Silenus also appears in Emperor Julian the Apostate's satire, The Caesars, where he sits next to the gods and offers up his comments on the various rulers under examination.

Silenus appears in the writings of Arthur Schopenhauer, who endorsed his most famous dictum that " the best thing for a man is not to be born ".

Bacchus himself appears with his panther and Silenus at the ' 12 o ' clock ' position on the circle in relation to the orientation of the Oceanus head, so that in most illustrations of the dish, he is seen upside-down at the top of the picture.

She manages to free Silenus, just as the Shrike appears and prepares to attack her.

Once, as Ovid relates in Metamorphoses XI Dionysus found his old schoolmaster and foster father, the satyr Silenus, missing.

The old satyr Silenus had been drinking wine and had wandered away drunk, later to be found by some Phrygian peasants, who carried him to their king, Midas ( alternatively, he passed out in Midas ' rose garden ).

In Euripides's satyr play Cyclops, Silenus is stranded with the Satyrs in Sicily, where they have been enslaved by the Cyclops.

In the Percy Jackson series written by Rick Riordan, Silenus is a satyr who serves as a member of the Council of the Cloven Elders.

In Euripides ' satyr play Cyclops the minor god Silenus claims to have dealt Enceladus ' death blow, but this was perhaps intended by the author as a vain drunken boast, since Silenus also claims to have sent the Gigantes flying with the braying of his ass.

Aeschylus was noted for his satyr plays, the largest fragment of which to have survived being his Dictyulci (' The Net Fishers ') in which the baby Perseus is washed up on the shore with his mother Danae and is found by Silenus and the satyrs.

* In the direction to which she stares in horror, another mural shows a young satyr being offered a bowl of wine by Silenus while behind him, another satyr holds up a frightening mask which the drinking satyr sees reflected in the bowl ( this may parallel the mirror into which young Dionysus stares in the Orphic rites ).

Heinz-Günther Nesselrath has argued that these and other details of Silenus ' story are meant as imitation and exaggeration of the Atlantis story, for the purpose of exposing Plato's ideas to ridicule.

An alternative story was that when lost and wandering in Phrygia, Silenus was rescued by peasants and taken to King Midas, who treated him kindly.

Another story was that Silenus had been captured by two shepherds, and regaled them with wondrous tales.

Dionysos greeting Ariadne with her sacred serpent, in the sacred grove for their marriage, symbolized by the winged cherub with a nuptial torch, in the presence of his foster-father, Silenus

The Victorian artist and poet Thomas Woolner wrote Silenus, a long narrative poem about the myth, in which Syrinx becomes the lover of Silenus, but drowns when she attempts to escape rape by Pan, as a result of the crime Pan is transmuted into a demon figure and Silenus becomes a drunkard.

The Phrygian King Midas was eager to learn from Silenus and caught the old man by lacing a fountain from which Silenus often drank.

In return for Midas ' hospitality Silenus told him some tales and Midas, enchanted by Silenus ’ s fictions, entertained him for five days and nights.

At the left, the newborn god is surrounded by Silenus.

The god himself is drawn in a chariot, usually by exotic beasts such as lions or tigers, and is sometimes attended by a bearded, drunken Silenus.

Silenus ' Procession, by Peter Paul Rubens | Rubens.

Within the fictional storyline, the Hyperion Cantos is an epic poem written by the character Martin Silenus.

He is rescued by Martin Silenus and asked to perform a series of rather extraordinarily difficult tasks.

* Mare Infinitus — A planet covered by water — Martin Silenus had a guest bathroom on this planet consisting of a small raft with a toilet, no walls, and no ceiling.

Fourth-century BC classicism is represented by Roman copies of the best artists of the period: the magnificent Head of the Cnidian Venus, the Satyr in Repose by Praxitiles, Scopas's Hercules, and the Head of Silenus and Head of Hercules by Lysippus.

Alcibiades begins by comparing Socrates to a statue of Silenus ; the statue is ugly and hollow, and inside it is full of tiny golden statues of the gods ( 215a-b ).

This description was included in Book 8 of his voluminous Philippica, which contains a dialogue between King Midas and Silenus, a companion of Dionysus.

Sileni is the plural ( Latin ) form of Silenus, a creature often related to the Roman wine god, Bacchus, thus represented in pictorial art as inebriated, merry revellers, who are mounted on donkeys, singing, dancing, playing flutes etc.

Erasmus lists several Sileni and then questions whether Christ is the most noticeable Silenus of them all.

Midas recognized him and treated him hospitably, entertaining him for ten days and nights with politeness, while Silenus delighted Midas and his friends with stories and songs.

On the eleventh day, he brought Silenus back to Dionysus in Lydia.

Pasiphaë appeared in Virgil's Eclogue VI ( 45 – 60 ), in Silenus ' list of suitable mythological subjects, on which Virgil lingers in such detail that he gives the sixteen-line episode the weight of a brief inset myth.

The satyrs ' chief was Silenus, a minor deity associated ( like Hermes and Priapus ) with fertility.

5 and 8 describe the myth of Daphnis in a song contest, 6, the cosmic and mythological song of Silenus, 7, a heated poetic contest, and 10 the sufferings of the contemporary elegiac poet Cornelius Gallus.

In Greek mythology, Silenus ( Greek Σειληνός ) was a companion and tutor to the wine god Dionysus.

The original Silenus resembled a folklore man of the forest with the ears of a horse and sometimes also the tail and legs of a horse.

Later still, the plural " Sileni " went out of use and the only references were to one individual named Silenus, the teacher and faithful companion of the wine-god Dionysus.

Silenus was described as the oldest, wisest and most drunken of the followers of Dionysus, and was said in Orphic hymns to be the young god's tutor.

When intoxicated, Silenus was said to possess special knowledge and the power of prophecy.

As Silenus fell asleep, the king's servants seized and took him to their master.

Silenus shared with the king a pessimistic philosophy: That the best thing for a man is not to be born, and if already born, to die as soon as possible.