Digital art depicting the satyr Silenus, he is eating with his batr hand at a buffet.
Digital art depicting the satyr Silenus, he is thinking while being clearly drunk.
Silenus being drunk AF before giving Midas the power to turn everything into gold which turn out great has we all know (<- ironic)
#silenus #satyr
FRESCO OF DIONYSUS AND SILENUS, 30 BCE. THE BRITISH MUSEUM Bought in 1899, this piece of wall fresco comes from one of the about 30 ancient Roman villas found at Boscoreale near Pompeii. Excavations took place in the late C19 and early C20 on private land, with the result that many splendid frescoes like the ones from the villa of P. Fannius Synistor ended up sold to museums around the world. We don't know which villa this fresco comes from. It shows Dionysus looking rather shocked. He's naked but for a crown of vine leaves and a light purple garment which seems to have a sleeve on his forearm but which otherwise just falls over his knee. He has the pale skin usually reserved for women, a hint of his ability to transcend sex, and carries a thyrsus in one hand, while the other pours a jug of wine out to calm the thirst of his little panther, at left. At right, the shorter and darker figure of Silenus holds a lyre and wears red drapery around his waist. He looks annoyed. Perhaps he wanted the panther's wine for himself.
#FrescoFriday gives us a startled #Dionysus and a far from gruntled #Silenus. The god is pouring out some wine for his panther, and Silenus seems to be commenting "Waste of good wine, if you ask me". From the #BritishMuseum and originally in a villa at #Boscoreale, 30 BCE. #AncientBluesky 🏺
CHILD'S SARCOPHAGUS A LENÒS, C3 CE. BRITISH MUSEUM This very small "tub-shaped" sarcophagus was acquired from the earls of Carlisle in 1996. Its lid is a fake, a pastiche with a modern bed (not really a kline despite its rounded raised back and sides) supporting a possibly Claudian sleeping Silenus based on a model from the C2 BCE. The sarcophagus features two main scenes framed by two pairs of lion heads holding heavy rings. On the front of the casket at the centre Bacchus is supported by a young follower, while a maenad runs ahead with a panther. On the back is a scene of three boys pressing grapes in a vat. At the ends are shown groups of centaurs and maenads playing horns, lyres and flutes, and Pan.
For #SarcophagusSaturday we're looking at a strange but coherent #pastiche in the #BritishMuseum in #London. This sad little C3 CE child's #sarcophagus with a #Dionysiac #thiasos and two lion heads has a modern lid, into which the C1 CE figure of a sleeping #Silenus has been set. #AncientBluesky 🏺
Today's #WIPSnips? #Trail. I chose a long snippet, because #Silenus doesn't deserve to have the stage pulled out from under him. He joins a scene where Erik's reality truly steps from the shadows, unveiling itself as something... different.
#UrbanFantasy #Supernatural #Thriller #BYPMW #OftDTftW
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Today's #WIPSnips is #hibernate, so I whipped out the first book and its one instance of the word #hibernation. Here, #Silenus steals food from #Erik and his brother in a diner while they wind down, trying to decompress after a funeral and a fight.
#UrbanFantasy #Supernatural #Thriller #BYPMW
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🪷 #Antinous #Satyrday! The 1st Saturday of the month is sacred to #Silenus and #Satyrs. This dancing #satyr thrillingly twirls his throbbing #thyrsus at the Naples Italy Archaeological Museum #GabinettoSegreto (Secret Cabinet).🪷
🪷 #Antinous #Satyrday! The 1st Saturday of the month is sacred to #Silenus and #Satyrs. Sturdy #satyr incense tripod with ithyphallic #satyrs proving their prowess at the Naples Italy Archaeological Museum's #GabinettoSegreto (Secret Cabinet) 🪷
🪷 #Antinous #Satyrday: The first Saturday of the month sacred to #Silenus and #Satyrs. Vintage beefcake #Nijinsky -esque #faun / #satyr with '50s posing strap (and pouty pastel lipstick) by #GeorgeQuaintance, who is a saint of #Antinous. 🪷
🪷 #Kipper cards are popular in Germany, #Lenormand cards are loved Europe-wide and #Sibilla cards favored in Italy. #Dionysus is shown alongside #Silenus god of wine and revelry in this image from "l'Oracolo della Sibilla", a European oracle card deck created by Italian artist Giorgio Tavaglioni.🪷
🪷 #Antinous #Satyrday: The first Saturday of the month is sacred to #Silenus and #Satyrs. #satyrsaturday: Seven Silly Sassy Salacious Satiated Skanky Slatternly Saturday #Satyrs Seeking Some Sordidness & So On. 🪷
🪷 #Antinous #Satyrday! The 1st Saturday of the month is sacred to #Silenus and #Satyrs. Dancing #Satyr Group, 500–475 BC, Boetia Greece. Cleveland Museum of Art. 🪷
🪷 #Antinous #Satyrday! The 1st Saturday of the month is sacred to #Silenus and #Satyrs. This dancing #satyr thrillingly twirls his throbbing #thyrsus at Naples National Archaeological Museum's #GabinettoSegreto (Secret Cabinet). 🪷
🪷 #Antinous #Satyrday: The first Saturday of the month sacred to #Silenus & Satyrs. Vintage beefcake #Nijinsky -esque #faun / satyr with '50s posing strap (and pouty pastel lipstick) by #GeorgeQuaintance, who is a saint of #Antinoos. 🪷
Today's video is an #antimasque #song from the #Masque of Flowers, 1614. A contest between #Silenus (god of #wine) and #Kawasha (god of #tobacco).
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDiC...
#earlymusic #earlymodern #17thCentury #courtstudies #intoxicants #mythology
