silenus

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1. silenus - Noun

2. Silenus - Proper noun

Meaning

See Wanderoo.

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For many, as Cranton tells us, and those very wise men, not now but long ago, have deplored the condition of human nature, esteeming life a punishment, and to be born a man the highest pitch of calamity; this, Aristotle tells us, Silenus declared when he was brought captive to Midas. Plutarch

Heinz-Günther Nesselrath has argued that these and other details of Silenus' story are meant as imitation and exaggeration of the Atlantis story, for the purpose of exposing Plato's ideas to ridicule. Source: Internet

Around the same time Vienna Secession artist Gustav Klimt uses the irreverent, chubby-faced Silenus as a motif in several works to represent "buried instinctual forces". Source: Internet

Another story was that Silenus had been captured by two shepherds, and regaled them with wondrous tales. Source: Internet

Evolution of the character Papposilenoi on an Attic red-figure bell-krater attributed to Polion, c. 420 BC The original Silenus resembled a folkloric man of the forest with the ears of a horse and sometimes also the tail and legs of a horse. Source: Internet

As Silenus fell asleep, the king's servants seized and took him to their master. Source: Internet

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