Centaur

This is a centaur are a race composed of part human and part horse bodies. In vase-paintings they are creatures with the whole upper part of the human body fixed on where the horse's head should be.

The Centaurs are found in various myths mostly as vicious creatures. They are famous fir their battle with the Lapiths. The most well known is Chiron, a healer and mentor for many of the Greek heroes.

They were said to be the children of Ixion and Nephele, another versions says they were the children of a certain centaurus who might have been either Ixion's or Apollo's child.

The Centaurs were said to have inhabited Magnesia and Mount Pelion in Thessaly, Mount Pholoe in Arcadia and the Malean peninsula in southern Laconia.

The Centaurs are famous for their battle with the Lapithae, they tried to carry away all the women in Lapithae including the Hippodamia the one who was going to marry King Pirithous, the king, who was also a son of Ixion. Theseus who happens to be there assists him and drive all the centaurs away.

The Centaurs are potrayed as wild and untamed beasts in Greek mythology. Except for Chiron.
Unlike other Centaurs who were the offspring of Ixion and Nephele. He was the son of the Titan Cronus, who turned into a horse to mate with the nymph Philyra.

Chiron married the nymph Chariclo who bore three daughters Hipee, Enderis and Ocyrhoe and Carystus. He was a great healer and a tutor for many heroes like Achilles, Theseus, Jason and some say even the god of revelry Dionysus.

He was ironically hit by an arrow from Heracles, and it is said that he could not heal himself and gave his immortaliti to the titan Prometheus. He is now honored with his his constellation Sagittauris and Centaurus.