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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 ...
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 ...
Two Centaurs pound Caeneus into the ground with tree trunks; bronze relief from Olympia, Archaeological Museum of Olympia BE 11a (mid–late seventh century BC) [1] In Greek mythology, Caeneus or Kaineus (Ancient Greek: Καινεύς, romanized: Kaineús) was a Lapith hero, ruler of Thessaly, and the father of the Argonaut Coronus.
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
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 ...
Pirithous and Hippodamia receiving the centaurs at his wedding. Antique fresco from Pompeii. "Pirithous' Kampf um Helena" by Joseph Echteler and Richard Brend'amour. Pirithous (/ ˌ p aɪ ˈ r ɪ θ oʊ. ə s /; Ancient Greek: Πειρίθοος or Πειρίθους, derived from περιθεῖν, perithein, 'to run around' [citation needed]; also transliterated as Perithous), in Greek ...
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 ...