people
The Lapiths
Lapiths
A people of Thessaly whose king Pirithous married Hippodamia; at the wedding the drunken Centaurs fought them — war started, again, by a woman.
Reading notes
- The Loves §2.12 Lapiths
The Thessalian people whose wedding-feast erupted in the Centaur battle — war begun, again, by a woman.
- The Heroides §17 the Haemonian men
The Thessalian (Haemonian) Lapiths, drawn to war by the rape attempt at Hippodamia's wedding.
- Metamorphoses §12.365 the Lapith
The Thessalian people of Pirithous, whose wedding the Centaurs disrupt.
- Metamorphoses §14.461 she who stirred the Lapith battles
Hippodamia, bride of the Lapith Pirithous, whose wedding sparked the battle of Lapiths and Centaurs (told in Book 12).