Talk:Centaur

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Did centaurs actually exist? - Article from Pravda.ru in English
This article is full of non-sense. There isn't any sort of scientific credibility in it. It's obviously - and very ridiculously - made up. I think this link should be removed because it provides false and irrelevant information regarding Centaurs. Haisook 17:09, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks go to the user who removed it. Haisook 13:01, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  'Did centaurs actually exist?' article is non-sense! 

message: I am changing this back to first novel.
the Narnia books (as well as in the movie adaptation of its second novel, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe),
See the section on Reading order in The Chronicles of Narnia regarding this. (esp. the bottom of the section. The guy who first persuaded publishers to change the numbering of the books is co-producer of the movies. And they are being made in order of original publication...) VikÞor    Talk 07:57, 2 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Narnia book order

message: I have removed all of the following information from the article. --Theranos 19:55, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The section was a copyright violation from here and here and has been removed. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 00:30, 15 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Unorthodox theories on Centaur page moved here

message: I'm sorry, I love Mortal Kombat, I really do.  But this should be an academic article about mythology, and for the first picture people see it should be something a little more conservative, like a classical painting or sculpture or something.
On top of that, the "centaurs" in Mortal Kombat have features that are not part of the traditional description, like the giant bull horns and the metal tail that shoots fireballs.  Maybe include the picture in a section on centaurs in popular culture, but not as the basic image.
By the way....
If you're looking for an additional picture for anything, there IS a picture of the Hodges Library centaur available under Creative Commons license on Flickr that I took a couple of weeks ago.  I didn't want to insert it without discussion, however!  
If anyone's interested, you can see the picture on My Flickr Photostream, linked here.  It's there if you want it!
Wyoming Jackrabbit (talk) 23:14, 30 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Different Picture Please!

message: This article has a box with so-called "data" on centaurs, treating them as real creatures (I'm using the ordinary definition of "real" here). I think this is inappropriate: the box appears near the top of the article, and it does not label itself in a way that would indicate that the vast scientific and lay consensus of the present-day world is that centaurs are mythological/imaginary creatures.
Of course, the photo of the statue in the box is very informative, so it should stay, provided it's legal.
S. Neuman 20:12, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Content is inapropriate for a serious reference work 

message: The photo of the archer is not a centuar, the creature has the body of a leopard. It's an Indian Myth...can't remember the name...anyway, not a centuar, so I'll be removing it. 209.193.50.217 22:14, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Photo is NOT of a Centuar 

message: Centaurs are sometimes shown as wearing armour or other clothing, but in most modern images and films, male centaurs are shown wearing nothing. At a certain cultural level it's hard to distinguish a jokester from an earnest illiterate: we can thank User:82.7.42.34 for this assertion, perhaps from a remembered comic book. A lot of sensible text has eroded from this article, and some illustrations too. --Wetman 10:09, 14 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Portrayal 

message: As a centaur, I find portions of this article highly offensive.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Grammaticus VII (talk • contribs) 09:47, 25 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  POV 

message: There is a commerical where actor Scott Bailey appears in,I think it should be noted in the modern day things,here is my proof.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtN9CW01QDM  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Nudist1 (talk • contribs) 02:40, 4 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Scott Bailey appears as a centaur

message: I put the perfectly zany dream of Alexander Hislop into a footnote, as it was too promi9nent. This is nonsense: (In Greece, Mot became the constellation of Lupus.  No, the Greek constellation was Therion, the animal. The Babylonian connection is unsourced: Babble-on -ian?--Wetman (talk) 06:56, 18 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Mad etymologies

message: The warfare section seems weird, and I have my suspicions--it sounds more like something out of an RPG or Harry Potter than real mythology. At any rate it should be "colt" not "fawn", although I'm not going to waste my time correcting it if it's just going to be deleted later. 97.104.210.67 (talk) 03:34, 8 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Warfare? 

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message: Why no mention of the centaurs' fame as great archers?  This also ties in to their potential origin as a modification/fictionalization of real-life steppe nomads -- known for their cavalry-archer style of combat. Chuck (talk) 05:25, 11 September 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Because no one has researched the issue and added anything about it.  Go for it.  Montanabw(talk) 20:33, 15 September 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Preliminary research shows that the centaurs' fame as archers is actually hard to pin down.  Earliest depictions of centaurs (both in art and writing) seem to have them fighting with rocks and tree branches.  Also, the centaur in Greek culture seems to predate the emergence of the steppe cavalry-archer.  The only art depictions I could find of centaurs with bows seem to be Renaissance or later (that's just from doing various searches in Google Images, though).  Perhaps the centaur picked up the bow when the Greeks started seeing horse archers coming off the steppes (would have been Scythians at the time).  Or perhaps it was a relatively modern reinterpretation based on Chiron being described as teaching archery, among the other skills he taught.  I'll look into it more. Chuck (talk) 05:51, 2 October 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Maybe try databases like JSTOR (you can get abstracts free, and then post over at that one research message board if you want someone to find the full article for you).  "Centuar" and "archer" would probably make a good search.  Someone has probably studied this somewhere... Montanabw(talk) 19:00, 2 October 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Archers 

message: Okay, I'm not sure if I should be asking this here or on wiktionary, but I was raised, and most people around me pronounce this mythical creature with three syllables and spelling it as above. Has anyone else here seen this variant, because I really can't even find it searching +cenotaur on google, except one instance that looks like a typo, or a fandom/work of fiction specific usage. Any clarity would help. Hallaman3 (talk) 02:59, 2 January 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Spelling is new to me, but try wikt:Centaur and see, I guess.  Montanabw(talk) 09:28, 2 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cenotaur 

message: The List of Centaurs section is a really cool and helpful table! I'm not sure if it really goes here, though, it seems a bit extensive/elaborate for this article. Is there anything that we can do with this, or is there somewhere it would fit better? --MilliGrams (talk) 17:52, 3 March 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: For now, I'm going to move the list out of the article. It has a lot of good, specific information that I think could be useful somewhere, so I am going to put it in one of my sandboxes so that it can easily be grabbed if someone finds a better place for it! --MilliGrams (talk) 17:29, 8 March 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  List of Centaurs 

message: I believe the first paragraph of the Classical literature section is original research since it makes broad claims about classical literature while only citing the literature and not another source who made those connections. I'm going to post the paragraph here for reference, and if anyone has better sourcing for the claims, please share!
:Of the various Classical Greek authors who mentioned centaurs, Pindar was the first who describes undoubtedly a combined monster.[28] Previous authors (Homer) tend to use words such as pheres (cf. theres, "beasts")[29] that could also mean ordinary savage men riding ordinary horses, though Homer does specifically refer to a centaur ("kentauros") in the Odyssey.[30] Contemporaneous representations of hybrid centaurs can be found in archaic Greek art.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by MilliGrams (talk • contribs) 14:00, 12 March 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm gonna go ahead remove it --MilliGrams (talk) 14:21, 17 March 2019 (UTC)

text: according to legend , there were centaurs at Orekh Lake in the Vologda region of the Russian Federation 300 years ago 176.65.96.15 (talk) 17:23, 16 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Original research 

message: Perhaps from κεντέω (kentéō, “I goad, wound”) + ταῦρος (taûros, “bull”) either from bull-fighting or from herding. (Wiktionary) --Manfariel (talk) 01:26, 2 May 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Etymology