Looking for sentences and phrases with the word satyric? Here are some examples.
Sentence Examples
We have eleven titles and some brief fragments, notably from the satyric Omphale.
The image of the satyr turns him into a buffoon, a lubricious figure, a familiar character in satyric dramas.
His many treatises included illustrations of the tragic, comic and satyric stages, based on Vitruvius's innovative ideas regarding the vanishing point.
Examples from Classical Literature
At the same time special pieces for the traditional tragic chorus were retained, and these received the name of satyric dramas.
The festival culminated in the production of tragedies, comedies and satyric dramas in the great theatre of Dionysus.
But the plot of this satyric or Silenic drama has been detected, and you must not allow him, Agathon, to set us at variance.
And here it will be proper to give the definition of the Greek satyric poem from Casaubon, before I leave this subject.
The Cyclops, of uncertain date, is the only extant example of a satyric drama.
He was still grinning, but now the grin had become set, satyric, hideous.
Suggestions of the animal dance occur in the satyric plays of the Greeks.
Satyros' name gives some of his game away, but rather than indulging his own satyric appetites, his role is restricted to encouraging and facilitating those of his master.
The iambic measure then replaced the trochaic tetrameter, which was originally employed when the poetry was of the Satyric order, and had greater affinities with dancing.
