Wat is a centaur?

Question

im learning about mythology and i need to know wats a centaur

Answer 1

Body of a horse, upper body of a man.

Answer 2

Half boy, half horse who likes to eat people that don't know how to use spell check....

Answer 3

In Greek mythology, the centaurs (from Ancient 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 horse's withers, where the horse's neck would be.

This half-human and half-animal composition has led many writers to treat them as liminal beings, caught between the two natures, embodied in contrasted myths, and as the embodiment of untamed nature, as in their battle with the Lapiths, or conversely as teachers, like Chiron.

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 the son of Ixion and Nephele (instead of the Centaurs) or of Apollo and Stilbe, daughter of the river god Peneus. In the latter version of the story his twin brother was Lapithus, 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, Mount Pholoe in Arcadia and the Malean peninsula in southern Laconia.

Answer 4

:) all i did was google it for you.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centaur

Answer 5

A mythical creature with the body of a horse and upper body of a man from Greek mythology. You can read about them on wikipeadia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centaur.

Heres a picture of one http://www.kalliston.org/centaur.jpg

Answer 6

A mythological creature that is half-man and half-horse.  And, had quite an appetite for the ladies!

Answer 7

a centaur huh its a kind of horse thing half horse and half human if u wathed narnina its that thing not that goat i hope i helped

Answer 8

HALF HORSE HALF MAN DUH!!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 9

The astrological sign of Sagittarius is a centaur

Answer 10

A centaur is a mythol;ogical creature that has a body of a horse and the top half were the neck and head would be would be half a body of a man

Answer 11

A centaur is one of those half human half horse things.

its got like the torso and head of a human and then a horse body and legs.

they're really weird looking though.