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Lap·ith (l

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n. Greek Mythology

One of a Thessalian tribe who at the disastrous wedding of their king defeated the drunken centaurs.

Lapith [ˈlæpɪθ]

n pl Lapithae [ˈlæpɪˌθiː], Lapiths

(Myth & Legend / Classical Myth & Legend) Greek myth a member of a people in Thessaly who at the wedding of their king, Pirithoüs, fought the drunken centaurs

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Pirithoüs	Another king, Ixion of the Lapiths, met an even more gruesome fate for bragging of his supposed liaison with Hera (the offspring of whom were the centaurs, half human and half horse): He was bound to a fiery wheel, which turned about forever. Hellenic damnation and other afterlives. (Classical Blather) by Humez, Nick / Verbatim 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 Man, half-bestial at first, as in The Battle between Lapiths and Centaurs in the London National Gallery, struggles from the light of physical fire into that of intellectual fire bestowed by Prometheus in the final panel of the series, now in the Strasbourg Musee des Beaux-Arts. Picture galleries outside London: The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford by Bruce, Donald / Contemporary Review	Lapidarious lapidarist lapidary Lapidary style Lapidary's lathe lapidate lapidation lapidator Lapideous Lapidescence Lapidescent lapidicolous Lapidific lapidification lapidify lapidist Lapillation Lapilli lapillus lapin lapis Lapis calaminaris Lapis infernalis lapis lazuli Lapith Lapiths Laplace Laplace operator Laplace Pierre Simon de Laplace's Coefficients Lapland Laplander Laplandish Lapling Laportea Laportea canadensis Lapp Lappaceous Lapper lappet lappet caterpillar lappet moth Lappic lapping Lapping engine Lappish Lappland Lapplander Lapponian Lapps Lappula	lapis lapis lapis lapis lapis Lapis armenius Lapis armenius Lapis armenus Lapis calaminaris Lapis infernalis lapis lazuli lapis lazuli lapis lazuli lapis lazuli Lapis Ollaris Lapis Ollaris Lapis philosophorum Lapis philosophorum Lapis-lazuli Lapis-lazuli Lapislazuli Lapislazuli Lapita Lapita Culture Lapith Lapitha Lapithae Lapithai Lapíthai Lapithes Lapiths Lapithus Lapitskii, Iosif Lapitskii, Iosif Mikhailovich LAPJ LAPK LAPL Laplace Laplace Laplace Azimuth Laplace domain Laplace equation Laplace Invariant Plane Laplace irrotational motion Laplace law Laplace Nebular Hypothesis Laplace operator Laplace operator Laplace Pierre Simon de Laplace Point Laplace Theorem Laplace transform Laplace transform Laplace Transformation Laplace transformations Laplace transforms Laplace's Coefficients Laplace's differential equation Laplace's differential equation

Another king, Ixion of the Lapiths, met an even more gruesome fate for bragging of his supposed liaison with Hera (the offspring of whom were the centaurs, half human and half horse): He was bound to a fiery wheel, which turned about forever.

Hellenic damnation and other afterlives. (Classical Blather) by Humez, Nick / Verbatim

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

Man, half-bestial at first, as in The Battle between Lapiths and Centaurs in the London National Gallery, struggles from the light of physical fire into that of intellectual fire bestowed by Prometheus in the final panel of the series, now in the Strasbourg Musee des Beaux-Arts.

Picture galleries outside London: The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford by Bruce, Donald / Contemporary Review

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