LEMNIAN SATYR (Satyros Lemnios) - Creature of Greek Legend (original) (raw)

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Greek Name

Σατυρος Λεμνιος

Transliteration

Satyros Lemnios

Latin Spelling

Satyrus Lemnius

Translation

Satyr of Lemnos

THE SATYROS LEMNIOS (Lemnian Satyr) was a creature reputed to have consorted with a certain Lemnian woman--the mother of an aquaintance of the Greek writer Philostratos.

PARENTS

Nowhere stated

CLASSICAL LITERATURE QUOTES

Philostratus, Life of Apollonius of Tyana 4. 27 (trans. Conybeare) (Greek biography C1st to C2nd A.D.) :
"But we must not disbelieve that Satyroi (Satyrs) both exist and are susceptible to the passion of love; for I [the author Philostratos] knew a youth of my own age in Lemnos whose mother was said to be visited by a Satyros, as he well might to judge by this story; for he was represented as wearing on his back a fawn-skin that exactly fitted him, the front paws of which were drawn around his neck and fastened over his chest. But I must not go further into this subject; but, anyhow, credit is due as much to experience of facts as it is to myself."