people
Lapiths
also: Lapithis
A Thessalian people whose drunken brawl with the Centaurs at a wedding became the type of wine-bred violence.
Reading notes
- The Odes §1.18 Lapiths
The Thessalian people whose wedding-feast the drunken Centaurs disrupted.
- The Odes §2.12 Lapiths
The savage Lapiths of the Centaur-battle, a mythic theme too violent for lyric.