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Lapiths

In Greek mythology, a people of the mountains of Thessaly, northern Greece, often represented in Greek art fighting with their neighbours, the centaurs (creatures half man, half horse), at the wedding of their king, Pirithous.

After the creatures tried to abduct the bride, Hippodamia, and other female guests, the Lapiths, led by the hero Theseus, ousted them from their home on Mount Pelion and drove them to Pindus on the borders of Epirus.

In the Parthenon, Athens, the battle was portrayed on some of the metopes (slabs forming part of a Doric frieze).
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Above the columns are epistyles nine and a half feet long and four feet high, on which you see superbly carved sculptures of the Thessalian battle of the Centaurs and Lapiths, while on the frieze placed high on the inner walls about two cubits from the top, that great artist Phidias has magnificently represented the victories of Athens in the time of Pericles, each frieze being about the height of a ten-year-old boy.
Donatello's Gattamelata and its humanist audience * by Bergstein, Mary / Renaissance Quarterly
Not many years after Lorenzo wrote Ambra, the young Michelangelo, working in the circle of Lorenzo and under the spell of the Ovidian Poliziano, began a sculpture of the Battle of the Lapiths and Centaurs, an Ovidian subject said to have been suggested to him by Poliziano [ILLUSTRATION FOR FIGURE 3 OMITTED].
As in Ovid, so in Renaissance art by Barolsky, Paul / Renaissance Quarterly
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