In the earlier rendition, Titian depicts Silenus in the background, asleep and slumped over. |
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Satyrs and nymphs gambol about him harmlessly, and Silenus is a cheerful old soak. |
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The entrance to the ecstatic Dionysiac world in the Villa of the Mysteries is marked by Silenus playing a cithara at the edge of a rocky landscape. |
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His characteristics evoke those of Silenus or the portrait of an idealized philosopher. |
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The hitherto silent island of Naxos has startlingly become populated with fauns and maenads and sileni and old Silenus himself swaying inebriate on his donkey. |
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The gadroons on the underside look very Iranian but the grinning bearded Silenus mask that takes the place of the boss in comparable Iranian pieces is strictly Greek. |
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A statue of Marsyas as a wise old silenus embodied this positive version of Marsyas in the Forum Romanum. |
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