0294NOTCentaur

0294NOTCentaur_Rowling

Ovid Met. 12.210-31
Apollodorus Libr. 2.5.4

Rowling, J.K.Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. 2005: Bloomsbury.

Also featured in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (1997), Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2000), Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2003) and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (2007).

According to Rowling via Pottermore.com, "Centaurs are creatures with the top half of a man and the bottom half of a horse. They frequently speak in riddles and attempt to divine the future from the movements of the stars and planets."

Image by Mary Grandpre

Slide by CB

OGCMA slides are designed by Roger T. Macfarlane for use in Classical Civilization 241 courses at Brigham Young University.
The present resource contains information assembled for The Oxford Guide to Classical Mythology in the Arts, 1300 - 1990's, edited by J. Davidson Reid (Oxford 1994), and it is used with express permission from Oxford University press.
Address concerns or inquiries to macfarlane@byu.edu.