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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.
The southern metope XII is also one of five where a Centaur attacks a Lapith. The woman, on the left, tries to free herself from the grip of the Centaur, but her feet already touch the ground only toes. [154] [155] She is sometimes identified with Hippodamia, kidnapped by Eurytion. Indeed, the composition of the metope is inversely symmetrical ...
Pelates, a Lapith from Pella in Macedonia who attended the nuptial of their king Pirithous and his bride Hippodamia. He participated in the celebrated Centauromachy , the battle between the Lapiths and the centaurs , where he slayed the centaur Amycus , son of Ophion , using a table-leg of maple wood.
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 ...
In Greek mythology, Prolochus (Ancient Greek: Πρόλοχόν) was one of the Lapiths who attended the nuptial of their king Pirithous and Hippodamia. He fought in the celebrated Centauromachy, the battle that erupted between the Lapiths and the centaurs after the latter attempted to rape the bride of the Lapith ruler. [1]
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 ...
Celadon, one of the Lapiths who attended the wedding of their King Pirithous and Hippodamia. [2] During the fight caused by the centaurs' attempt to rape the bride, he was killed by the centaur Amycus with a chandelier from a shrine according to a scholiast on Dionysius Periegetes. [3] Celadon, son of Miletus and Doie, and the sibling of Kaunos ...
The two figures on the left of the same slab, BM 521:3 and 4, repeat the pair of woman and centaur of BM 522:1 and 2. Here, however, the woman is not attacked by the centaur but runs past him. The centaur directs his attention to the hero on the next slab, BM 520:2, at whom he hurls a rock. The hero already grapples with one centaur, BM 520:1.