Silenus in a sentence

The Phrygian King Midas was eager to learn from Silenus and caught the old man by lacing a fountain from which Silenus often drank.

Another story was that Silenus had been captured by two shepherds, and regaled them with wondrous tales.

Around the same time Vienna Secession artist Gustav Klimt uses the irreverent, chubby-faced Silenus as a motif in several works to represent "buried instinctual forces".

As Silenus fell asleep, the king's servants seized and took him to their master.

Erasmus lists several Sileni and then questions whether Christ is the most noticeable Silenus of them all.

Evolution of the character Papposilenoi on an Attic red-figure bell-krater attributed to Polion, c. 420 BC The original Silenus resembled a folkloric man of the forest with the ears of a horse and sometimes also the tail and legs of a horse.

Heinz-Günther Nesselrath has argued that these and other details of Silenus' story are meant as imitation and exaggeration of the Atlantis story, for the purpose of exposing Plato's ideas to ridicule.

H. transl.) Both Socrates and Aesop were sometimes described as having a physical appearance like that of Silenus, with broad flat faces and fat bellies.

In 1884 Thomas Woolner published a long narrative poem about Silenus.

Kerenyi, p. 177. When intoxicated, Silenus was said to possess special knowledge and the power of prophecy.

Later still, the plural "sileni" went out of use and the only references were to one individual named Silenus, the teacher and faithful companion of the wine-god Dionysus.

Midas recognized him and treated him hospitably, entertaining him for ten days and nights with politeness, while Silenus delighted Midas and his friends with stories and songs.

Silenus appears as an amorous satyr in the children's story "Odysseus in the Serpent Maze," by Jane Yolen and Robert J. Harris.

Silenus describes the Meropids, a race of men who grow to twice normal size, and inhabit two cities on the island of Meropis: Eusebes ( Εὐσεβής main, "Pious-town") and Machimos ( Μάχιμος main, "Fighting-town").

Silenus refers to the satyrs as his children during the play.

Silenus was described as the oldest, wisest and most drunken of the followers of Dionysus, and was said in Orphic hymns to be the young god's tutor.

The old satyr had been drinking wine and wandered away drunk, to be found by some Phrygian peasants who carried him to their king, Midas (alternatively, Silenus passed out in Midas' rose garden).