Ichthyocentaurs
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ichthyocentaurs-169-4219787
title:
Ichthyocentaurs
text:
In late Classical Greek art, ichthyocentaurs were centaurine sea beings with the upper body of a human, the lower anterior half and fore-legs of a horse, and the tailed half of a fish. The earliest example dates to the 2nd century B. C., among the friezes in the Pergamon Altar. There are further examples of Aphros and/or Bythos, the personifications of foam and abyss, respectively, depicted as ichthyocentaurs in mosaics and sculptures. The term ichthyocentaur is of late coinage, attributable to
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Mythological aquatic creatures
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ichthyocentaurs
date created:
2008-05-11T02:39:57Z
date modified:
2024-08-31T20:46:06Z
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