Centaurs

Centaur

          The centaur is a horse body with a human torso sprouting from the horse's neck. Centaurs appear in greek mythology. Some centaurs were well learned and taught some great heroes while others were drunk and vicious warriors. The first centaurs were born from Ixion and Nephele. They lived in Thessaly near Eastern Greece.

          Most centaurs were vicious and described as scary forces of nature. The personality of the average centaur was ungentle and mean. They were vey quick and speedy in battle and were excellent with a bow and arrow. The weakness of a centaur is they follwed Dionysus, the God of Wine, so they loved to get drunk and could be defeated easily if so.

          Perhaps the most famous centaur of all was Chiron, a centaur who tutored many Greek Mythology heroes.  He was the gentlest, wise and most well learned centaur of them all.  He tutored heroes such as Aesculapius and Hercules.  When Chiron died, Zues placed his picture in the night sky by stars and gave him the constellation Sagittarius.
          Centaurs appear in 21st century media in the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series of books.  Also in the movie, Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone when Harry and his friends come along a group of centaurs in the forest.  Centaurs also appear in the movie, The Chronicles of Narnia.  As you can see centaurs were vicious beasts except for the exception of Chiron, were a horse body and a human torso and lived in Thessaly.