ID: 901002115 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ia/901002115	Record Type: Character/Person

	Lapiths (Greco-Roman people)

Note: Legendary Greco-Roman people who lived in Thessaly, in the valley of the Peneus and on Mount Pelion. According to some myths, they were descended from the twin of the founder of the Centaurs. In the Iliad the Lapiths assisted the Greek fleet in the Trojan War.

Names:

	Lapiths (Greco-Roman people) (preferred,English-P,D)
	Lapithae (Greco-Roman people) (English)

Hierarchical Position:

		Legend, Religion, Mythology (P)
		....<Greek iconography> (P)
		........<Greek characters> (G)
		............Lapiths (Greco-Roman people) (I)

Related Iconography:

	is actor for .... Battle of Lapiths and Centaurs
	..........(Legend, Religion, Mythology, Greek iconography, Greek narratives, Battle of Lapiths and Centaurs (Greco-Roman narrative)) [901001702]

Other Relationships:

	role/characteristic is .... people (agents)
	.....(People (hierarchy name)) (AAT)

	located in .... Thessaly
	.....(Kardhítsa regional division, Thessaly, Greece, Europe) (TGN)

	located in .... Pelion Mount
	.....(Magnesía regional division, Thessaly, Greece, Europe) (TGN)

Sources:

	Lapiths (Greco-Roman people)
	................Metropolitan Museum of Art [online] (2001-)
	................Hansen, Handbook of Classical Mythology (2004)
	Lapithae (Greco-Roman people)
	................Metropolitan Museum of Art [online] (2001-)

Iconography Record Sources:

	................ Hansen, Handbook of Classical Mythology (2004)
	................ Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-)
	................ Iconclass Illustrated Edition (2022-) mentioned in 992L71411 fight of Lapiths and centaurs at the wedding of Pirithous and Hippodamia