Centaurs
animal · 2 works · 2 mentions · 3 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,
The beast of draft, can Centaurs be composed
Creatures of twofold stock and double frame,