Lapith
The Lapiths (Greek Λαπίθαι, latin Lapithae ) are a legendary people which shall have the Greek mythology, lived in ancient Greece. They were descended from Lapithes, a son of Apollo and Stilbe. Their residences are said to have been in northern Thessaly. This is in today's Central Greece and has as its capital Larisa.
Mythology
According to tradition, the Lapiths of gigantic figure and noble sentiments were, which is why noble families of Greece still like to trace their origin to it.
For the wedding of Pirithous brave Lapith with the beautiful Hippodamia the wild centaurs (Latin letters, Greek Centaurs ) were invited to the people with the horses bodies. As Eurytion the bride wanted to do violence during the celebration of drunken centaur, the Lapiths cut off his nose and ears and unceremoniously dragged the Bleeding out the door. Subsequently, there was a relentless battle between hosts and guests, in which the Lapiths finally, also thanks to the help of the hero Theseus, the upper hand kept.
The legendary Centauromachy, the " Battle of the Centaurs " between the noble people here and the wild and eerie nature embodying as animal people, is probably also of the conflict between intellect and instinctual in the individual and was always popular theme in art and literature.