Creatures with the head arms and chest of a man but the legs and lower half of a horse. Myths and stories sometimes depicted having horns, wings or both. ... Centaurs of Greek Mythology;

The CENTAURS were creatures living in the mountains of Thessaly that had the upper part of a human being and the lower part of a horse.

Lucretius, who discounts the possibility of centaurs. He reasons that men and horses have different life spans, so the horse end would die before the man.

The centaurs were descendants of Centaurus, a son of the music god Apollo. Most centaurs were governed by the bestial half of their double nature.

Half-men and half horses, the Centaurs lived on Mt Pelion in Thessaly. ... The smell of the meat made the other centaurs attack Pholos cave in order to get the food, but Heracles killed some and

Known since the days of ancient Greece, centaurs have endured through the ages. ... Large and powerful, centaurs are sensual and sexual as well. These aspects are portrayed in some of the images

Monstrous is your first source of information about centaurs such as Nessus and Chiron and other mythological monsters ... There are also deer-centaurs, dog-centaurs, and the Gaelic androcephalous or

Origins of the centaur, and link ... maintained by Anthony G. Francis, Jr. ... cen.taur \'sen-.to.(*)r\ n [ME, fr. L Centaurus, fr. Gk Kentauros] 1: one of a race fabled to be half man and half horse and

Myths of Centaurs, half-horse, half-human. ... Here is one version of the origins of centaurs: ...sinful Ixion [a primal king who murdered his father-in-law] fell in love with Hera, Zeus' wife and

The father of Centaurs was Centaurus, who was held in disrepute by both men and gods. ... The pivotal event in the history of the Centaurs was their war with the Lapiths. King Peirithous of the