Centaurs hitting the hero Kaeneus with trunks of
trees, bronze sheet 630 BC.
Kaeneus was the son of Elatus and Hippia from the Lapith
family of Thessaly.
The myth tell us that Kaeneus was born a girl, with the name Kaenis,
but her
lover, Poseidon, made her a man, at her own request and immortal.
Kaeneus
could be exterminated only, if nailed to the ground. The hero took part
in the
Argonautic expedition and also in the Kalydonian boar hunt. He was
killed by
the Centaurs, as the picture shows, who nailed his feet to the ground and
crushed him to death, with trunks of trees. After his death, he was
transformed into a bird. Archaeological Museum Olympia
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