Centaurus

The first centaur was named after par excellence, born of the union of Ixion and Nifel mortal, Zeus put a cloud instead of his wife Hera when Ixion dared to love the goddess. As punishment, Ixion was taken to Hades, where he remains tied to a fiery wheel that will spin forever in hell. With his head, arms and human shoulders and body of a horse, Centauro represented lewd aspect of human nature, art and often used the centaurs to symbolize the non-Greek peoples, barbarous, uncivilized. The centaur Chiron was a separate case, was the son of Cronus and the Oceanid Filitra. To cheat on his wife Rhea, Cronus became Filitra horse to love, but Rea Filitra surprised and fled to the mountainous Pelasgia, where she gave birth to a child who was, at the same time, a horse from the waist down. Filitra Zeus turned into a lime, but the oceans would have felt ashamed of her son because Chiron, unlike the descendants of Centaurus, was so wise and learned that many young Greeks were sent to Mount Pelion, where he lived for his disciples, among them, Actaeon, Achilles and Jason. Chiron was immortalized as the constellation Centaurus.