Satyr
c. 700 BCE – 400 CEattested
Arcadia and the Greek world
- Greek
Half-human, half-goat companions of Dionysus, embodying everything the city tried to leave behind: drunkenness, lust and the uncivil outdoors. They had their own dramatic genre.
Known for
- companions of Dionysus
- the satyr play
- wildness personified
Dates are estimates. A great deal of what this atlas covers is only datable to within a century.