Fabulous creatures in Greek mythology; wild and half-animal, they had a human torso and the body of a horse. They dwelt in thick forests and in the mountains, and seem to have been nature demons of some kind. One of the best known Centaurs was →...

In Greek mythology, the Centaurs (Greek: Κένταυροι (Kéntauroi)) are a race of creatures composed of part human and part horse. In early Attic vase-paintings, they are depicted as the torso of a human joined at the (human's) waist to the...