The second describes the love affair between Silenus and the nymph Syrinx.

Phrygians, however, were shown wearing the distinctive peaked cap in illustrations on Greek vases, and such images predate the earliest surviving literary sources: a mid-6th century Laconian cup depicts the capture of Silenus at a fountain house, by armed men in Eastern costume and pointed caps.

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.

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 ).

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.

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 ".

In Brian Hooker's 1923 English translation of Edmond Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac, Cyrano disparagingly refers to the ham actor Montfleury as " That Silenus who cannot hold his belly in his arms.

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.

There are also many singular beings who frequent or inhabit Narnia and its surrounding countries including: the River god, Bacchus, Father Christmas, Father Time, Pomona, Silenus, and Tash.

He is said to have associated himself with Silenus and other satyrs and with Dionysus, who granted him the famous " golden touch ".

Back on Hyperion, Brawne Lamia, who has awakened from her coma-like state, penetrates the Shrike Palace to find Silenus and all of the other victims of the Shrike connected via a long cable.

At this time, Silenus becomes convinced that it is the Shrike who is his muse, who, in some occult way, his poem had brought into existence.

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

Ancient Greeks and Romans saw this object as a manger from which two donkeys, the adjacent stars Asellus Borealis and Asellus Australis, are eating ; these are the donkeys that Dionysos and Silenus rode into battle against the Titans.

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.

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.

Fat, primitive dwarves ( similar to the followers of Silenus ) with prominent genitalia were painted on the cups.

* The Misfortunes of Silenus ( c. 1505-1510 ) Oil on panel, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts

* 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.

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.

Silenus was born into an aristocratic family on Earth, during the Hegira, and was later among the settlers of the Poets ' City.

Silenus goes to the Poets ' City to complete his " Hyperion Cantos ", but is instead surprised by the Shrike and impaled on the Tree of Thorns, which is revealed to be partially real.

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.

Silenus trained as a poet, but his training was interrupted when the Kiev Team's black hole " ate " the Earth ; his mother dispatched her son aboard a slower-than-light flight to a nearby system, calculating that the shrunken family fortune would accumulate enough in compound interest over the century the voyage would take that the family's debt would be paid off and enough left over for Martin to live on for a time.

Silenus leaves his lifestyle, liquidates his assets, and signs on with Sad King Billy.

At the same time, Silenus ' muse returns, and he continues work on the Cantos.

Three sides of the southern pillar have relief representations: the central scene shows a cockerel whose head and neck are elongated into a phallus, on either side are groups containing Dionysus and a Maenad, with a small Silenus on one side and a figure of Pan on the other.

Childhood's End -- apparently indebted to Kurd Lasswitz's Utopian romance, Auf Zwei Planeten ( 1897 ), and also to Wells's Histories Of The Future, especially, The World Set Free ( 1914 ) and The Shape Of Things To Come ( 1933 ) -- describes the bloodless conquest of earth by the Overlords, vastly superior creatures who come to our world in order to prepare the human race for its next stage of development, an eventual merging with the composite mind of the universe.

Helena Blavatsky wrote in The Secret Doctrine ( 1888 ) that the Atlanteans were cultural heroes ( contrary to Plato, who describes them mainly as a military threat ) and are the fourth " Root Race ", succeeded by the " Aryan race ".

R. G. Watson ( History of Persia, 128-9 ) describes him as “ the noblest of the Kajar race ”.

The story describes the creation of self-replicating weapons factories designed to destroy the Anabis, a galaxy-spanning malevolent life form bent on destruction of the human race.

Johnson describes that the African identity was influenced and caste system constructed by dividing enslaved Africans, mixed race offsprings, and indentured servants by their occupations, and by skin color.

Jordanes, a Goth writing in Italy in 551, a century after the collapse of the Hunnic Empire, describes the Huns as a " savage race, which dwelt at first in the swamps, a stunted, foul and puny tribe, scarcely human, and having no language save one which bore but slight resemblance to human speech.

Marco Polo in his 13th-century travels, for example, describes the Persian race — the current concept of " race " dates back only to the 17th century.

* In the dialogue " What the Tortoise Said to Achilles ", Lewis Carroll describes what happens at the end of the race.

In the early Imperial era, Ovid describes the opening of Cerealia ( mid to late April ) with a horse race at the Circus, followed by the nighttime release of foxes into the stadium, their tails ablaze with lighted torches.

Because pragmatics describes generally the forces in play for a given utterance, it includes the study of power, gender, race, identity, and their interactions with individual speech acts.

A particular text screen in Marathon Infinity describes the W ' rkncacnter as a race of beings who " live in chaos, creating it around them.

One common theme found among the Celtic nations describes a race of diminutive people who had been driven into hiding by invading humans.

Pindar's Olympian Ode 1 and Bacchylides's Ode 5 differ also in their description of the race – while Pindar's reference to Pherenicus is slight and general ("... speeding / by Alpheus ' bank, / His lovely limbs ungoaded on the course ...": Olympian I. 20 – 21 ), Bacchylides describes the running of the winner more vividly and in rather more detail – a difference that is characteristic of the two poets:

Sutekh the Osiran decries them as " ever a perfidious species ," while Brother Lassar, in the episode " School Reunion ", describes the Time Lords as " a pompous race " of " ancient, dusty senators ... frightened of change and chaos " and " peaceful to the point of indolence ".

Coined by author Bakari Kitwana, it describes a generation of people, regardless of race, who came of age in post-segregation America.

Because the term gee gee also describes the lead horse in a race, that animal became their mascot.

* In Stephenie Meyer's novel The Host the narrator describes an alien race she has encountered who are similar to dolphins and have three distinct sexes, all of which are required for reproduction and have separate societal roles.

Roland Huntford, author of Two Planks and a Passion, describes this race as, " the first truly modern ski race.

The Future History, by Robert A. Heinlein, describes a projected future of the human race from the middle of the 20th century through the early 23rd century.

Institutional racism describes any kind of system of inequality based on race.

The last episode looks at the race by humans to be the first to reach the South Pole, and its second half describes how the series was made.

The song " Astro Zombies ", inspired by the 1968 horror film Astro-Zombies, describes an urge to exterminate the whole human race.