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  2. Metopes of the Parthenon - Wikipedia

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    On the metope south XXX, Lapith on the right is kneeling. The Centaur plunges the hooves of the front legs into the thighs. The movement is still visible to the right limbs; the left limbs were broken. [172] The metope south XXXI is also carved in a style a little old (severe) for this second half of the fifth century BC.

  3. Lapiths - Wikipedia

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    Metope from the Elgin Marbles depicting a Centaur and a Lapith fighting.. The Lapiths (/ ˈ l æ p ɪ θ s /; Ancient Greek: Λαπίθαι, Lapithai, sing. Λαπίθης) were a group of legendary people in Greek mythology, who lived in Thessaly in the valley of the Pineios [1] and on the mountain Pelion.

  4. Elgin Marbles - Wikipedia

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    Parthenon Selene Horse Metope from the Elgin Marbles depicting a Centaur and a Lapith fighting. In November 1798, the Earl of Elgin was appointed as "Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of His Britannic Majesty to the Sublime Porte of Selim III, Sultan of Turkey" (Greece was then part of the Ottoman Empire). Before his ...

  5. Metope - Wikipedia

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    Metope from the Parthenon marbles depicting part of the battle between the Centaurs and the Lapiths; 442–438 BC; marble; height: 1.06 m; British Museum (London) A metope ( / ˈ m ɛ t ə p i / ; Ancient Greek : μετόπη ) is a rectangular architectural element of the Doric order , filling the space between triglyphs in a frieze [ 1 ] [ 2 ...

  6. Polyphemus (Argonaut) - Wikipedia

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    Polyphemus, as a Lapith, was remembered for having fought against the Centaurs in the days of his youth. [5] In Iliad, Nestor numbers "the godlike Polyphemus" among an earlier generation of heroes of his youth, "the strongest men that Earth has bred, the strongest men against the strongest enemies, a savage mountain-dwelling tribe (i.e. centaur) whom they utterly destroyed."

  7. List of films based on classical mythology - Wikipedia

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    another Indian film in Hindi by Sultan. It follows the story of Hercules' son and his fight with a dragon. [3] Tarzan Aur Hercules: 1964 Indian Hindi-language action film by Mahmood, featuring a character based on Hercules who helps Tarzan win a princess. [4] [2] Sheba and Hercules: 1967 Indian Hindi-language action film by B. S. Chowdhary.

  8. Bassae Frieze - Wikipedia

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    The rocky landscape, the burial of Kaineus, centaurs fighting with tree limbs or rocks, and men with armour and weapons are all elements of a pitched battle between Lapiths and centaurs. However, four Greeks are dressed only in mantles, fight bare handed and are noticeably placed at the principal structural points: on the first slab, BM 526:2 ...

  9. Bassae - Wikipedia

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    Inside, however, there was a continuous Ionic frieze showing Athenians in battle with Amazons and the Lapiths engaged in battle with Centaurs. [15] This frieze's metopes were removed by Cockerell and taken to the British Museum in 1815 (they are still to be seen in the British Museum's Gallery 16, near the Elgin Marbles [15]).