Ipotane

In Greek mythology, Ipotanes were a race of half-horse, half-humans; the original version of the satyr.

The typical Ipotane looked overall human, but had the legs, hindquarters, tail, and ears of a horse. However, some had human-like rather than horselike legs (compare with early Centaurs, whose front legs were often human-like). The Greek suggested by "ipotane" is ἱππότης (hippotes). It means a person riding a horse.^{[citation needed]} It is also used as an adjective as in ἱππότης λεώς (hippotes leos) — horse riding people. The definition given above would fit ἱππότης λεώς — "horse-people".

Such a person would not look "overall human"; rather, the torso would look human.

See also

• Faun - Italian
• Glaistig - Scottish
• Hippopodes - Greek myth
• Pan - early Greek myth
• Silenus - early Greek mythology

References

• Liddell & Scott, Greek-English Lexicon.