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Lapith
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Lap·ith  (lpth)
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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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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