Set of Dessert Plates Centaur – Medusa

The Hazardous Centaur

A centaur is a creature from greek mythology. They have head, arms, and torso of a human and body and legs of a horse. Centaurs have inhabited the region of Magnesia in Thessaly. They are the symbol of mountain Pelion, the mountain and the land of Centaurs.

The Careless Medusa

In Greek mythology Medusa was a monster, a Gorgon, generally described as having the face of a hideous human female with living venomous snakes in place of hair. Gazing directly into her eyes would turn onlookers to stone. Medusa was beheaded by the hero Perseus, who thereafter used her head, which retained its ability to turn onlookers to stone, as a weapon until he gave it to the goddess Athena to place on her shield. In classical antiquity the image of the head of Medusa appeared in the evil-averting device known as the Gorgoneion.