A centaur was a creature from Greek mythology which was half-man and half-horse.The head, arms and torso were human and joined at the waist to the body and legs of a horse. These creatures represented barbarism and unbridled chaos and were frequently represented in Greek architectural sculpture and pottery decoration.he father of the race of centaurs was Centaurus, himself the offspring of Ixion who had made love to Hera, or more precisely, a cloud made by a jealous Zeus to resemble Hera. The centaurs were believed to live in the forests of Thessaly, beyond the laws of man.
Nike brings back Classic Cortez running shoes popularized in the movie 'Forest Gump'. Even those who never ran a marathon in the Cortez shoes -- or weren't alive in the '70s -- might still recognize them from the Tom Hanks film, where his character Gump wears them on a cross-country run from Alabama to the Southwest.
So 300 was a movie (2007) based on a comic (1998) based on a historical event, and Iâm still irked about the movie and the comic. Frank Millerâs comic was a retelling of the Battle of Thermopylae. The movie was directed by Zach Snyder, with Miller as executive producer and consultant.ow that weâve gotten some of what 300 did wrong out of the way, lets talk about awesome ladies who were doing things like not being a prop in a movie about dudes during Xerexeâs attack! Hydna the diver and Artemisia of Caria, specifically.