10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «LAPITHAE»
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The Mythology of Greece and Rome
The Lapithae and the Centaurs. — We shall commence with the Thessalian
legend of the Lapithae and Centaurs, on account of its great antiquity and its
importance in sculpture. Our most ancient authority here is Homer. The hoary
Nestor on ...
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The mythology of Greece and Rome, with special reference to ...
We shall commence with the Thessalian legend of the Lapithae and Centaurs, on
account of its great antiquity and its importance in sculpture. Our most ancient
authority here is Homer. The hoary Nestor on one occasion boasts of having, ...
Otto Seemann, George Henry Bianchi, 1877
There are fifteen metopes, the subject of which is the battles between the
Centaurs and the Lapithae. The Centaurs are poetical beings, of Thessalian
origin, composed of a man and a horse. The natives of Thessaly, being fond of
hunting the ...
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A Classical Dictionary, Containing a Copious Account of All ...
LAPlTHES, a son of Apollo, by Stilbe. He was brother to Centaurus, and married
Orsinome, daughter of Euronymus, by whom he had Phorbas and Periphas. The
name of Lapithae was given to the numerous children of Phorbas and Periphas,
...
5
The first book of the Iliad, tr. into fourteen-syllable ...
Centaurs, a savage and warlike race inhabiting Mount Pelion in Thessaly, who
were destroyed in a war with the Lapithae. A later belief converted them into
monsters, half-man and half-horse ChrySe, a city on the coast of the Troad,
having a ...
6
The Works of Hesiod, Callimachus, and Theognis
And on it was wrought the battle of the warrior Lapithae l around Caeneus the
king and Dryas, and Pirithous, Hopleus, Exadius, Phalerus, and Prolochus,
Mopsus,2 son of Ampyx of Titaressa, a branch of Mars, and Theseus, son of
yEgeus, like ...
Hesiod, Callimachus, James Davies, 1856
7
Mythology Greek and Roman, tr. by mrs. A.W. Hall
One of the Centaurs tore the lighted sconce from the ceiling, and swinging it high
in the air, directed it full at one of the Lapithae, and shattered his head. In
revenge, one of the Lapithae, broke a leg from off the table, and with two fierce
blows ...
Friedrich August Nösselt, 1885
8
The royal dictionary-cyclopædia, for universal reference, ...
The origin of their battle with the Centaurs, who inhabited the same country with
themselves, was a quarrel at the marriage of Pirithous, king of the Lapithae, with
Hippodamia, where the Centaurs, intoxicated with wine, offered violence to the ...
In the present case, however, I must say that the traditions which connect the
Lapithae with Theseus and Attica (see Suidas, 1rept0oi8au., and Steph. Byz. ¢t)
taf8at) give to that people at least a decidedly historical aspect. Whether the
Centaurs ...
Homer, John Stuart Blackie, 1866
10
Gods and Heroes of Ancient Greece
princess from the race of the Lapithae, and invited Theseus to the wedding. The
Lapithae, in whose country the feast was held, were a well—known people of
Thessaly, mountain-folk, resembling animals rather than men, the first mortals to
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