people
Centaurs
also: Centaurea
Half-man, half-horse creatures whose fight with the Lapiths warns against drunkenness.
Reading notes
- The Odes §1.18 Centaurs' brawl with the Lapiths
The drunken battle at Pirithous' wedding, the type of wine-bred violence.
- The Odes §4.2 Centaurs
Among Pindar's themes: the gods' offspring 'by whom the Centaurs fell.'