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👤 Seilenos

  • Alternative names:
    Silenos
  • Information:
    attendant of Dionysos
  • Alternative name:
    👤 Pyrrhichos (alt. Seilenos)
  • Sometimes conflated with:
    👤 Maron
  • Father of:
    👤 Pholos 👥 the Satyrs
  • Husband of:
    👤 Nais (w. of Seilenos)
  • Born by:
    👤 Pyrrhichos (alt. Seilenos)
  • Enslaved to:
    👤 Polyphemos (Cyclops)
  • Creates:
    🏛️ the Spring of Seilenos (Pyrrhichos)
  • Kills:
    👤 Encelados (giant)
  • Cult sites:
    🌍 Elis (city) 🌍 India
  • Related Entities:
    🌍 Athens (Attica) 🌍 Attica 🌍 Cape Malea (Laconia) 🌍 Elis (city) 🌍 Malea (Arcadia) 🌍 Mount Aitna (Sicily) 🌍 Mount Ida (Troad) 🌍 Pyrrhichos (Laconia) 🌍 Sicily 🌍 the Land of the Cyclopes 🏛️ the Seat of Seilenos (Athens)🏛️ the Spring of Midas (Phrygia)🏛️ the Spring of Seilenos (Naxos)🏛️ the Spring of Seilenos (Pyrrhichos)🏺 the Wine of Maron 👤 Dionysos 👤 Encelados (giant) 👤 Hermes 👤 Maron 👤 Midas 👤 Nais (w. of Seilenos) 👤 Odysseus 👤 Pholos 👤 Polyphemos (Cyclops) 👤 Pyrrhichos (alt. Seilenos) 👥 the Companions of Odysseus 👥 the Giants👥 the Nymphs of Mount Ida (Troad) 👥 the Satyrs 👥 the Tyrrhenian Pirates
  • Appears in:
    Homeric Hymn 5 to Aphrodite 256-272Anonymous, On Unbelievable Stories 17Apollodoros, Library 2.5.4Euripides, Cyclops 1-40Euripides, Cyclops 131-174Euripides, Cyclops 545-575Euripides, Cyclops 680-709Pausanias 1.23.5Pausanias 1.4.5Pausanias 3.25.1-3.25.2Pausanias 3.25.3Pausanias 6.24.8
  • Mentioned in Text:
    Homeric Hymn 5 to AphroditeAnonymous, On Unbelievable StoriesApollodoros, LibraryEuripides, CyclopsPausanias
  • Commentary:
    We use this entity to also capture appearances of the Seilenoi (i.e. in the plural)
  • Cite as: '👤 Seilenos ', MANTO, https://resource.manto.unh.edu/8189992 [last modified: 01 10 2021]
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