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Roman relief of a Satyr offering honeycomb to a herm (which depicts either Silenus or Pan)
1st - 2nd century CE
World Museum Liverpool 59.148.309
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Roman relief of a Satyr offering honeycomb to a herm (which depicts either Silenus or Pan)
1st - 2nd century CE
World Museum Liverpool 59.148.309
Silenus, god of drunkenness and winemaking.
There is this recuring theme of depicting Hermaphroditus with rustic deities, I need to make some deeper research into the meaning behind it but for now have a compilation of them
-Roman frescos from Pompeii Both depict Hermaphroditus, Silenus and a Maenad
-Roman frescos from Pompeii Pan and Hermaphroditus
-Left is a Roman frescos from Pompeii, Right is a 19th century engraving description in wikimedia: Left: Hermaphrodite defending himself against pushy satyr Right: Silenus struggling with Hermaphroditus
-From left to right: Roman frescos from Pompeii; Statues Antiques de l'Europe, Frédéric de Clarac, Vol 4, page 90; Marble statue of Hermaphroditos wrestling with a satyr, Roman copy Some descriptions have this satyr be Silenus
-Statues Antiques de l'Europe, Frédéric de Clarac, Vol 4, page 90
-Satyr and Hermaphroditus, Altes Museum Berlin This is the only one that I like. Hermaphroditus looks happy and the interaction feels playful🥺
-Greek Anthology Book 9 (Anth.Pal.)
-Diodorus Siculus, Library 1-7 (D.S.) I didn't know if I should include this or not but I am putting here for the benefit of the doubt
Antinous always knew he was not quite like the other kids around him. There was something divine in his nature, though he was raised by mortal parents.
Silenus insists that it is because Antinous is one of his many children, but Antinous does not believe him.... Or more precisely, he doesn't really want to!
I made Dionysus's guardian, Silenus!
Armorial Plate: Silenus on an ass, supported by Bacchic revelers, Nicola da Urbino (Italian), ca. 1520–25, from the MET
Go I wish I was there
Roman bronze bust of Silenus (the tutor of Dionysus), originally part of a bronze kline
50 - 125 CE
Metropolitan Museum of Art 55.129.2
