This sculpture from the Parthenon shows a Centaur rearing triumphantly over a dying human Lapith. This focus on human suffering epitomises the intense humanism of Greek art. The sculpture also ...

"For me the Parthenon sculptures reveal to us the tensions ... We want to live in Greek World, and Athenian World." Centaur World for the Athenians would have meant not just the Persian Empire ...

The ancient Greek poet, Hesiod, wrote about centaurs around 700 BC ... the scientific origins of legends isn't a new idea, notes art professor Beauvais Lyons of the University of Tennessee ...

The ancient Greek poets tell us that Achilles ... The hero of the Trojan War, Achilles was trained in the art of healing wounds by the centaur Chiron.” And, indeed, when Eurypylus asks Patroclus ...

Dilan Polat, 20, an art student who was sketching a centaur’s muscled torso from one of the panels, said she felt “really lucky to be able to draw actual Greek sculptures.” But, she added ...

Parthenon sculpture: Centaur and Lapith (made around 440 BC ... was the first time they had ever been able to look closely at Greek sculpture, and they were overwhelmed and inspired by the ...