{"id":188,"date":"2015-12-15T00:36:39","date_gmt":"2015-12-15T00:36:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/arth310lankiewicz\/?page_id=188"},"modified":"2016-11-16T03:45:05","modified_gmt":"2016-11-16T03:45:05","slug":"mythological-beings","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/arth310lankiewicz\/mythological-beings\/","title":{"rendered":"Mythological Beings"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theoi.com\/Georgikos\/KentauroiThessalioi.html\" target=\"_blank\">Centaurs<\/a><\/h6>\n<p>Typically Centaurs have the upper body of a man and the lower body of a horse. A breed of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theoi.com\/Pontios\/Ikhthyokentauroi.html\" target=\"_blank\">ocean dwelling\u00a0Centaur<\/a>\u00a0has the upper body of a man, the midsection of a horse, and the tail of a fish.<\/p>\n<h6>Maenads<\/h6>\n<p>Immortal female followers of <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/arth310lankiewicz\/history-of-roman-sarcophagi\/mythological-characters\/\">Bacchus<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h6><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theoi.com\/Pontios\/Nereides.html\" target=\"_blank\">Nereids<\/a><\/h6>\n<p>A type of sea nymph, daughters of <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/arth310lankiewicz\/history-of-roman-sarcophagi\/mythological-characters\/\">Nereus<\/a>. They care for ocean life and sailors in distress. They are depicted as beautiful women with webbed feet or small tails.<\/p>\n<h6><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theoi.com\/Georgikos\/Satyroi.html\" target=\"_blank\">Satyrs<\/a><\/h6>\n<p>Depicted with the body of a man, the tail of a horse, ears of a donkey, and sometimes the lower body of a goat. They are stout with round and flat noses. They reside in the countryside.<\/p>\n<h6>Sea Hybrids<\/h6>\n<p>Combinations of various different animals (such as bulls, goats, horses etc.) with fish tails.<\/p>\n<h6><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theoi.com\/Georgikos\/Seilenoi.html\" target=\"_blank\">Sons of Silenus<\/a><\/h6>\n<p>Similar to elderly satyrs. Fathered by Silenus.<\/p>\n<h6><\/h6>\n<h6><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theoi.com\/Pontios\/Tritones.html\" target=\"_blank\">Tritones<\/a><\/h6>\n<p>Half man have fish tailed monsters. Followers of Neptune, the sea god.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><em><strong>Also mentioned..<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<h6><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theoi.com\/Ther\/Minotauros.html\" target=\"_blank\">Minotaur<\/a><\/h6>\n<p>The half bull half man hybrid trapped in the labyrinth on Crete. Half brother of <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/arth310lankiewicz\/history-of-roman-sarcophagi\/mortals\/\">Ariadne<\/a>. Killed by <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/arth310lankiewicz\/history-of-roman-sarcophagi\/mortals\/\">Theseus<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Centaurs Typically Centaurs have the upper body of a man and the lower body of a horse. A breed of ocean dwelling\u00a0Centaur\u00a0has the upper body of a man, the midsection of a horse, and the tail of a fish. Maenads Immortal female followers of Bacchus. Nereids A type of sea nymph, daughters of Nereus. They [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":264,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-188","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/arth310lankiewicz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/arth310lankiewicz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/arth310lankiewicz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/arth310lankiewicz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/264"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/arth310lankiewicz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/arth310lankiewicz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":468,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/arth310lankiewicz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/188\/revisions\/468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/arth310lankiewicz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}