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Centaur

A centaur (/ˈsɛntɔːr, ˈsɛntɑːr/ SEN-tor, SEN-tar; Ancient Greek: κένταυρος, romanized: kéntauros; Latin: centaurus), occasionally hippocentaur, collectively called the Centaurs or the 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…

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Folklore
Greek
Grouping
Legendary creature
Habitat
Land
Other name(s)
Kentaur, Centaurus, Sagittary
Region
Greece, Cyprus
Similar entities
Minotaur, satyr, harpy

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Centaur

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related to Sources · 125
Centaur → Aeneid, Andr, Apollodorus, Argonautica, Argonauticon, Ashgate, Bernadotte Perrin, Bibliotheca Historica, Bill Thayer's Web SiteDiodorus, Books, Boston, Brill, Brill's New Pauly, Brookes More, Bucolics, Burlington, Cambridge, Centaurs, Charles Henry Oldfather, Charm
related to Gallery · 32
Centaur → Antonio Canova, Bas, Battle, BC, Berlin, CE, Centauress, CentauromachyBotticelli, Centaurs, Collection, Diosphos Painter, Empire, Faun, Furietti CentaursAugustin Courtet, Hadrian's Villa, John La FargeA, Kremlin, Laurent Marqueste, Lyon, Pallas
related to Centauromachy · 25
Centaur → Another Lapith, Battle, Caeneus, Centauromachy, Centaurs, Elizabeth Lawrence, Hippodamia, Hippodamia's, Human Culture, In, Its History, Ixion, Lapith, Lapithae, Lapiths, Meaning, Michelangelo, Parthenon, Phidias, Pirithous
related to Classical literature · 25
Centaur → Alexandria, Anthony's, Athanasius, BC, Egypt, Giovanni, Great, Hermit, Jerome's, Life, Lucretius, Middle Ages, Nature, Of, On, Paul, Sassetta, Specifically, St Anthony, St Anthony Abbot
related to Creation of centaurs · 23
Centaur → According, Another, Aphrodite, Apollo, As, Centaurus, Centaurus's, Cyprian, Cyprian Centaurs, Cyprus, Greece, Hera, In, Ixion, Lapithes, Lapiths, Magnesian, Nephele, Nonnus, Stilbe
related to Further reading · 20
Centaur → Berlin-Boston, Bey, Centaurs, Cyropaedia, Cyrus Among, Danzig, De Gruyter, Debating Cyrus, Ethico-Political Consequences, Facundo, Illarraga, ISBN, Johnson, Leadership, Neglect, Series, Technological Transformation, Why Not, Xenophon Studies, Xenophon’s
related to Medieval literature · 19
Centaur → Bolgia, Cacus, Centaurs, Chiron, Dante, God, Hell, In, In Canto XII, In Canto XXIV, Inferno, Italian, Nessus, Phlegethon, Pholus, Purgatorio, The, Theseus, Virgil
related to Origin of the myth · 17
Centaur → Aztecs, Bernal Díaz, Castillo, Centaurs, Georges Dumézil, Greek, Hellenic, Indian Gandharva, Mary Renault's The Bull, Minoan Aegean, Robert Graves, Sea, Spanish, The, The Lapith, The Thessalian, Thessaly
related to Modern day literature · 16
Centaur → An, Chiron, Forbidden Forest, Hogwarts, In, John Updike's, Lewis's The Chronicles, Narnia, New York, Olympians, Pennsylvanian, Prometheus, Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson, Rowling's Harry Potter, The, The Centaur
related to Medieval art · 15
Centaur → AD, Auvergne, Centaurs, Classical, Dionysiac, Dionysian, Meigle, Mozac Abbey, Other, Perthshire, Pictish, Roman Empire, Romanesque, Scotland, Though

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CentaurFolkloreGreek1.00infobox
CentaurGroupingLegendary creature1.00infobox
CentaurHabitatLand1.00infobox
CentaurOther name(s)Kentaur, Centaurus, Sagittary1.00infobox
CentaurRegionGreece, Cyprus1.00infobox
CentaurSimilar entitiesMinotaur, satyr, harpy1.00infobox
CentaurSub groupingHybrid1.00infobox
carrying rocks or boulders.CentauromachyThe Centaurs are best known for their fight with the Lapiths whoinstance ofand displaying great feats of strength0.80text
according to one origin mythinstance ofand displaying great feats of strength0.80text
would have been cousins to the centaursinstance ofand displaying great feats of strength0.80text
carrying rocks or bouldersinstance ofand displaying great feats of strength0.80text
astronomyinstance ofwho are gifted in fields0.80text

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