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ISBN. 978-0394418810. The Centaur is a novel by John Updike, published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1963. It won the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction. Portions of the novel first appeared in Esquire and The New Yorker. [1][2] The French translation of the novel won the Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger (Best Foreign Book Prize).
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- Centaurs in Greek Mythology
- Appearance and Reputation
- Centauromachy
- Cheiron and Pholos
- Nessos and Herakles
- Sources and Further Reading
The centaur race (Kentauroi or Hippokentauroi in Greek) was created out of Zeus' anger. A man named Ixion lived on Mt. Pelion and wanted to marry Dia, the daughter of Deioneous, and promised to give her father a large bride price. Instead, Ixion built a large pit filled with blazing coals to catch his father-in-law and kill him when he came to coll...
The earliest depictions of centaurs had six legs—a horse body with an entire man attached to the front. Later, centaurs were illustrated with four horse legs and a man's torso and head springing from where the horse's head and neck would be. Almost all of the centaurs were mindlessly sexually and physically violent, half-bestial with little access ...
The homeland of the centaurs was in the wooded areas of Mount Pelion, where they lived side by side with nymphs and satyrs; but they were ejected from that location at the end of the wars with their kinsmen the Lapith. The tale is that Peirithoos, a faithful companion of the Greek hero Theseusand a chieftain of the Lapith, threw a feast on his marr...
Cheiron (or Chiron) was a wise centaur who was born immortal, married Chariklo and had children, and accumulated wisdom and knowledge and a fondness for humans. He was said to have been the son of the titan Kronos, who turned himself into a horse to seduce the Oceanid nymph Phillyrea. Cheiron was the tutor of several of the heroes of Greek history,...
Nessos (or Nessus), on the other hand, was the more typically behaved centaur whose job was to ferry people across the river Euenos. After his labors were ended, Herakles married Deineira and lived with her father the King of Calydon until he killed a page of royal blood. Herakles was forced to flee home to Thessaly, and he and his wife Deianeira r...
Hard, Robin. "The Routledge Handbook of Greek Mythology. London: Routledge, 2003.Hansen, William. "Classical Mythology: A Guide to the Mythical World of the Greeks and Romans." Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.Leeming, David. "The Oxford Companion to World Mythology." Oxford UK: Oxford University Press, 2005. Print.Scobie, Alex. "The Origins of 'Centaurs'." Folklore 89.2 (1978): 142–47.The Centaur is a modern retelling of the legend of Chiron, the noblest and wisest of the centaurs, who, painfully wounded yet unable to die, gave up his immortality on behalf of Prometheus. In the retelling, Olympus becomes small-town Olinger High School; Chiron is George Caldwell, a science teacher there; and Prometheus is Caldwell’s fifteen-year-old son, Peter.
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The Centaur: A Novel. Paperback – Aug. 27 1996. The Centaur is a modern retelling of the legend of Chiron, the noblest and wisest of the centaurs, who, painfully wounded yet unable to die, gave up his immortality on behalf of Prometheus. In the retelling, Olympus becomes small-town Olinger High School; Chiron is George Caldwell, a science ...
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Oct 11, 2024 · Centaur, in Greek mythology, a race of creatures, part horse and part man, dwelling in the mountains of Thessaly and Arcadia. Traditionally they were the offspring of Ixion , king of the neighbouring Lapiths , and were best known for their fight ( centauromachy ) with the Lapiths, which resulted from their attempt to carry off the bride of Pirithous , son and successor of Ixion.
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Centaur carrying off a nymph (1892) by Laurent Marqueste (Tuileries Garden, Paris) Jerome's version of the Life of St Anthony the Great , written by Athanasius of Alexandria about the hermit monk of Egypt, was widely disseminated in the Middle Ages; it relates Anthony's encounter with a centaur who challenged the saint, but was forced to admit that the old gods had been overthrown.
