2023年3月24日 · The satyr sprang up and tried to have sex with her. Amymone fled, with the satyr in hot pursuit. But Poseidon showed up, drove the satyr away, and then slept with Amymone himself. One famous myth told of how another satyr, Marsyas, brought about his own destruction when he challenged Apollo to a music contest.

2023年7月6日 · The satyr Chorus enters to sing the parodos (the first choral song). They complain of the drudgery of their labor for the Cyclops and express longing for their former life with Dionysus. The Drunken Silenus, Supported by a Satyr and a Faun by Schelte Adams à Bolswert after Peter Paul Rubens (1625–1659) The Metropolitan Museum of Art Public ...

2023年3月23日 · Marsyas was a satyr who roamed the woodlands of Phrygia. A virtuoso of the panpipes, he foolishly challenged Apollo, the god of music himself, to a music contest. Upon being defeated, Marsyas was flayed alive for his hubris.

2023年3月21日 · Nymphs and Satyr by William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1873). Sterling and Francine Clark Institute Public Domain. But while most satyrs were rather ugly, with bald heads, scraggly hair, and snub noses, Ampelus was remarkably handsome. Nonnus describes the young satyr’s beauty in his Dionysiaca:

2023年5月20日 · Pan was the infamous god of shepherds and goatherds who hailed from Arcadia. He was part-human and part-goat, and his days in the woods and countryside were spent singing, dancing, hunting, chasing nymphs, and playing his reed pipes.

2023年3月25日 · Beginning in the fifth century BCE, due to the growing influence of the satyr play, Silenus was often depicted as the leader of the satyrs in a variety of mythical scenes. One important image, preserved in several copies of an original sculpture from the Hellenistic period (323–31 BCE), shows Silenus holding the infant Dionysus.

2023年3月8日 · Strangely, as the fourth play of its tetralogy, the Alcestis occupied the spot usually reserved for a satyr play. Yet the Alcestis is clearly a tragedy, employing the diction, structure, and themes of the genre and lacking most of the basic stylistic features of satyr plays (such as explicit sexual themes and a chorus of satyrs). At the same ...

2023年1月6日 · Nymphs and Satyr by William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1873) Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA Public Domain. By and large, nymphs were gentle and benevolent spirits who watched over mortals as well as gods. In many traditions, nymphs were responsible for nursing the gods Zeus and Dionysus when they were still infants.

2023年10月9日 · Antiope was the beautiful daughter of either King Nycteus of Thebes or of the river god Asopus. Zeus fell in love with her and slept with her in the form of a satyr. Fleeing to conceal her pregnancy, Antiope wound up in the custody of King Epopeus of Sicyon. But she was forced to return to Thebes, where she was put in the care of her uncle Lycus.

2023年6月28日 · The adolescent Dionysus loved a satyr named Ampelus, though he knew that his lover was destined to die. Sure enough, Ampelus was soon killed in a bull-riding accident. Shortly thereafter, his body was transformed into a vine (in Greek, the word for “vine” is ampelos), and the heartbroken Dionysus made wine for the first time.