For The Love of Horses (Pegasus Equestrian Center Series Book 3)
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Diana Vincent has loved writing stories since grade school and has been crazy about horses since a toddler.
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Now she has found extreme pleasure in combining these two loves and has written the Pegasus Equestrian Center Series - three books that focus on developing a partnership with horses in the sport of combined training eventing and dressage. Diana's own equine partner is a lovely black Morgan Diana Vincent has loved writing stories since grade school and has been crazy about horses since a toddler. Diana's own equine partner is a lovely black Morgan gelding. Diana works as a registered nurse in a critical care unit, and lives in the Pacific Northwest with her husband, and has three grown sons.
She is currently writing a family drama, and polishing up a young adult science fiction novel. She also plans to write two more books for the Pegasus Equestrian Center Series. Other books in the series. Pegasus Equestrian Center 4 books. The centaurs were usually said to have been born of Ixion and Nephele the cloud made in the image of Hera.
Another version, however, makes them children of a certain Centaurus , who mated with the Magnesian mares. This Centaurus was either himself the son of Ixion and Nephele inserting an additional generation or of Apollo and Stilbe , daughter of the river god Peneus. In the later version of the story his twin brother was Lapithes , ancestor of the Lapiths , thus making the two warring peoples cousins. Centaurs were said to have inhabited the region of Magnesia and Mount Pelion in Thessaly , the Foloi oak forest in Elis , and the Malean peninsula in southern Laconia.
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Another tribe of centaurs was said to have lived on Cyprus. According to Nonnus , they were fathered by Zeus , who, in frustration after Aphrodite had eluded him, spilled his seed on the ground of that land. Unlike those of mainland Greece, the Cyprian centaurs were horned. There were also the Lamian Pheres, twelve rustic daimones of the Lamos river. They were set by Zeus to guard the infant Dionysos , protecting him from the machinations of Hera , but the enraged goddess transformed them into ox-horned Centaurs. The Lamian Pheres later accompanied Dionysos in his campaign against the Indians.
Centaurs subsequently featured in Roman mythology , and were familiar figures in the medieval bestiary. They remain a staple of modern fantastic literature. The centaur's half-human, half-horse composition has led many writers to treat them as liminal beings , caught between the two natures, embodied in contrasted myths, both as the embodiment of untamed nature, as in their battle with the Lapiths their kin , or conversely as teachers, like Chiron.
The Centaurs are best known for their fight with the Lapiths , which was caused by their attempt to carry off Hippodamia and the rest of the Lapith women on the day of Hippodamia's marriage to Pirithous , king of the Lapithae, himself the son of Ixion. The strife among these cousins is a metaphor for the conflict between the lower appetites and civilized behavior in humankind.
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Theseus , a hero and founder of cities, who happened to be present, threw the balance in favour of the right order of things, and assisted Pirithous. The Centaurs were driven off or destroyed. Centaurs are thought of in many Greek myths as being as wild as untamed horses. Like the Titanomachy , the defeat of the Titans by the Olympian gods , the contests with the Centaurs typify the struggle between civilization and barbarism.
The Centauromachy is most famously portrayed in the Parthenon metopes by Phidias and in a Renaissance-era sculpture by Michelangelo. The tentative identification of two fragmentary Mycenaean terracotta figures as centaurs, among the extensive Mycenaean pottery found at Ugarit , suggests a Bronze Age origin for these creatures of myth. An often-published Geometric period bronze of a warrior face-to-face with a centaur is at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In Greek art of the Archaic period , centaurs are depicted in three different forms. Some centaurs are depicted with a human torso attached to the body of a horse at the withers , where the horse's neck would be; this form, designated "Class A" by Professor Baur, later became standard.
A third type, designated "Class C", depicts centaurs with human forelegs terminating in hooves. Baur describes this as an apparent development of Aeolic art, which never became particularly widespread.
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Centaurs were also frequently depicted in Roman art. A particularly famous example is the pair of centaurs drawing the chariot of Constantine the Great and his family, in the Great Cameo of Constantine circa AD —16 , which embodies wholly pagan imagery, and contrasts sharply with the popular image of Constantine as the patron of early Christianity. The most common theory holds that the idea of centaurs came from the first reaction of a non-riding culture, as in the Minoan Aegean world , to nomads who were mounted on horses. The Lapith tribe of Thessaly, who were the kinsmen of the Centaurs in myth, were described as the inventors of horse-back riding by Greek writers.
The Thessalian tribes also claimed their horse breeds were descended from the centaurs. Of the various Classical Greek authors who mentioned centaurs, Pindar was the first who describes undoubtedly a combined monster. Lucretius in his first-century BC philosophical poem On the Nature of Things denied the existence of centaurs based on their differing rate of growth. He states that at the age of three years horses are in the prime of their life while, at three humans are still little more than babies, making hybrid animals impossible.
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Kinnaras , another half-man half-horse mythical creature from the Indian mythology , appeared in various ancient texts, arts as well as sculptures from all around India. It is shown as a horse with the torso of a man in place of where the horse's head has to be, that is similar to a Greek centaur. The Greek word kentauros is generally regarded as of obscure origin. In a popular legend associated with Pazhaya Sreekanteswaram Temple in Thiruvananthapuram , the curse of a saintly Brahmin transformed a handsome Yadava prince into a creature having a horse's body with the prince's head, arms and torso in place of the head and neck of the horse.
Though female centaurs, called centaurides or centauresses, are not mentioned in early Greek literature and art, they do appear occasionally in later antiquity. A Macedonian mosaic of the 4th century BC is one of the earliest examples of the centauress in art. Centaurs preserved a Dionysian connection in the 12th-century Romanesque carved capitals of Mozac Abbey in the Auvergne , where other capitals depict harvesters, boys riding goats a further Dionysiac theme and griffins guarding the chalice that held the wine. Centaurs are shown on a number of Pictish carved stones from north-east Scotland , erected in the 8th—9th centuries AD e.
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Though outside the limits of the Roman Empire , these depictions appear to be derived from Classical prototypes. Jerome's version of the Life of St Anthony the Great , the hermit monk of Egypt, written by Athanasius of Alexandria , was widely disseminated in the Middle Ages; it relates Anthony's encounter with a centaur, who challenged the saint but was forced to admit that the old gods had been overthrown. The episode was often depicted; in The Meeting of St Anthony Abbot and St Paul the Hermit by Stefano di Giovanni called "Sassetta" , [28] of two episodic depictions in a single panel of the hermit Anthony 's travel to greet the hermit Paul, one is his encounter along the pathway with the demonic figure of a centaur in a wood.
A centaur-like half-human half-equine creature called Polkan appeared in Russian folk art , and lubok prints of the 17th—19th centuries.
Polkan is originally based on Pulicane , a half-dog from Andrea da Barberino 's poem I Reali di Francia , which was once popular in the Slavonic world in prosaic translations. Hodges library at The University of Tennessee hosts a permanent exhibit of a "Centaur from Volos ", in its library.
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The exhibit, made by sculptor Bill Willers by combining a study human skeleton with the skeleton of a Shetland pony , is entitled "Do you believe in Centaurs? The full-mount skeleton of a Centaur, built by Skulls Unlimited International, is on display, along with several other fabled creatures, including the Cyclops , Unicorn and Griffin. Lewis ' The Chronicles of Narnia series depicts centaurs as the wisest and noblest of creatures. Narnian Centaurs are gifted at stargazing, prophecy, healing, and warfare, a fierce and valiant race always faithful to the High King Aslan the Lion.
Lewis generally used the species to inspire awe in his readers.