Centaurs
animal · 3 works · 3 mentions · 4 anchored passages
also in the atlas: Centaurs the group
four-legged Centaurs
in the texts
Heracles
Half-human, half-horse creatures whom Heracles battled among his labors.
what did I not destroy, whether lions, or triple-bodied Typhons, or giants or the battle against the hosts of four-legged Centaurs?
De Rerum Natura
Mythological hybrid creature, half man half horse, used by Lucretius as the paradigm case of a biologically impossible hybrid.
That from a man and from the seed of horse,
Creatures of twofold stock and double frame,
The beast of draft, can Centaurs be composed
Phaedrus
Hybrid mythological creatures Socrates lists as further problems for anyone who insists on rationalizing every legend.
But I, Phaedrus, think such explanations are very pretty in general, but are the inventions of a very clever and laborious and not altogether enviable man, for no other reason than because after this he must explain the forms of the Centaurs, and then that of the Chimaera, and there presses in upon him a whole crowd of such creatures, Gorgons and Pegas, and multitudes of strange, inconceivable, portentous natures.