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👤 Seilenos

  • We use this entity to also capture appearances of the Seilenoi (i.e. in the plural)
  • Alternative names
    Silenos
    Information
    attendant of Dionysos
    Alternative name
    👤 Pyrrhichos (alt. Seilenos)
    Sometimes conflated with
    👤 Maron 👤 Marsyas 👤 Olympos (f. of Marsyas)
    Father of
    👤 Pholos (centaur I) 👥 the Satyrs 👤 Dolion (Mysian)
    Husband of
    👤 Nais (w. of Seilenos)
    Has children with
    👤 Melia (Mysian)
    Eponym of
    🏛️ the Spring of Seilenos (Naxos)
    Enslaved to
    👤 Polyphemos (Cyclops)
    Creates
    🏛️ the Spring of Seilenos (Pyrrhichos)
    Kills
    👤 Encelados (giant)
    Cult sites
    🌍 Naxos (island) 🌍 India 🌍 Elis (city)
    Related Entities
    👤 Aphrodite 👤 Apollo 👤 Ariadne 👥 the Corybantes 👤 Demeter 👤 Dionysos 👤 Encelados (giant) 👤 Poseidon 👤 Zeus 👤 Ganymedes (s. of Tros) 👥 the Giants👤 Heracles 👤 Hermes 🌍 Athens (Attica) 🌍 Naxos (island) 👤 Theseus 👤 Pan (god) 👥 the Muses 👤 Pholos (centaur I) 👤 Polyphemos (Cyclops) 👤 Maron 👤 Marsyas 👤 Odysseus 👤 Olympos (f. of Marsyas) 👤 Seilenos 🌍 Mount Ida (Troad) 🌍 Attica 🌍 Cape Malea (Laconia) 🌍 Mount Olympos (N. Greece) 🌍 Sicily (island) 🌍 Lydia (Asia Minor) 🌍 the Tyrrhenian Sea 🏺 the Wine of Maron 🌍 the Land of the Cyclopes 🌍 Mount Aitna (Sicily) 🌍 India 🌍 Elis (city) 👥 the Tyrrhenian Pirates 👤 Midas 👤 Nais (w. of Seilenos) 👤 Attis 🌍 Pyrrhichos (Laconia) 👤 Pyrrhichos (alt. Seilenos) 👤 Priapos 🏛️ the Spring of Midas (Phrygia)🏛️ the Seat of Seilenos (Athens)🏛️ the Spring of Seilenos (Pyrrhichos)👥 the Nymphs of Mount Ida (Troad) 👥 the Companions of Odysseus 👥 the Satyrs 👤 Hermaphroditos 👤 Sabazios 👤 Cydippe (Naxian) 🏛️ the Spring of Seilenos (Naxos)🌍 River Indos (India) 🌍 Latium (Italy) 👤 Dolion (Mysian) 👤 Melia (Mysian) 👤 Pomona 👤 Vertumnus
    Mentioned by
    📖 Apollodoros, Library 2.5.4📖 Pausanias 1.4.5📖 Pausanias 3.25.3📖 Pausanias 1.23.5📖 Pausanias 6.24.8📖 Homeric Hymn 5 to Aphrodite 256-272📖 Euripides, Cyclops 1-40📖 Euripides, Cyclops 131-174📖 Pausanias 3.25.1-3.25.2📖 Euripides, Cyclops 545-575📖 Euripides, Cyclops 680-709📖 Anonymous, On Unbelievable Stories 17📖 Lucian, Dionysos 1-4📖 Lucian, Dionysos 6📖 Lucian, Parliament of the Gods 4📖 Lucian, Icaromenippus 27📖 Callimachus, Aetia fr. 67 Harder📖 Pindar fr. 156 Snell-Maehler📖 Pindar fr. 157 Snell-Maehler📖 Strabo 10.3.14📖 Strabo 10.3.10📖 Strabo 14.5.29📖 Vergil, Eclogues 6📖 Strabo 12.4.8📖 Ovid, Metamorphoses 14.609-14.653
    Mentioned in Text
    Apollodoros, LibraryPausaniasPindar Homeric Hymn 5 to AphroditeEuripides, CyclopsStraboAnonymous, On Unbelievable StoriesCallimachus, AetiaLucian, DionysosLucian, Parliament of the GodsLucian, IcaromenippusOvid, MetamorphosesVergil, Eclogues
    Mentioned in citation of
    📖 Pindar fr. 156 Snell-Maehler📖 Ps-Alexander, Problemata 111-13 Kapetanaki & Sharples📖 Alexander of Aitolia fr. 9 Lightfoot
    Depictions
    🎨 Wall Paintings from Casa dei Vettii VI 15, 1, Pompeii (PALP r6-i15-p1-space-q)🎨 Wall Paintings from Casa di Achille IX 5, 1-3, Pompeii (PALP r9-i5-p2-space-c)🎨 Wall Paintings from Casa di Achille IX 5, 1-3, Pompeii (PALP r9-i5-p2-space-f)🎨 Wall Painting from Pompeii (MANN 9271)🎨 Wall Painting from Casa del Bracciale d'Oro VI 17, 42, Pompeii (Pompeii 41658)🎨 Attic Red-Figure Volute Krater by the Pronomos Painter (MANN 3240; Beazley 217500)
    Relevant to local traditions reported from
    🌍 Cape Malea (Laconia)
    Commentary
    We use this entity to also capture appearances of the Seilenoi (i.e. in the plural)
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