The thyrsus, which is typically associated with Maenads, is a staff comprising both pine cone and fennel often depicted as being carried by these creatures. One of them told Midas that the best thing is for a man never to be born, and if he must be born, to die soon. Besides Silenus, their number included one who was flayed alive by Apollo after lo
The thyrsus, which is typically associated with Maenads, is a staff comprising both pine cone and fennel often depicted as being carried by these creatures. One of them told Midas that the best thing is for a man never to be born, and if he must be born, to die soon. Besides Silenus, their number included one who was flayed alive by Apollo after losing a music contest, Marsyas. The creator of the race famously chased the nymph Syrinx until she turned herself into a bundle of reeds. Depicted as drunken, sex-crazed figures, for 10 points, name these woodland creatures with goat features descended from Pan.
The thyrsus, which is typically associated with Maenads, is a staff comprising both pine cone and fennel often depicted as being carried by these creatures.
{satyrs} (grudgingly accept “{fauns}”)