SATYROS LEMNIOS
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."
SOURCES
GREEK
- Philostratus, Life of Apollonius of Tyana - Greek Biography C2nd A.D.
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