Editing Satyr (section)

==In archaic and classical Greece==
===Physical appearance===
[[File:Satyr goat Met L.2008.51.jpg|thumb|The goat on the left has a short goat tail, but the Greek satyr on the right has a long horse tail, not a goat tail (Attic ceramic, 520 BC).]]

In archaic and classical Greek art, satyrs are shown with the ears and tails of horses.{{sfn|West|2007|page=293}}{{sfn|Hansen|2004|page=279}}{{sfn|Riggs|2014|page=233}} They walk upright on two legs, like human beings.{{sfn|Hansen|2004|page=279}} They are usually shown with bestial faces, snub noses, and manelike hair.{{sfn|Hansen|2004|page=279}} They are often bearded and balding.{{sfn|Fracer|2014|page=326}} Like other Greek nature spirits, satyrs are always depicted nude.{{sfn|Hansen|2004|page=279}} Sometimes they also have the legs of horses,{{sfn|West|2007|page=293}}{{sfn|Hansen|2004|page=279}}{{sfn|Riggs|2014|page=233}}{{sfn|Hansen|2017|page=168}}<ref>Knowles, Elizabeth. The Oxford dictionary of phrase and fable. Oxford University Press,2000.</ref> but, in ancient art, including both vase paintings and in sculptures, satyrs are most often represented with human legs and feet.{{sfn|Riggs|2014|page=233}}{{sfn|March|2014|page=435}}

Satyrs' genitals are always depicted as either erect or at least extremely large.{{sfn|Hansen|2004|page=279}}{{sfn|March|2014|page=435}}{{sfn|Henrichs|1987|page=97}}{{sfn|Stafford|2011|pages=345–346}} Their erect phalli represent their association with wine and women, which were the two major aspects of their god [[Dionysus]]'s domain.{{sfn|Henrichs|1987|page=97}} In some cases, satyrs are portrayed as very human-like, lacking manes or tails.{{sfn|Hansen|2004|page=279}} As time progressed, this became the general trend, with satyrs losing aspects of their original bestial appearance over the course of Greek history and gradually becoming more and more human.{{sfn|Hansen|2004|page=279}} In the most common depictions, satyrs are shown drinking wine, dancing, playing flutes, chasing nymphs, or consorting with Dionysus.{{sfn|Hansen|2004|page=279}}{{sfn|March|2014|page=435}}{{sfn|Fracer|2014|pages=325–328}} They are also frequently shown masturbating or copulating with animals.{{sfn|March|2014|pages=435–436}}{{sfn|Stafford|2011|pages=344–364}} In scenes from ceramic paintings depicting satyrs engaging in orgies, satyrs standing by and watching are often shown masturbating.{{sfn|Stafford|2011|pages=346–347}}

===Behavior===
[[File:Crátera ática de columnas (M.A.N. 1999-99-65) 02.jpg|thumb|upright=0.8|left|Detail of a [[krater]], dating to {{circa}} 560–550 BC, showing a satyr [[Masturbation|masturbating]]. Athenian [[satyr play]]s were characterized as "a genre of 'hard-ons.'"{{sfn|Shaw|2014|page=5}}]]

One of the earliest written sources for satyrs is the ''[[Catalogue of Women]]'', which is attributed to the [[Boeotia]]n poet [[Hesiod]]. Here satyrs are born alongside the [[nymph]]s and [[Kouretes]] and are described as "good-for-nothing, prankster Satyrs".{{sfn|West|2007|page=293}}{{sfn|Kerényi|1951|page=179}} Satyrs were widely seen as mischief-makers who routinely played tricks on people and interfered with their personal property.{{sfn|West|2007|page=293}} They had insatiable sexual appetites and often sought to seduce or ravish both nymphs and mortal women alike,{{sfn|Riggs|2014|page=233}}{{sfn|Kerényi|1951|page=179}}{{sfn|Roman|Roman|2010|page=432}}{{sfn|Room|1983|pages=270–271}} though these attempts were not always successful.{{sfn|Riggs|2014|page=233}} Satyrs almost always appear in artwork alongside female companions of some variety.{{sfn|Henrichs|1987|pages=100–101}} These female companions may be clothed or nude, but the satyrs always treat them as mere sexual objects.{{sfn|Henrichs|1987|page=100}} A single elderly satyr named [[Silenus]] was believed to have been the tutor of Dionysus on [[Nysa (mythology)|Mount Nysa]].{{sfn|Riggs|2014|page=233}}{{sfn|Fracer|2014|page=326}}{{sfn|Kerényi|1951|page=179}} After Dionysus grew to maturity, Silenus became one of his most devout followers, remaining perpetually drunk.{{sfn|Riggs|2014|pages=233–234}}

This image was reflected in the classical Athenian [[satyr play]].{{sfn|West|2007|page=293}}{{sfn|Shaw|2014|page=5}} Satyr plays were a genre of plays defined by the fact that their [[Greek chorus|choruses]] were invariably made up of satyrs.{{sfn|Shaw|2014|page=5}}{{sfn|Hansen|2004|page=279}}{{sfn|March|2014|page=436}}{{sfn|Slenders|2015|page=156}} These satyrs are always led by Silenus, who is their "father".{{sfn|Slenders|2015|page=156}} According to Carl A. Shaw, the chorus of satyrs in a satyr play were "always trying to get a laugh with their animalistic, playfully rowdy, and, above all, sexual behavior."{{sfn|Shaw|2014|page=5}} The satyrs play an important role in driving the plot of the production, without any of them actually being the lead role, which was always reserved for a god or tragic hero.{{sfn|Slenders|2015|page=159}} Many satyr plays are named for the activity in which the chorus of satyrs engage during the production, such as {{langx|grc|Δικτυουλκοί|Diktyoulkoí|Net-Haulers|label=none}}, {{langx|grc|Θεωροὶ ἢ Ἰσθμιασταί|Theōroì ē Isthmiastaí|Spectators or Competitors at the Isthmian Games|label=none}}, and {{langx|grc|Ἰχνευταί|Ichneutaí|Searchers|label=none}}.{{sfn|Slenders|2015|page=159}} Like tragedies, but unlike [[Ancient Greek comedy|comedies]], satyr plays were set in the distant past and dealt with mythological subjects.{{sfn|Slenders|2015|pages=155–156}} The third or second-century BC philosopher [[Demetrius of Phalerum]] famously characterized the satiric genre in his treatise ''De Elocutione'' as the middle ground between tragedy and comedy: a "playful tragedy" ({{langx|grc|τραγῳδία παίζουσα|tragōdía paízdousa|label=none}}).{{sfn|Shaw|2014|page=14}}{{sfn|Slenders|2015|page=156}}
[[File:Komos Douris BM E768.jpg|thumb|upright=1|A bald, bearded, horse-tailed satyr balances a winecup on his penis, on an Attic red-figure ''[[psykter]]'' ({{circa}} 500–490 BC)]]
The only complete extant satyr play is [[Euripides]]'s ''[[Cyclops (play)|Cyclops]]'',{{sfn|Riggs|2014|page=234}}{{sfn|Roman|Roman|2010|page=432}}{{sfn|March|2014|page=436}}{{sfn|Slenders|2015|page=155}} which is a [[burlesque]] of a scene from the eighth-century BC epic poem, the ''[[Odyssey]]'', in which [[Odysseus]] is captured by the [[Cyclopes|Cyclops]] [[Polyphemus]] in a cave.{{sfn|Riggs|2014|page=234}} In the play, Polyphemus has captured a tribe of satyrs led by Silenus, who is described as their "Father", and forced them to work for him as his slaves.{{sfn|Riggs|2014|page=233}} After Polyphemus captures Odysseus, Silenus attempts to play Odysseus and Polyphemus off each other for his own benefit, primarily by tricking them into giving him wine.{{sfn|Riggs|2014|page=233}} As in the original scene, Odysseus manages to blind Polyphemus and escape.{{sfn|Riggs|2014|page=233}} Approximately 450 lines, most of which are fragmentary, have survived of [[Sophocles]]'s satyr play ''[[Ichneutae]]'' (''Tracking Satyrs'').{{sfn|Slenders|2015|page=155}} In the surviving portion of the play, the chorus of satyrs are described as "lying on the ground like [[hedgehog]]s in a bush, or like a monkey bending over to [[Flatulence|fart]] at someone."{{sfn|Shaw|2014|page=15}} The character Cyllene scolds them: "All you [satyrs] do you do for the sake of fun!... Cease to expand your smooth phallus with delight. You should not make silly jokes and chatter, so that the gods will make you shed tears to make me laugh."{{sfn|Shaw|2014|page=5}}

In [[Dionysius I of Syracuse]]'s fragmentary satyr play ''Limos'' (''Starvation''), Silenus attempts to give the hero [[Heracles]] an [[enema]].{{sfn|Shaw|2014|page=15}} A number of vase paintings depict scenes from satyr plays, including the Pronomos Vase, which depicts the entire cast of a victorious satyr play, dressed in costume, wearing shaggy leggings, erect phalli, and horse tails.{{sfn|March|2014|page=436}} The genre's reputation for crude humor is alluded to in other texts as well.{{sfn|Shaw|2014|pages=1, 5}} In [[Aristophanes]]'s comedy ''[[Thesmophoriazusae]]'', the tragic poet [[Agathon]] declares that a dramatist must be able to adopt the ''[[persona]]e'' of his characters in order to successfully portray them on stage.{{sfn|Shaw|2014|page=1}} In lines 157–158, Euripides's unnamed relative retorts: "Well, let me know when you're writing satyr plays; I'll get behind you with my hard-on and show you how."{{sfn|Shaw|2014|page=1}} This is the only extant reference to the genre of satyr plays from a work of ancient Greek comedy{{sfn|Shaw|2014|page=1}} and, according to Shaw, it effectively characterizes satyr plays as "a genre of 'hard-ons.'"{{sfn|Shaw|2014|page=5}}
[[File:Penelope Painter ARV 1301 7 satyr swinging a woman - satyr escorting the Basilinna (02).jpg|left|thumb|254x254px|Satyr escorting the ''[[Basilinna]]'' (Queen), Attic red figure ''[[skyphos]]''. {{Circa|440 BC}}]]
In spite of their bawdy behavior, however, satyrs were still revered as semi-divine beings and companions of the god Dionysus.{{sfn|Shaw|2014|page=18}} They were thought to possess their own kind of wisdom that was useful to humans if they could be convinced to share it.{{sfn|West|2007|page=293}}{{sfn|Shaw|2014|page=18}} In [[Plato]]'s ''[[Symposium (Plato)|Symposium]]'', [[Alcibiades]] praises [[Socrates]] by comparing him to the famous satyr Marsyas.{{sfn|Shaw|2014|page=17}} He resembles him physically, since he is balding and has a snub-nose,{{sfn|Shaw|2014|page=17}} but Alcibiades contends that he resembles him mentally as well, because he is "insulting and abusive", in possession of irresistible charm, "erotically inclined to beautiful people", and "acts as if he knows nothing".{{sfn|Shaw|2014|pages=17–18}} Alcibiades concludes that Socrates's role as a philosopher is similar to that of the paternal satyr [[Silenus]], because, at first, his questions seem ridiculous and laughable, but, upon closer inspection, they are revealed to be filled with much wisdom.{{sfn|Shaw|2014|page=18}} One story, mentioned by [[Herodotus]] in his ''[[Histories (Herodotus)|Histories]]'' and in a fragment by [[Aristotle]], recounts that [[Midas|King Midas]] once captured a silenus, who provided him with wise philosophical advice.{{sfn|West|2007|page=293}}

===Mythology===
[[File:Mirone (da), Atena e Marsia, copia romana da originale del 450 ac.ca 02.JPG|thumb|upright=1.2|Roman marble copy of [[Myron]]'s bronze sculptural group ''Athena and Marsyas'', which was originally created around 440 BC{{sfn|Poehlmann|2017|page=330}}]]

According to classicist [[William Hansen (classicist)|William Hansen]], although satyrs were popular in classical art, they rarely appear in surviving mythological accounts.{{sfn|Hansen|2004|page=280}} Different classical sources present conflicting accounts of satyrs' origins.{{sfn|Hansen|2004|pages=279–280}} According to a fragment from the Hesiodic ''[[Catalogue of Women]]'', satyrs are sons of the five granddaughters of [[Phoroneus]] and therefore siblings of the [[Oread]]s and the [[Kouretes]].{{sfn|West|2007|page=293}}{{sfn|Hansen|2004|page=279}}{{sfn|Kerényi|1951|page=179}} The satyr [[Marsyas]], however, is described by mythographers as the son of either Olympos or Oiagros.{{sfn|Hansen|2004|page=280}} Hansen observes that "there may be more than one way to produce a satyr, as there is to produce a [[Cyclopes|Cyclops]] or a [[centaur]]."{{sfn|Hansen|2004|page=280}} The classical Greeks recognized that satyrs obviously could not self-reproduce since there were no female satyrs,{{sfn|Hansen|2004|page=280}} but they seem to have been unsure whether satyrs were mortal or immortal.{{sfn|Hansen|2004|page=280}}

Rather than appearing ''en masse'' as in satyr-plays, when satyrs appear in myths it is usually in the form of a single, famous character.{{sfn|Hansen|2004|page=280}} The comic playwright [[Melanippides|Melanippides of Melos]] ({{circa}} 480–430 BC) tells the story in his lost comedy ''Marsyas'' of how, after inventing the ''[[aulos]]'', the goddess [[Athena]] looked in the mirror while she was playing it.{{sfn|Poehlmann|2017|page=330}} She saw how blowing into it puffed up her cheeks and made her look silly, so she threw the aulos away and cursed it so that whoever picked it up would meet an awful death.{{sfn|Poehlmann|2017|page=330}} The aulos was picked up by the satyr Marsyas,{{sfn|Poehlmann|2017|page=330}} who challenged [[Apollo]] to a musical contest.{{sfn|Hansen|2004|page=280}} They both agreed beforehand that whoever won would be allowed to do whatever he wanted to the loser.{{sfn|Hansen|2004|page=280}} Marsyas played the aulos and Apollo played the lyre.{{sfn|Hansen|2004|page=280}} Apollo turned his lyre upside-down and played it.{{sfn|Hansen|2004|page=280}} He asked Marsyas to do the same with his instrument.{{sfn|Hansen|2004|page=280}} Since he could not, Apollo was deemed to victor.{{sfn|Hansen|2004|page=280}} Apollo hung Marsyas from a pine tree and [[Flaying|flayed]] him alive to punish him for his [[hubris]] in daring to challenge one of the gods.{{sfn|Hansen|2004|page=280}} Later, this story became accepted as canonical{{sfn|Poehlmann|2017|page=330}} and the Athenian sculptor [[Myron]] created a group of bronze sculptures based on it, which was installed before the western front of the [[Parthenon]] in around 440 BC.{{sfn|Poehlmann|2017|page=330}} Surviving retellings of the legend are found in the ''[[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Library]]'' of Pseudo-Apollodorus, [[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]]'s ''Guide to Greece'', and the ''[[Fabulae]]'' of Pseudo-Hyginus.<ref>Pseudo-Apollodorus, ''[[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Library]]'' [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022%3Atext%3DLibrary%3Abook%3D1%3Achapter%3D4%3Asection%3D2 1.4.2]; [[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]], ''Guide to Greece'' [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0160%3Abook%3D10%3Achapter%3D30%3Asection%3D9 10.30.9]; Pseudo-Hyginus, ''[[Fabulae]]'' 165</ref>{{sfn|Hansen|2004|page=280}}

In a myth referenced in multiple classical texts, including the ''[[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Bibliotheke]]'' of Pseudo-Apollodorus and the ''[[Fabulae]]'' of Pseudo-Hyginus, a satyr from [[Argos, Peloponnese|Argos]] once attempted to rape the nymph [[Amymone]], but she called to the god [[Poseidon]] for help and he launched his trident at the satyr, knocking him to the ground.{{sfn|Ogden|2013|page=170}}{{sfn|Kandoleon|1995|page=159}}{{sfn|Mitchell|2009|page=218}} This myth may have originated from [[Aeschylus]]'s lost satyr play ''Amymone''.{{sfn|Ogden|2013|page=170}}{{sfn|Mitchell|2009|page=218}}{{sfn|Matheson|1995|pages=260–261}} Scenes of one or more satyrs chasing Amymone became a common trope in Greek vase paintings starting in the late fifth century BC.{{sfn|Mitchell|2009|page=218}}{{sfn|Matheson|1995|page=260}} Among the earliest depictions of the scene come from a [[bell krater]] in the style of the Peleus Painter from Syracuse (PEM 10, pl. 155) and a bell krater in the style of the [[Dinos Painter]] from Vienna (DM 7).{{sfn|Matheson|1995|page=260}}

According to one account, Satyrus was one of the many sons of Dionysus and the [[Bithynia]]n nymph [[Nicaea (mythology)|Nicaea]], born after Dionysus tricked Nicaea into getting drunk and raped her as she laid unconscious.<ref>[[Nonnus]], ''[[Dionysiaca]]'' [https://archive.org/details/dionysiaca02nonnuoft/page/20/mode/2up?view=theater 16.244–280]; [[Memnon of Heraclea]], ''History of Heraclea'' book 15, as epitomized by Patriarch [[Photius I of Constantinople]] in his ''[[Bibliotheca (Photius)|Myriobiblon]]'' [https://www.tertullian.org/fathers/photius_copyright/photius_06bibliotheca.htm 223.28]</ref>

=== List of Satyrs <!-- this part of the article doesn't seem to be well-suited to even be present here, considering nearly all of the names listed are from a single post-classical text, which is known for having inaccuracies to its own source material and characters that seem to be fabricated for purely narrative purposes. This could be replaced by a section specifically on the satyrs of the Dionysiaca, and moved much lower on the page. It would be far less out-of-place and misleading. -->===
{| class="wikitable"
!Name
!Text
!Notes
|-
|[[Ampelos|Ampelus]]
|[[nonnus|Nonnus']] [[Dionysiaca]], [[Ovid]]
|young lover of [[Dionysus]]/[[Bacchus]], contested in footrunning<ref>Nonnus, ''Dionysiaca'' 10.400 & 12.190</ref> and swimming, killed by [[Selene]] for challenging her, [[Dionysus]] turned him into a star or the grape vine.
|-
|[[Astraeus (mythology)|Astraeus]]
|[[Nonnus]], [[Dionysiaca]]
|son of Silenus and brother of Leneus and Maron;<ref name=":1">[[Nonnus]], ''[[Dionysiaca]]'' 14.99</ref> chief of the satyrs who came to join Dionysus in the Indian War<ref>Nonnus, ''Dionysiaca'' 17.196 & 29.257</ref>
|-
|[[Babys (mythology)|Babys]]
|[[Plutarch]], ''[[Moralia]]''
|brother of Marsyas, he challenged [[Apollo]] to a music contest and lost.
|-
|[[Cissus (mythology)|Cissus]]
|[[Nonnus]], [[Dionysiaca]]
|turned into an ivy plant; contested in footrunning with [[Ampelos|Ampelus]]<ref>Nonnus, ''Dionysiaca'' 10.400 & 12.190</ref>
|-
|[[Gemon]]
|[[Nonnus]], [[Dionysiaca]]
|one of the leaders of the satyrs who joined the army of Dionysus in his campaign against India<ref name=":02">Nonnus, ''Dionysiaca'' 14.108</ref>
|-
|[[Hypsicerus]]
|[[Nonnus]], [[Dionysiaca]]
|one of the leaders of the satyrs who joined the army of Dionysus in his campaign against India;<ref name=":07">Nonnus, ''Dionysiaca'' 14.106</ref> character is likely a fabrication of Nonnus' (name translates to "tall-horn")
|-
|[[Iobacchus]]
|[[Nonnus]], [[Dionysiaca]]
|<ref>Nonnus, ''Dionysiaca'' 11.5, 14.286</ref>
|-
|[[Lamis]]
|[[Nonnus]], [[Dionysiaca]]
|one of the leaders of the satyrs who joined the army of Dionysus in his campaign against India<ref name=":04">Nonnus, ''Dionysiaca'' 14.110</ref>
|-
|[[Leneus]]
|[[Nonnus]], [[Dionysiaca]]
|son of Silenus and brother of Astraeus and Maron;<ref name=":1" /> a satyr who contested in footrunning with Ampelus<ref>Nonnus, ''Dionysiaca'' 10.400</ref>
|-
|[[Lenobius]]
|[[Nonnus]], [[Dionysiaca]]
|one of the leaders of the satyrs who joined the army of Dionysus in his campaign against India<ref name=":06">Nonnus, ''Dionysiaca'' 14.111</ref>
|-
|[[Lycon (mythology)|Lycon]]
|[[Nonnus]], [[Dionysiaca]]
|one of the leaders of the satyrs who joined the army of Dionysus in his campaign against India<ref name=":02" />
|-
|[[Lycus (mythology)|Lycus]]
|[[Nonnus]], [[Dionysiaca]]
|son of Hermes and [[Iphthime]], and brother of Pherespondus and Pronomus<ref>Nonnus, ''Dionysiaca'' 14.112</ref>
|-
|[[Maron (mythology)|Maron]]
|[[Nonnus]], [[Dionysiaca]]
|son of Silenus and brother of Astraeus and Leneus;<ref name=":1" /> charioteer of Dionysus<ref>Nonnus, ''Dionysiaca'' 15.141, 18.49, 42.20</ref>
|-
|[[Marsyas]]
|
|[needs citation and text]
|-
|[[Napaeus (mythology)|Napaeus]]
|[[Nonnus]], [[Dionysiaca]]
|one of the leaders of the satyrs who joined the army of Dionysus in his campaign against India<ref name=":08">Nonnus, ''Dionysiaca'' 14.107</ref>
|-
|[[Oestrus (mythology)|Oestrus]]
|[[Nonnus]], [[Dionysiaca]]
|one of the leaders of the satyrs who joined the army of Dionysus in his campaign against India<ref name=":06" />
|-
|[[Onthyrius]]
|[[Nonnus]], [[Dionysiaca]]
|killed by Tectaphus during the Indian War<ref>Nonnus, ''Dionysiaca'' 30.137</ref>
|-
|[[Orestes (Greek myth)|Orestes]]
|[[Nonnus]], [[Dionysiaca]]
|one of the leaders of the satyrs who joined the army of Dionysus in his campaign against India;<ref name=":07"/> character is likely a fabrication of Nonnus' (name translates to "mountain-dweller")
|-
|[[Petraeus (mythology)|Petraeus]]
|[[Nonnus]], [[Dionysiaca]]
|one of the leaders of the satyrs who joined the army of Dionysus in his campaign against India<ref name=":2">Nonnus, ''Dionysiaca'' 14.109</ref>
|-
|[[Phereus]]
|[[Nonnus]], [[Dionysiaca]]
|one of the leaders of the satyrs who joined the army of Dionysus in his campaign against India<ref name=":2" />
|-
|[[Pherespondus]]
|[[Nonnus]], [[Dionysiaca]]
|herald of Dionysus during the Indian War and son of Hermes and Iphthime, and brother of Lycus and Pronomous<ref>Nonnus, ''Dionysiaca'' 14.112 & 18.313</ref>
|-
|[[Phlegraeus]]
|[[Nonnus]], [[Dionysiaca]]
|one of the leaders of the satyrs who joined the army of Dionysus in his campaign against India<ref name=":08"/>
|-
| [[Pithos (mythology)|Pithos]]
|[[Nonnus]], [[Dionysiaca]]
|another satyr killed by Tectaphus<ref>Nonnus, ''Dionysiaca'' 30.138</ref>
|-
|[[Poemenius]]
|[[Nonnus]], [[Dionysiaca]]
|one of the leaders of the satyrs who joined the army of Dionysus in his campaign against India;<ref name=":08"/> character is likely a fabrication of Nonnus' (name translates to "Pastoral")
|-
|[[Pronomus]]
|[[Nonnus]], [[Dionysiaca]]
|son of Hermes and Iphthime, and brother of Lycus and Pherespondus<ref name=":0">Nonnus, ''Dionysiaca'' 14.113</ref>
|-
|[[Pylaieus]]
|[[Nonnus]], [[Dionysiaca]]
|another Satyr killed by Tectaphus<ref>Nonnus, ''Dionysiaca'' 30.136</ref>
|-
|[[Scirtus (mythology)|Scirtus]]
|[[Nonnus]], [[Dionysiaca]]
|one of the leaders of the satyrs who joined the army of Dionysus in his campaign against India<ref name=":06" />
|-
|Silenus
|
|[multiple texts; still needs citations]
|-
|[[Thasus|Thiasus]]
|[[Nonnus]], [[Dionysiaca]]
|one of the leaders of the satyrs who joined the army of Dionysus in his campaign against India;<ref name=":07" /> character is likely a fabrication of Nonnus' (name translates to "cult-association")
|-
|''Unnamed Satyr''
|[[Ovid]], 
Fasti
|father of Ampelus by a Nymph<ref>[[Ovid]], ''[[Fasti (poem)|Fasti]]'' 3.409</ref>
|}

Many names of the satyrs that appear in Nonnos' Dionysiaca are heavily assumed to have been coined by the author, and are nothing more than plot devices with no mythological significance. Four names listed in the epic, when translated, are merely adjectives associated to the character <ref>''Dionysiaca (1940 translation), '''footnote on page 480'''''Nonnos, of Panopolis; Frye, Northrop. Marginalia; Rouse, W. H. D. (William Henry Denham), 1863–1950; Rose, H. J. (Herbert Jennings), 1883–1961; Lind, L. R. (Levi Robert), 1906-</ref>("Pastoral", "Cult-association", "Tall-horn", and "Mountain-dweller").

The names of the satyrs according to various vase paintings were: [[Babacchos]], [[Briacchos]], [[Dithyrambos (mythology)|Dithyrambos]], [[Demon (Greek myth)|Demon]], [[Dromis]], [[Echon]], [[Hedyoinos]] ("Sweet Wine"), [[Hybris (Greek myth)|Hybris]] ("Insolence"), [[Hedymeles]], ("Sweet Song"), [[Comus|Komos]] ("Revelry"), [[Cissus (mythology)|Kissos]] ("Ivy"), [[Molkos]], [[Oinos (mythology)|Oinos]], [[Oreimachos]], [[Simos]] ("Snub-nose"), [[Terpon]] and [[Tyrbas]] ("Rout").<ref>{{Cite book|last=Walters|first=Henry Beauchamp|url=|title=History of Ancient Pottery: Greek, Etruscan, and Roman: Based on the Work of Samuel Birch|year=1905|volume=2|pages=[https://archive.org/details/historyofancient02walt/page/65/mode/2up/ 65], [https://archive.org/details/historyofancient02walt/page/66/mode/2up/ 66]}}</ref>