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    In Greek mythology, a satyr (Greek: σάτυρος, translit. sátyros, pronounced [sátyros]), also known as a silenus or silenos (Greek: σειληνός, translit. seilēnós...
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    flew on 15 September 1940, and was tested at the A & AEE under the military serial number AX834 against Specification F.19/40. Armed with eight .303 Browning...
    10 KB (1,268 words) - 13:56, 29 January 2022
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    HMS Satyr was an S-class submarine of the Royal Navy, and part of the third group built of that class. She was built by Scotts, of Greenock and launched...
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    The painting shows the killing by flaying or skinning alive of Marsyas, a satyr who rashly challenged the god Apollo to a musical contest. It is one of...
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  • Aristotle divides the art of poetry into verse drama (comedy, tragedy, and the satyr play), lyric poetry, and epic. The genres all share the function of mimesis...
    37 KB (4,385 words) - 22:23, 29 June 2024
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    city-state of Athens produced three genres of drama: tragedy, comedy, and the satyr play. Their origins remain obscure, though by the 5th century BC, they were...
    53 KB (6,670 words) - 00:10, 27 May 2024
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    other side, the satyrs are attacking Hera, who stands between Hermes and Heracles. The ancient playwright Achaeus wrote Iris, a now lost satyr play, which...
    32 KB (3,179 words) - 20:46, 6 June 2024
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    Manticore (redirect from Satyral)
    "Fraude" with Reference to Bronzino's "Sphinx"". Renaissance Quarterly. 49 (2): 303–333. doi:10.2307/2863160. JSTOR 2863160. S2CID 192984544. traces the chimeric...
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    of the cult, probably drew heavily on the Roman dramatic genre known as "Satyr plays", based on Greek originals. The cult was suppressed by the State with...
    212 KB (24,661 words) - 22:22, 26 June 2024
  • 2023-05-14. "USS Krishna (ARL-38)". Navsource Online. Retrieved 2023-05-14. "USS Satyr (ARL-23), ex USS LST-852 (1944)]". Navsource Online. Retrieved 2023-05-14...
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  • Thumbnail for Miles Master
    radical use of the aircraft was the M.24 Master Fighter. Armed with six 0.303 inch (7.7 mm) machine guns, it was intended for mass production as an emergency...
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    ISBN 978-0300185119. (Suhr 1953:251 note). There was also an Omphale Satyroi (a satyr-play) by the tragedian Ion (Snell, Tragicorum Graecorum Fragmenta Vol. 1...
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    (Metamorphoses, VI, 110-111). Scenes of satyr voyeurism or sexual assault, given titles such as Nymph Surprised by a Satyr, are found in art, mostly later than...
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    while in Euripides' lost play Antiope, Zeus apparently took the form of a satyr to sleep with Antiope. Various authors speak of Zeus raping Callisto, one...
    202 KB (17,313 words) - 22:31, 28 June 2024
  • his henchmen who have aspects of mythological creatures like centaurs and satyrs, because Trafalgar Law gave them animal parts to replace their wrecked legs...
    401 KB (57,667 words) - 23:05, 28 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for British S-class submarine (1931)
    the 1939 War Emergency Programme. HMS Safari HMS Sahib HMS Saracen HMS Satyr HMS Sceptre Twenty ships were ordered under the 1940 Programme. These differed...
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    queen's reflection while the male legend, involving the god Apollo and the satyr Marsyas, is on the side of the king. The painted surface is divided into...
    69 KB (8,971 words) - 14:54, 27 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ancient Greek comedy
    forms in the theatre of classical Greece (the others being tragedy and the satyr play). Athenian comedy is conventionally divided into three periods: Old...
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  • Thumbnail for Sexuality in ancient Rome
    company of a satyr, a figure of bestial sexuality known for subjecting an unsuspecting or often sleeping victim to non-consensual sex; the satyr in scenes...
    265 KB (34,863 words) - 17:04, 9 June 2024
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    commissioned for performance at religious festivals; many of these were satyr plays, based on Greek models and Greek myths. The poet Naevius may be said...
    166 KB (20,458 words) - 14:59, 29 June 2024
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