However, the mythology behind the birth of the centaur is a bit more colorful. Some suggest the centaurs came to be through jealousy and deceit. Ixion, the king of the Lapiths of Thessaly (an area ...

Centaurs were mythical creatures that had human upper bodies and horse lower bodies. In Greek mythology, centaurs symbolized the duality between the civilized and untamed aspects of human nature.