Lapiths

One series of sculptures in the British Museum, which I often looked at during my year in the old Reading Room of the British Museum in 1973-74, depicts the battle between the Centaurs and the Lapiths, which erupted when the half-civilized Centaurs got drunk and attempted to abduct the women of their hosts.

Night (not) in the Parthenon Museum 2 2009

Bouguereau, "The Battle of the Lapiths and the Centaurs" from 1852 at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, link.

En Loge Competition James Gurney 2009

Bouguereau, "The Battle of the Lapiths and the Centaurs" from 1852 at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, link.

Archive 2009-04-01 James Gurney 2009

Through a pair of bronze doors bearing scenes of Lapiths and centaurs in bas-relief, Octavian entered a hall that had his study to one side and the dining room to the other.

Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

Through a pair of bronze doors bearing scenes of Lapiths and centaurs in bas-relief, Octavian entered a hall that had his study to one side and the dining room to the other.

Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

'Here on the west pediment is the battle between the Centaurs and Lapiths at the wedding of Pinthous -'

See Delphi and Die Davis, Lindsey 2005

Regarding mortality, certainly the opponents of the Lapiths and Heracles were mortal; on the other hand, Sophocles and Apollodorus (in re: Prometheus unbinding) descrive Cheiron as immortal, squaring with his separate birth; and on yet another hand, Pindar (Pythian 3) calls Cheiron dead (Ovid alludes to his wounding and death, but doesn't say how).

The Origins of Centaurs Gregory Feeley 2005

Gantz suggests possibly the form of Cheiron was transferred to the beasts who fought the Lapiths, and then an origin story was created for them.

The Origins of Centaurs Gregory Feeley 2005

Hence, there appeared a tendency to make mythical events express allegorically particular historical events; mythical wars of Greeks with Amazons, or of Lapiths against Cen - taurs, were represented instead of the historical strug - gle of the Athenians against the Persians.

ICONOGRAPHY JAN BIA��OSTOCKI 1968

There on the west gable stood Apollo, stern and beautiful among the Lapiths, shedding victory from his lifted arm.

The Mask of Apollo Renault, Mary, 1905-1983 1966