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.
Famous People with the Surname CORTEZ. 1  HernÃ¡n CortÃ©s / Hernando CortÃ©s - Spanish conquistador of the Aztec empire, and Governor of New Spain (later to become Mexico) from 1521 to 1528. 2  Alfonso CortÃ©s - Well-known Nicaraguan poet. 3  Gregorio Cortez â A Mexican American folk hero to Mexicans in the American Old West.