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"These monsters were represented as men from the

head to the loins, while the rest of the body was that of For best results, use lower case queries
a horse. The ancients were too fond of a horse to in Altavista's syntax... search help!
consider the union of his nature with man's as forming a
very degraded compound, and accordingly the Centaur
is the only one of the fancied monsters of antiquity to
which any good traits are assigned. The Centaurs were
admitted to the companionship of man, and at the
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marriage of Pirithous with Hippodamia they were among about Greek mythology? Then try
the guests. At the feast of Eurytion, one of the Centaurs, the Mythography forum!
becoming intoxicated with the wine, attempted to offer
violence to the bride; the other Centaurs followed his
example, and a dreadful conflict arose in which several
of them were slain. This is the celebrated battle of the
Lapiths and the Centaurs, a favorite subject with the
sculptors and poets of antiquity. Who's Who in Classical
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Pirithous. Chiron was instructed by Apollo and Artemis, information about Greek and
and was renowned for his skill in hunting, medicine, Roman mythology! Organized
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heroes of Greek history were his pupils. Among the rest 1200 of the most intriguing
the infant Asklepios was intrusted to his charge by characters - and creatures - from
Classical myth and legend.
Apollo, his father. When the sage returned to his home
bearing the infant, his daughter Ocyroe came forth to
meet him, and at sight of the child burst forth into a
prophetic strain (for she was a prophetess), foretelling
the glory that he was to achieve. Asklepios when grown
up became a renowned physician, and even in one Bulfinch's Mythology
instance succeeded in restoring the dead to life. Hades
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resented this, and Zeus, at his request, struck the bold
physician with lightening, and killed him, but after his
death received him into the number of the gods. Chiron
was the wisest and most just of all the Centaurs, and at
his death Zeus placed him among the stars as the
constellation Sagittarius."
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