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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.
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
A centaur struggling with a Lapith on a metope from the Parthenon, in the British Museum (London) Lapith fighting a centaur on a metope from the Parthenon, in the British Museum Architrave with sculpted metope showing sun god Helios in a quadriga, from the Temple of Athena at Troy , circa 300–280 BC
The battle depicted takes place between the Lapiths and the Centaurs at the wedding feast of Pirithous. [1] Pirithous, king of the Lapiths, had long clashed with the neighboring Centaurs. To mark his good intentions Pirithous invited the Centaurs to his wedding to Hippodamia (part of whose name, "Hippo," Ιππο , literally translates as ...
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