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. seilenos was depicted as a jovial old man, hairy and balding, with a pot-belly, snub-nose, and the ears and tail of an ass. he rode in the train of dionysos seated on the back of a donkey. seilenos was, in essence, the spirit of the treading dance of the wine-press, his name being derived from the
; aristaios (aristaeus) , god of shepherds, and another foster-father of dionysos; oreios (oreus) , father of the hamadryades; pyrrhikhos (pyrrhichus) , a kourete (curete) of the rustic dance; and marsyas , a flute-playing satyr. family of silenus parents [ ] gaia (nonnus dionysiaca ) [ ] a nymphe (aelian...
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