The mythology of Greece and Rome : with special references to its use in art (1900)
Seemann, Otto, 1825-1901, Bianchi, G. H. (George Henry) · New York : American Book · leaf 150
ER WORLD. 14t otherwise ignoble features, bristling hair, goat-like ears,and a goats tail. Like the Muses, they love music anddancing, their instruments being the syrinx and the flute,together with cymbals and castanets. Like their master,they were passionately addicted to excessive indulgence… … Fig. 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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