Silenus
Stub entity — referenced by another entity from source #406 but not yet directly extracted from its own source.
↻ synthesized from 9 sources
When
- First attested
- 800 BCE
- Attested period
- -800 – 2020
- Historical notes
- Appears in Euripides's Cyclops.
Relationships
- co occurs with
- Apis, Dagon, Mnevis, White Elephant, Ljesche, Bijagos, Marsyas, Faunus, Hermaphroditus, Salmacis, Eros, Ampelos, Calamos, Bacchus, Ariadne, genius loci, Victory, Hercules, child-Pan, Atargatis, Crow, Hermes, Aphrodite, Jupiter, Pan
- parent of
- satyr
- serves
- Fauns
- consort of
- Syrinx
- teacher of
- Dionysus
- served by
- Donkey of Silenus
Mentioned by
Sources
- peer reviewed
Source passages
“In Dionysius I of Syracuse's fragmentary satyr play Limos (Starvation), Silenus attempts to give the hero Heracles an enema. One story, mentioned by Herodotus in his Histories and in a fragment by Aristotle, recounts that King Midas once captured a silenus, who provided him with wise philosophical advice.”
#7407 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“They were symbols of peace and fertility, and their Greek chieftain, Silenus, was a minor deity of Greek mythology.”
#8371 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“Roman frescos found at Pompeii and Herculaneum show Hermaphroditus in various styles, alone and interacting with satyrs, Pan and Silenus.”
#20658 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“Eclogue VI (in which Silenus is caught sleeping, wakes and recites a poem) which, as Hubbard notes, does not seem to have been adopted as a model by other post-Virgilian Latin poets.”
#40819 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“Thomas Woolner wrote Silenus, a long narrative poem about the myth, in which Syrinx becomes the lover of Silenus, but drowns when she attempts to escape rape by Pan. As a result of the crime, Pan is transmuted into a demon figure and Silenus becomes a drunkard.”
#43449 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001