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- Centaurs - Mythopedia
Centaurs were hybrid creatures, human from the waist up but with the body and legs of a horse They lived an untamed and brutal existence in the forests and mountains of Greece, where they battled many famous Greek heroes
- Nessus – Mythopedia
During Heracles’ stay, the other Centaurs caught a whiff of the wine he was drinking and went wild They attacked the hero but were beaten back, suffering heavy losses Again the Centaurs were chased away from their home, scattering to various locations; Nessus traveled to the River Evenus in Aetolia, where he ended up working as a ferryman
- Chiron - Mythopedia
Chiron, like the other Centaurs, was undeniably strong But unlike his brutish brethren, who were notorious for their violent and lustful behavior, Chiron was famously wise and civilized Homer described him as “the most righteous of the Centaurs,” while Pindar wrote that his “mind was friendly to men ” Chiron’s knowledge was vast
- Satyrs and Silens – Mythopedia
They were usually regarded as woodland creatures (similar to Maenads, nymphs, and Centaurs) Nymphs and Satyr by William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1873) Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Public Domain Satyrs and silens were typically imagined with the ears, tail, and occasionally legs and coat of a horse (or goat)
- Amazons – Mythopedia
Centaurs and Amazons: Women and the Pre-History of the Great Chain of Being Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1991 Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1991 Gantz, Timothy
- Heracles (Play) – Mythopedia
[The Centaurs] The Ceryneian Hind The Mares of Diomedes [Cycnus] The Apples of the Hesperides [Pacifying the sea] [Holding up the heavens] The Amazons The Hydra Geryon Cerberus Several of these labors (indicated by square brackets in the list above) are not mentioned by any other sources, or are not traditionally counted among the Twelve
- Metamorphoses: Book 12 (Full Text) - Mythopedia
The centaurs saw, inrag’d, th’ unhop’d success; And rushing on in crowds, together press; At him, and him alone, their darts they threw: Repuls’d they from his fated body flew Amaz’d they stood; ’till Monichus began, O shame, a nation conquer’d by a man! A woman-man! yet more a man is he, Than all our race; and what he was, are we
- Atalanta – Mythopedia
As a young woman, she made a vow to the goddess Artemis that she would remain a virgin When two centaurs, Hylaeus and Rhoecus, tried to force themselves upon her, she killed them using her bow Adventures As an adult, Atalanta participated in several famous exploits alongside the male heroes of her time
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