Centaur
c. 1400 BCE – 400 CEattested
Thessaly, Greece
- Greek
Horse below, man above, and mostly used by the Greeks to think about drunkenness and the thin line between civilisation and appetite. Chiron, the exception, taught heroes.
Known for
- half horse, half man
- wild appetite
- Chiron the tutor
Dates are estimates. A great deal of what this atlas covers is only datable to within a century.