To that point, some scholars argue that the centaur myth may be based on the first mountain riders in the Thessaly region, pre-Trojan war tribes believed to be named Centaur and Lapith.

This list will cover the strongest animals from Greek mythology and will touch on all the heavy hitters, like the Sphinx, Cyclops, Centaur, and everything in between. Think you know everything ...

The Education of Achilles, by Bénigne Gagneraux (1785). Source: Bénigne Gagneraux on Wikimedia Commons/public domain In the Iliad, Homer calls Chiron the "wisest and justest of all the centaurs ...