauroi in Greek) was created out of Zeus' anger. A man named Ixion lived on Mt. Pelion and wanted to marry Dia, the daughter of Deioneous, and promised to give her father a large bride price. Instead, Ixion built a large pit filled with blazing coals to catch his father-in-law and kill him when he came to coll...
The earliest depictions of centaurs had six legs—a horse body with an entire man attached to the front. Later, centaurs were illustrated with four horse legs and a man's torso and head springing from where the horse's head and neck would be. Almost all of the centaurs were mindlessly sexually and physically violent, half-bestial with little access ...
The homeland of the centaurs was in the wooded areas of Mount Pelion, where they lived side by side with nymphs and satyrs; but they were ejected from that location at the end of the wars with their kinsmen the Lapith. The tale is that Peirithoos, a faithful companion of the Greek hero Theseusand a chieftain of the Lapith, threw a feast on his marr...
Cheiron (or Chiron) was a wise centaur who was born immortal, married Chariklo and had children, and accumulated wisdom and knowledge and a fondness for humans. He was said to have been the son of the titan Kronos, who turned himself into a horse to seduce the Oceanid nymph Phillyrea. Cheiron was the tutor of several of the heroes of Greek history,...
Nessos (or Nessus), on the other hand, was the more typically behaved centaur whose job was to ferry people across the river Euenos. After his labors were ended, Herakles married Deineira and lived with her father the King of Calydon until he killed a page of royal blood. Herakles was forced to flee home to Thessaly, and he and his wife Deianeira r...
Hard, Robin. "The Routledge Handbook of Greek Mythology. London: Routledge, 2003.Hansen, William. "Classical Mythology: A Guide to the Mythical World of the Greeks and Romans." Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.Leeming, David. "The Oxford Companion to World Mythology." Oxford UK: Oxford University Press, 2005. Print.Scobie, Alex. "The Origins of 'Centaurs'." Folklore 89.2 (1978): 142–47.5 de oct. de 2012 · A centaur was a creature from Greek mythology which was half-man and half-horse. The head, arms and torso of a centaur were human and joined at the waist to the body and legs of a horse. Centaurs represented...
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A centaur ( / ˈsɛntɔːr, ˈsɛntɑːr / SEN-tor, SEN-tar; Ancient Greek: κένταυρος, romanized : kéntauros; Latin: centaurus ), occasionally hippocentaur, also called Ixionidae ( Ancient Greek: Ἰξιονίδαι, romanized : Ixionídai, lit. 'sons of Ixion '), is a creature from Greek mythology with the upper body of a human and the lower body and legs of a ho...
The Centaur is a novel by John Updike, published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1963. It won the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction. Portions of the novel first appeared in Esquire and The New Yorker. The French translation of the novel won the Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger (Best Foreign Book Prize).
En la mitología griega, el centauro (en griego Κένταυρος, Kentauros; plural Κένταυροι, Kentauroi; en latín Centaurus/Centauri) es una criatura legendaria con la cabeza, los brazos y el torso de un hombre y el cuerpo y las patas parecidas de un caballo. A veces también son denominados como hipocentauros 1 o ...
Centaurs. In Greek mythology, Centaurs (or Kentauroi) are half-man, half horse creatures that inhabited the mountains and forests of Thessaly. Centaurs were said to be primal, existing in tribes and making their homes in caves, hunting wild animals and arming themselves with rocks and tree branches.
