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Os Centauros são seres míticos da mitologia grega cujo corpo é formado por parte de um homem - que corresponde ao tronco, braços e cabeça - e o restante do corpo de um cavalo. Eles representam o instinto animal em junção com a inteligência humana, metáfora das ações dos homens numa situação de perda de controle.
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. The French translation of the novel won the Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger (Best Foreign Book Prize).
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.
1 de mai. de 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.
5 de out. de 2012 · A Centaur was a creature from Greek mythology which was half-man and half-horse. The head, arms and torso of a centaur were human and joined at the waist to the body and legs of a horse. Centaurs represented barbarism and unbridled chaos and were frequently represented in Greek architectural sculpture and pottery decoration.
Origem do mito. A teoria mais comum sustenta que a ideia de centauros veio da primeira reação de uma cultura não-equitação, como no mundo minoico do Egeu, aos nômades que foram montados em cavalos. A teoria sugere que tais cavaleiros apareceriam como meio homem, meio animal.
4 de set. de 2019 · By. K. Kris Hirst. Updated on September 04, 2019. In Greek and Roman mythology, a centaur is a member of a race of people who are half man and half horse.
