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  • Uploaded by: Photo of petedrob petedrob
    In album: France 2007
    In Webshots channel: family
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  • Date uploaded: Thu Apr 19 02:12:48 PDT 2007

Silenius, the oldest Satyr, carrying the infant Dionysus (Bacchus). The Sileni were followers of Dionysus. They were drunks, and were usually bald and fat with thick lips and squat noses, and had the legs of a human. Later, 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. A notorious consumer of wine, he was usually drunk and had to be supported by satyrs or carried by a donkey. 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.

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