Source: Bénigne Gagneraux on Wikimedia Commons/public domain In the Iliad, Homer calls Chiron the "wisest and justest of all the centaurs." Fated to be overthrown by one of his children ...

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.