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ID: 901001702
Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ia/901001702
Record Type: Event/Narrative

Battle of Lapiths and Centaurs (Greco-Roman narrative)

Note: Fight of the centaurs when they were guests at the wedding of the Lapiths. The centaurs attempted to carry off the bride of Pirithous, son and successor of Ixion. They lost the battle and were driven from Mount Pelion. In later Greek times they were often represented drawing the chariot of the wine god Dionysus or bound and ridden by Eros, the god of love, in allusion to their drunken and amorous habits.

Names:
Battle of Lapiths and Centaurs (Greco-Roman narrative) (preferred,English-P,D,P)
Battle of Centaurs and Lapiths (Greco-Roman narrative) (English,U)
Battle of the Lapithae and the Centaurs (Greco-Roman narrative) (English,U)
Centauromachy (Greco-Roman narrative) (English)

Hierarchical Position:
Legend, Religion, Mythology (P)
....<Greek iconography> (P)
........<Greek narratives> (P)
............Battle of Lapiths and Centaurs (Greco-Roman narrative) (I)
Related Iconography:
actor is .... Centaurs
..........(Legend, Religion, Mythology, Greek iconography, Greek characters, Centaurs (Greco-Roman beings)) [901002114]
actor is .... Lapiths
..........(Legend, Religion, Mythology, Greek iconography, Greek characters, Lapiths (Greco-Roman people)) [901002115]

Other Relationships:
role/characteristic is .... narratives (literary works)
.....(genres for literature, genres in literature and performing arts, concepts in the arts and humanities, Associated Concepts (hierarchy name)) (AAT)
topic is .... battle
.....(armed conflicts, events (activities), Events (hierarchy name)) (AAT)
actor is .... centaurs
.....(legendary beings, Animalia (kingdom), Eukaryota (domain), living organisms (entities), Living Organisms (hierarchy name)) (AAT)

Sources:
Battle of Lapiths and Centaurs (Greco-Roman narrative)
................Metropolitan Museum of Art [online] (2001-)
................Iconclass Illustrated Edition (2022-) accessed 7 September 2018
................J. Paul Getty Museum, collections online (2000-) accessed 7 September 2018
Battle of Centaurs and Lapiths (Greco-Roman narrative)
................Hansen, Handbook of Classical Mythology (2004) 133
Battle of the Lapithae and the Centaurs (Greco-Roman narrative)
................J. Paul Getty Museum, collections online (2000-)
Centauromachy (Greco-Roman narrative)
................Hansen, Handbook of Classical Mythology (2004)
Iconography Record Sources:
................ Iconclass Illustrated Edition (2022-) 92L71411 fight of Lapiths and centaurs at the wedding of Pirithous and Hippodamia
................ J. Paul Getty Museum, collections online (2000-) http://www.getty.edu/art/collection/objects/11876/
................ Metropolitan Museum of Art [online] (2001-) https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/400997
................ Source for image https://uploads5.wikiart.org/images/michelangelo/battle-of-the-lapiths-and-centaurs-1510.jpg!Large.jpg
................ Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-) accessed 7 September 2018

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