The creator of the race famously chased the nymph Syrinx until she turned herself into a bundle of reeds.
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}”)