- The
Lapiths (/ˈlæpɪθs/;
Ancient Gr****: Λαπίθαι, Lapithai, sing. Λαπίθης) were a
group of
legendary people in Gr**** mythology, who
lived in
Thessaly in...
- the day of Hippodamia's
marriage to Pirithous, who was the king of the
Lapithae and a son of Ixion. Theseus, a hero and
founder of cities, who happened...
-
ancestor of the Dorians, whom
Heracles had ****isted in war
against the
Lapithae,
adopted Hyllus and made over to him a
third part of his territory. After...
- when the
latter was hard
pressed in a
contest with the
Lapithae ...
Herakles defeated the
Lapithae and slew
their king Koronus; in
return for
which Aegimius...
-
under king
Aegimius and were
campaigning against the
numerically superior Lapithae. The
Dorians promised him 1⁄3 of
Doris (which they did not yet possess)...
-
called his son. Like the
other centaurs,
Chiron was
later expelled by the
Lapithae from his home; but
sacrifices were
offered to him
there by the Magnesians...
-
known for. The
battle took
place during the
wedding of the King of the
Lapithae, Pirithous, and his wife Hippodamia. Amycus'
involvement in this battle...
- Innocents",
winner of RA Gold Medal, 1847 "The
Combat of
Centaurs and
Lapithae" and "Figure with a Torch",
shown at the
Great Exhibition Morris Singer...
-
Though no one
heard him, all his
friends To give way, not to
fight [the
Lapithae]. He
cried to Nessus, "You need not run; you
shall be
saved till that Fine...
- as a
favourite haunt of Pan, and as the
abode of the
Centaurs and the
Lapithae.
Pausanias describes it as the most
fertile mountain in Thessaly, and well...
