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Centaur fighting a Lapith

One of the Parthenon marbles, from a series of reliefs that show the fight that ensued when the Lapiths invited centaurs to a wedding banquet. The centaurs got drunk and tried to run off with the Lapith women; chaos ensued. (Protip: don't invite the centaurs to your parties.) This relief appears in the Larousse Encyclopedia of Mythology, which Karin read as a child until it nearly fell apart.

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Uploaded on January 2, 2011
Taken on December 18, 2010