Sec Elbis

In this fresco, Hercules - holding his infant son Hyllus - and his wife Deianira, standing in their chariot, meet the centaur Nessos, who bows to Hercules. He offers to transport Deianira across the river on his back, and when he does, he attempts to rape her. Hercules shoots Nessos with an arrow dipped in hydra blood. Before he dies, Nessos tells Deianira that his blood could be made into a potion that would make Hercules remain faithful to his wife. Unfortunately, that blood was infused with the hydra’s poison, and when Deianira spread it on Hercules’ lion skin, it burned him so horribly that he threw himself into a funeral pyre. Deianira hanged herself in grief.

'Spring has Sprung' from The New Yorker magazine, by Edward Sorel, 2010.

Centaures by Eugene Fromentin (1868)

'The Unicorn'. Norman Lindsay.

Matthijs Röling - Faun (1971)

Jean Gabriel Domergue (1889-1962), 'An Artist's Fantasy of a Sedan and a Satyr', ''The Tatler'', Vol. 97, #1263, 1925

Paul Reid (Scottish, 1975) - Pan Mortuus Est, Vivan Pan (2024)

Silver centaur, Seleucid Empire, ca. 160 BC, gilded silver, Kunsthistoriches Museum, Wien.

William-Adolphe Bouguereau, Les Oréades

"Faun with butterfly" by Norman Lindsay