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The Lapiths were the legendary people that inhabited Thessaly. They were descendants of the river god Peneus and took part in the journey of the Argonauts and the Trojan War. The most famous kings of the Lapiths were Ixion and his son Peirithoos, a close friend of Theseus, king of Athens. Ixion also fathered the race of the Centaurs, who during the feast of the wedding of their half-brother Peirithoos became drunk and attempted to carry off the Lapith women. The victors of the battle, also known as the Centauromachy, were the Lapiths.