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[[Image:Satyrs.png|right|thumb|300px|Satyrs]] | [[Image:Satyrs.png|right|thumb|300px|Satyrs]] | ||
Half-man and half-goat, Satyrs look mostly human from the waist up, with two goat-like legs and horns. | Half-man and half-goat, Satyrs look mostly human from the waist up, with two goat-like legs and horns. They walk on two legs and have human intelligence. | ||
[[Silenus]] is the leader of a satyr gang. His gang likes heavy metal rock music, including mosh pits and crowd body surfing. According to Hercules, his gang never comes out of the forest. | |||
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'''Jason:''' Whoa. Smells like a satyr crawled in here and ''died''.<br> | '''Jason:''' Whoa. Smells like a satyr crawled in here and ''died''.<br> | ||
- ''[[1.06 - Teacher's Pests]]''}} | - ''[[1.06 - Teacher's Pests]]''}} | ||
==The Myth== | |||
* In Greek mythology, a satyr is one of a troop of ithyphallic male companions of Dionysus with horse-like (equine) features, including a horse-tail, horse-like ears, and sometimes a horse-like phallus. Early artistic representations sometimes include horse-like legs, but in 6th-century BC black-figure pottery human legs are the most common. In Roman Mythology there is a concept similar to satyrs, with goat-like features: the faun, being half-man, half-goat. Greek-speaking Romans often used the Greek term saturos when referring to the Latin faunus, and eventually syncretized the two. - [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satyr Wikipedia] | |||
[[Category:Characters]][[Category:Mythical Creatures]][[Category:Mythology]] | [[Category:Characters]][[Category:Mythical Creatures]][[Category:Mythology]] | ||
Latest revision as of 21:58, 22 February 2016
Half-man and half-goat, Satyrs look mostly human from the waist up, with two goat-like legs and horns. They walk on two legs and have human intelligence.
Silenus is the leader of a satyr gang. His gang likes heavy metal rock music, including mosh pits and crowd body surfing. According to Hercules, his gang never comes out of the forest.
Jason: Whoa. Smells like a satyr crawled in here and died.
- 1.06 - Teacher's Pests
- 1.06 - Teacher's Pests
The Myth
- In Greek mythology, a satyr is one of a troop of ithyphallic male companions of Dionysus with horse-like (equine) features, including a horse-tail, horse-like ears, and sometimes a horse-like phallus. Early artistic representations sometimes include horse-like legs, but in 6th-century BC black-figure pottery human legs are the most common. In Roman Mythology there is a concept similar to satyrs, with goat-like features: the faun, being half-man, half-goat. Greek-speaking Romans often used the Greek term saturos when referring to the Latin faunus, and eventually syncretized the two. - Wikipedia
