EditorialA hero (Theseus?) about to stab the centaur Euritus who had attempted to rape Hippodamia, wife of Pirithous. It provoked the famous war between the Lapiths and the centaurs described by Ovid in his Metamorphoses. Painting on marble excavated in Resina ...
EditorialMetope III from the Parthenon marbles depicting part of the battle between the Centaurs and the Lapiths. 5th century BC. Athens. British Museum. London. United Kingdom.
EditorialSouth metope XXX. Parthenon marbles depicting part of the batlle between the Centaurs and the Lapiths. 5th c. BC. Athens. British Museum. London. United Kingdom.
EditorialLapith Woman. Battle of the Lapiths and the Centaurs. Decoration of the Temple of Zeus in the Sanctuary of Olympia. 5th century B.C. Parian marble. West pediment. Dated in 460 B.C. Olympia Archaeological Museum. Greece.
EditorialCentaur kidnapping a young woman. Battle of the Lapiths and the Centaurs. Decoration of the Temple of Zeus in the Sanctuary of Olympia. 5th century B.C. Parian marble. West pediment. Dated in 460 B.C. Olympia Archaeological Museum. Greece.
EditorialPhoenician. Lycian Sarcophagus. 5th BC. Made out of Paros marble. Detail. Batlle of centaurs and Lapiths. Hero Caeneus. Royal Necropolis of Sidon. Lebanon. Istanbul Archaeological Museum. Turkey.
EditorialEurytion and Deidamia. Battle of the Lapiths and the Centaurs. Decoration of the Temple of Zeus in the Sanctuary of Olympia. 5th century B.C. Parian marble. West pediment. Dated in 460 B.C. Olympia Archaeological Museum. Greece.
EditorialThe battle between centaurs and Lapiths, a legendary tribe in Thassalia. When the Lapithian Peirithoos celebrated his wedding, the invited centaurs tried to rape the Lapithian women, but were beaten with the help of Apollo. Canvas, 54,3 x 78 cm R. F. 1...