The mythology of Greece and Rome : with special reference to its use in art (1894)
Seemann, Otto, 1825-1901, Bianchi, George Henry · New York : Harper & Bros. · leaf 150
WOULD. 147 otherwise ignoble features, bristling hair, goat-like cars,and !i sjjoats tail. Like the Muses, they love music anddiiuciug, their instruments being the syrinx and the Hute,together with cymbals and castanets. Like their master,they were passionately addicted to excessive indulgence… … Pig. 42.—Head of Satyr. Munich Sculpture Gallery. The satyrs were not an uncommon subject of representation amongancient artists. The conception was based on the original hideoushalf-man, half-animal type; and in art, as well as in poetry, theblunt nose, the pointed ears, and the goats tail form…
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