Centaurs are thought of in many Greek myths as wild as untamed horses.

Centaurs are shown on a number of Pictish carved stones from north-east Scotland, erected in the 8th – 9th centuries AD ( e. g., at Meigle, Perthshire ).

Ixion made love to her, which resulted in the birth of Centaurus, who mated with some Magnesian mares on Mount Pelion and thus engendered the race of Centaurs ( who are called the Ixionidae from their descent ).

From the union of Ixion and the false-Hera cloud came Centauros, who mated with the Magnesian mares on Mount Pelion, Pindar told, engendering the race of Centaurs, who are called the Ixionidae from their descent.

The best-known legend with which the Lapiths are connected is their battle with the Centaurs at the wedding feast of Pirithous, the Centauromachy.

Centaurs are an unstable orbital class of minor planets that behave with characteristics of both asteroids and comets.

Centaurs ' orbits are characterised by a wide range of eccentricity, from highly eccentric ( Pholus, Asbolus, Amicus, Nessus ) to more circular ( Chariklo and the Saturn-crossers: Thereus, Okyrhoe ).

Centaurs are dark in colour, because their icy surfaces have darkened after long exposure to solar radiation and the solar wind.

Centaurs with a perihelion less than 6. 6AU are very strongly influenced by Jupiter and for classification purposes are considered to have a perihelion under the control of Jupiter.

" Centaurs and merpeople are said to have rejected " being " status in favour of " beast " status, as have leprechauns.

( Atlas Vs are not generally referred to as " Atlas Centaurs " and do not share the AC-serial numbers of the original Atlas Centaurs that had the Rocketdyne-powered 1st stages.

Warlock units are as follows in ascending order of strength: Centaurs, Gargoyles, Griffins, Minotaurs, Hydras, and Dragons.

Comparable themes from Classical Antiquity are the Battle of the Lapiths and Centaurs and the theme of Amazonomachy, the battle of Theseus with the Amazons.

They inhabit the vast african-savanna-like grassland known as the shaar, waging war with the Loxos, Thri-Kreen and Centaurs which also dwell there.

* November 1 – 2060 Chiron, first of the outer solar system asteroids known as Centaurs, is discovered by Charlie Kowal.

However, using an extended definition of Centaurs, as the objects on unstable orbits with the perihelion inside the orbit of Neptune, the first binary centaur, 42355 Typhon ( previously known as ), was identified in 2006.

Other inhabitants of the Narnian world based on known mythological or folkloric creatures include Boggles, Centaurs, Cruels, Dragons, Dryads, Earthmen ( the Narnian version of gnomes ), Efreets, Ettins, Fauns, Giants, Ghouls, Griffins, Hags, Hamadryads, Horrors, Incubi, Maenads, Merpeople, Minotaurs, Monopods, Naiads, Ogres, Orknies ( perhaps from Old English orcneas " walking dead "), Winged Horses, People of the Toadstools, Phoenix, Satyrs, Sea Peoples ( a version of the merpeople ), Sea serpents, Sylvans, Spectres, Sprites, Star People, Trolls, Unicorns, Werewolves, Wooses, and Wraiths.

* 2060 Chiron, first of the outer solar system asteroids known as Centaurs, discovered by Charlie Kowal.

Then Virgil again returns to grapevines, recalling the myth of the battle of the Lapiths and Centaurs in a passage known as the Vituperation of Vines.

The western pediment has Apollo as the central figure, " majestic " and " remote ", presiding over a battle of Lapiths and Centaurs, in strong contrast to that of the eastern pediment for its depiction of violent action, and described by D. E. Strong as the " most powerful piece of illustration " for a hundred years.

It decreased in popularity in Gothic art, but revived in the larger works of the Renaissance, when artists took inspiration for their " Massacres " from Roman reliefs of the battle of the Lapiths and Centaurs to the extent that they showed the figures heroically nude.

Ixion failed in restraining his lust for Hera, thus fathering the Centaurs.

He had competed at the funeral-games for Jason's father and was among the Lapiths who fought the Centaurs.

Most Centaurs launched on Atlas have excess propellants, ranging from hundreds to thousands of pounds, which could be used for " rideshare " experiments flown as secondary payloads conducted after separation of the primary spacecraft.

He was involved in the hunt for the Calydonian Boar and fought with the Lapiths against the Centaurs.

The Battle of the Lapiths and Centaurs was a familiar symposium theme for the vase-painters.

She claimed the offspring of the early humans and animals on earth were " half human forms " which had existed for millions of years such as Centaurs, satyrs and nymphs.

However, Goro is able to survive, being saved from death by Shao Kahn himself, with the promise of returning the Shokans to their former glory and the banishment of the Centaurs in exchange for his allegiance.

When Heracles came to visit the centaur Pholus, Pholus opened a jug of wine for him which belonged to all the Centaurs ; Asbolus saw Pholus do this and brought the other Centaurs running.

Atlas Centaurs with a Rocketdyne-powered 1st stage were used for 167 launches between 1962 and 2004 by which time they had been superseded by Atlas Vs with a new 1st stage powered by a much more powerful Russian RD-180 engine.

Later on they had an antropomorphic appearance: usually had birds ’ claws for feet, appear like women with a heads or lower body of she-goats, half human / half bitch or half mare ( like Centaurs ), had only one eye ( like Cyclops ), had large breasts with stone nipples ( pieces of Belemnitida found on ground were called Laumės nipples ).

The Centaurs started their season under coach Len Roitman, who would step down amid poor results to focus on his role as general manager, making way for former Cosmos star midfielder, Yugoslavian Vladislav Bogicevic.

The Detroit Museum of Art has a terracotta sketch for a Hercules Vanquishing Two Centaurs.

The Centaurs had been invited, but, unused to wine, their wild nature came to the fore.

When Shinnok and his legion were defeated and Edenia was free once more, Goro and the Shokan race decided to ally themselves with the Edenians, agreeing to sign a peace treaty with the Centaurs as a condition of their new partnership.

The creatures called Thūn by the Tsurani-and Lasura (" People ") in their own language-are similar to Centaurs, which the exception that their upper half is lizard-like rather than human.

The Centaurs played their games at Downing Stadium on Randall's Island, the former home of the New York Cosmos.

The goddess held a lance whose gilt tip could be seen as a reflection by crews on ships rounding Cape Sounion, and a giant shield on the left side, decorated by Mys with images of the fight between the Centaurs and the Lapiths.

Like the Titanomachy, the defeat of the Titans by the Olympian gods, the contests with the Centaurs typify the struggle between civilization and barbarism.

This unusual association of the Minotaur with Centaurs, not made in any Classical source, is shown visually in William Blake's rendering of the Minotaur ( illustration ) as a kind of taurine centaur himself.

* One of the Centaurs who Heracles fought with.

The striking mythic image of this hero is that, indomitable through his more-than-human power, his enemies the Centaurs resorted to driving him into the ground with timbers.

The genealogies make them a kindred people with the Centaurs: in one version, Lapithes ( Λαπίθης ) and Centaurus ( Κένταυρος ) were said to be twin sons of the god Apollo and the nymph Stilbe, daughter of the river god Peneus.

Lapithes was a valiant warrior, but Centaurus was a deformed being who later mated with mares, from whom the half-man, half-horse Centaurs sprang.

Battle of Centaurs and Lapiths, by Piero di Cosimo ( notice the female centaur with a male centaur in the foreground ).

In the Centaur battle, Caeneus proved invulnerable, until the Centaurs simply crushed him with rocks and trunks of trees.

As Greek myth became more mediated through philosophy, the battle between Lapiths and Centaurs took on aspects of the interior struggle between civilized and wild behavior, made concrete in the Lapiths ' understanding of the right usage of god-given wine, which must be tempered with water and drunk not to excess.

Battles between Lapiths and Centaurs were depicted in the sculptured friezes on the Parthenon, recalling Athenian Theseus ' treaty of mutual admiration with Pirithous the Lapith, leader of the Magnetes, and on Zeus ' temple at Olympia ( Pausanias, v. 10. 8 ).

Centaurs with measured diameters listed as possible dwarf planets according to Mike Brown's website include 10199 Chariklo, 2060 Chiron, and 54598 Bienor.

Centaurs will thus ultimately collide with the Sun or a planet or else they may be ejected into interstellar space after a close approach to one of the planets, particularly Jupiter.

J. E. Harrison and others identify them with the Satyri ( Satyrs ), the attendants and companions of Dionysus in his revels, and also with the Centaurs.

Built at the innermost point of the Pagasetic Gulf and at the foot of Mount Pilio or Pelion ( the land of the Centaurs ), Volos is the third of Greece's major commercial ports, with traffic by ferry and hydrofoil to the nearby Sporades Islands, which include Skiathos, Skopelos and Alonissos.