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Centaur carrying off a nymph (1892) by Laurent Marqueste (Tuileries Garden, Paris) Jerome's version of the Life of St Anthony the Great , written by Athanasius of Alexandria about the hermit monk of Egypt, was widely disseminated in the Middle Ages; it relates Anthony's encounter with a centaur who challenged the saint, but was forced to admit ...
In the manga series Bleach (and the anime based on it), when the character Nelliel Tu Odelschwanck enters her released form, she becomes a powerful ibex-type centaur. The manga series A Centaur's Life's main character is a centaur in a fantastically-set but otherwise everyday world. The manga series Yu-Gi-Oh!
In planetary astronomy, a centaur is a small Solar System body that orbits the Sun between Jupiter and Neptune and crosses the orbits of one or more of the giant planets. . Centaurs generally have unstable orbits because of this; almost all their orbits have dynamic lifetimes of only a few million years, [1] but there is one known centaur, 514107 Kaʻepaokaʻawela, which may be in a stable ...
Chiron was not involved in the fight but came out to try to stop it. The immortal Chiron could not die from his wound and thus would be doomed to live in great pain forever. He cried to Zeus to give him relief and end his life. Zeus took pity on the centaur and let him die. To honour him, Zeus gave Chiron a place amongst the stars.
Heracles accidentally wounded the centaur and placed him in the sky after his death. Alpha Centauri marks the right front hoof of the Centaur. [22] The common name Rigil Kentaurus is a Latinisation of the Arabic translation رجل القنطورس Rijl al-Qinṭūrus, meaning "the Foot of the Centaur".
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In the "Imagines", the rhetorician Philostratus the Elder gives a brief description of the Centaurides: . How beautiful the Centaurides are, even where they are horses; for some grow out of white mares, others are attached to chestnut mares, and the coats of others are dappled, but they glisten like those of horses that are well cared for.
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