In this work, it is noted that Amycus, along with many other centaurs, was invited to and attended the wedding that turned into a bloody battle.
Theseus, a friend of Pirithous, stopped the centaur Eurytus, ultimately killing him resulting in the first blood of the battle.
Driven with anger due to the death of the loved centaur Eurytus, Amycus smashed the head of innocent Lapith Celadon with a candlestick.
Pelates from Pella clubbed him to death using a leg from a maple table, sending Amycus down to the underworld Tartarus.
Two of the most famously portrayed artworks are in the Parthenon metopes by Phidias and in a Renaissance-era sculpture by Michelangelo.