- mythology,
Silenus (/saɪˈliːnəs/;
Ancient Gr****: Σειληνός, romanized:
Seilēnós, IPA: [seːlɛːnós]) was a
companion and
tutor to the wine god Dionysus....
- also
known as a
silenus or
silenos (‹See Tfd›Gr****: σειληνός, translit.
seilēnós [seːlɛːnós]), and
sileni (plural), is a male
nature spirit with ears and...
- XI. 351-4),
appears to the wine god ‘in the
horned shape of a
shaggy Seilenos…’
holding a
fennel staff. His staff, however, is not a
thyrsus made from...
-
inscription ΒΕΡΓΑΙΟΥ
round quadripartite square, 400 - 350 BC. Head of
bearded Seilenos or satyr. Reverse:
inscription ΒΕΡΓ
beneath fish.
Pistiros Thracians Antiphanes...
- (daimones) in the
train of the god Dionysus. They were sons of the
elder Seilenos (Silenus) and the
fathers of the
tribes of
Satyrs and
Oreiades (mountain...
