silenus

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• Their chief was called Silenus, a minor deity associated like Hermes and Priapus with fertility. Pan and Satyrs
• German scholars have adopted the doctrine that Marsyas belonged to that mythological group which they designate as "Schlauch-silen" or, as we would say in English, "Wineskin-bearing Silenuses. Satyricon
• An old legend has it that King Midas hunted a long time in the woods for the wise Silenus , companion of Dionysus, without being able to catch him.
• Its leader, an old grotesque-looking fellow, dressed in a priest's vestments -- doubtless a part of the plunder of the night -- and seated on a barrel on wheels, like a Silenus, from which, at their several halts, he harangued his followers, and drank to the 'downfal of the Bourbons,' soon let me into the history of the last twelve hours. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843
• The entrance to the ecstatic Dionysiac world in the Villa of the Mysteries is marked by Silenus playing a cithara at the edge of a rocky landscape.
• No such figures of Silenus happen to have survived from antiquity, though the idea of ‘a god within’ another statue or image is known from medieval Christian Europe and from Hindu India.
• Here you may see two fine Rubens, a portrait of Philip IV of Spain, and a Silenus with Bacchantes, a great picture of James I of England with his family, painted by some "imitator" of Vandyck, though who it was in Genoa that knew both Vandyck and England is not yet clear; a Ribera, a Reni, a Florence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa With Sixteen Illustrations In Colour By William Parkinson And Sixteen Other Illustrations, Second Edition
• In the earlier rendition, Titian depicts Silenus in the background, asleep and slumped over.
• The band is amusingly introduced by their MC Silenus director Louis Butelli, doing his best Tom Waits. Michael Giltz: Theater: NYMF #3 -- Chorus Girls, Satyrs, And Song Cycles
• We again meet The Consul, Brawne Lamia, Fedmahn Kessad, Sol Weintraub and his daughter Rachel, Martin Silenus, Father Lenar Hoyt, and Het Masteen, the pilgrims all striving to reach and petition the Shrike for their one wish to be granted. The Fall of Hyperion: It’s the End of the World « A Working Title