Creature

Name: Centauri

Alternate Name: Centaurs

Source: classical

Nature: mythical

Description: Hybrid creatures with the legs and body of a horse and the chest, arms and head of a man, in the Inferno they patrol the Phlegethon river insuring that the murderers, plunderers, and tyrants do not escape.

Images:

Botticelli, Sandro

Botticelli, Violent

Doré, Gustave

Doré, Centaurs Doré, Centaurs 2

Flaxman, John

Flaxman, Centaurs

Giovanni di Paolo

Yates Thompson 36, Theseus, Ariadne