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silenus::noun | Spocien Dictionary
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A prominent statue of Marsyas as a wise old silenus stood near the Roman Forum.
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Silenus leaves his lifestyle, liquidates his assets, and signs on with Sad King Billy.
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Silenus, the Satyrs and the Fauns were either capriform or had some part of their bodies shaped like that of a goat.
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Silenus was usually depicted with long golden hair, a beard, a bulging forehead, a snub nose and an open mouth.
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Silenus was described as the oldest, wisest and most drunken of the followers of Dionysus, and was said in Orphic hymns to be the young god's tutor.
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Silenus commonly figures in Roman bas-reliefs of the train of Dionysus, a subject for sarcophagi, embodying the transcendent promises of Dionysian cult.
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Silenus also appears in Emperor Julian the Apostate's satire, The Caesars, where he sits next to the gods and offers up his comments on the various rulers under examination.
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Another feature of the square of Celaenae is that the skin of Marsyas the silenus is hanging there, where it was put, according to local Phrygian legend, after Marsyas had been flayed by Apollo.
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- Any of the minor woodland deities who were companions of Dionysus (similar to the satyrs)
- The chief satyr in the service of Bacchus; father of Dionysus; usually depicted as drunk and jolly and riding a donkey
- In Greek mythology, Silenus (/sau026Au02C8liu02D0nu0259s/; Greek: u03A3u03B5u03B9u03BBu03B7u03BDu03CCu03C2 Seilu0113nos) was a companion and tutor to the wine god Dionysus. He is typically older than the satyrs of the Dionysian retinue (thiasos), and sometimes considerably older, in which case he may be referred to as a Papposilenus...
- Silenus was the offspring of Hermes and Gaea, though some stories say he was the son of Uranus, or Pan, or others still. He was a wise old man who could see far into the past as well as predict the future. He raised Dionysus, teaching that god all he knew. ...
