Lapiths
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the Lapiths · fighting Lapiths · the Lapith spearmen · the heroes who were there assembled
in the texts
Shield of Heracles
A people of silver-wrought warriors, led by Caeneus, Dryas, Peirithous and other named fighters, depicted battling the Centaurs on the shield.
And there was the strife of the Lapith spearmen gathered round the prince Caeneus and Dryas and Peirithous, with Hopleus, Exadius, Phalereus, and Prolochus, Mopsus the son of Ampyce of Titaresia, a scion of Ares, and Theseus, the son of Aegeus, like the deathless gods.
Iliad
Thessalian warrior people to whom Polypoites and Leonteus belong, defending the left gate.
but the Lapiths kept on fighting with might and main.
Little did they know that at the gates they should find two of the bravest chieftains, proud sons of the fighting Lapiths - the one, Polypoites, mighty son of Peirithoos, and the other Leonteus, peer of murderous Ares.
Odyssey
The people at whose feast the Centaur Eurytion ran amok, and who mutilated and expelled him.
It was wine that inflamed the Centaur Eurytion when he was staying with Peirithoos among the Lapiths.
Helen
People allied with Theseus in his war against the Centaurs.
And after this, allying himself with the Lapiths, he took the field against the Centaurs, those creatures of double nature, endowed with surpassing swiftness, strength, and daring, who were sacking, or about to sack, or were threatening, one city after another.