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Satyr
Satyrs (aka silens) are figures from Greek mythology who were followers of the god of wine Dionysos. Satyrs were often guilty of excessive sexual desires and overindulgence of wine. Men with a horse's tail and ears or men with goat legs...

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Satyr Mask
A Roman satyr mask in marble. 2nd century CE. (Capitoline Museums, Rome)

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Satyr Marble Bust
A detail of a marble satyr, c. 150 BCE. (Agora Museum, Athens)

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Satyr Kantharos
An Attic kantharos (drinking cup) with a head of a satyr, c. 420 BCE.

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Drunken Satyr
Marble statue known as the Barberini Faun or Drunken Satyr, copy by a Hellenistic sculptor of the Pergamene school of a bronze original, circa 220 BCE. (Glyptothek, Munich)

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Satyr
Satyr, Roman copy of a work by Praxitels (370-360 BCE), Smyrna (Asia Minor), Bath of Diana, marble. Musée du Cinquantenaire (Brussels, Belgium). Made with ReMake and ReCap Pro from AutoDesk. For more updates, please consider to follow...

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Dionysos and Satyr
Dionysos and Satyr; A Roman copy of 4th century BCE Greek original; 2nd century CE; Palazzo Altemps in Rome, Italy

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Drunken Satyr from the Villa of the Papyri, Herculaneum
The bronze statue portrays a drunken elderly Satyr, lying on a rock covered with a lionskin. It adorned the swimming pool in the middle of the peristilium (four-sided colonnade with a central garden) of the Villa of the Papyri, a luxury villa...

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Red-Figure Satyr
The tondo of a red-figure kylix depicting a Satyr riding a donkey. c. 510 BCE. (Agora Museum, Athens)

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Statue of a Satyr from Sabina
This marble statue came from the Villa at Monte Calvo in Sabina, Italy. In the villa, the boyish satyr was part of a fountain, for the jug is pierced for receiving a water pipe. The Berlin statue belongs to a series of copies, which go back...