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In Greek mythology, Hyperion (/ h aɪ ˈ p ɪər i ə n /; Ancient Greek: Ὑπερίων, 'he who goes before') [1] was one of the twelve Titan children of Gaia (Earth) and Uranus (Sky). [2] With his sister, the Titaness Theia , Hyperion fathered Helios (Sun), Selene (Moon) and Eos (Dawn).
Hyperion, a Fragment is an abandoned epic poem by 19th-century English Romantic poet John Keats. It was published in Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems (1820). [ 1 ] It is based on the Titanomachia , and tells of the despair of the Titans after their fall to the Olympians.
In Greek mythology, a satyr [a] (Ancient Greek: σάτυρος, romanized: sátyros, pronounced), also known as a silenus [b] or silenos (Ancient Greek: σειληνός, romanized: seilēnós [seːlɛːnós]), and sileni (plural), is a male nature spirit with ears and a tail resembling those of a horse, as well as a permanent, exaggerated erection.
The Satyr and the Traveller, illustrated by Walter Crane, 1887. The Satyr and the Traveller (or Peasant) is one of Aesop's Fables and is numbered 35 in the Perry Index.The popular idiom 'to blow hot and cold' is associated with it and the fable is read as a warning against duplicity.
The satyr play is a form of Attic theatre performance related to both comedy and tragedy. It preserves theatrical elements of dialogue, actors speaking verse, a chorus that dances and sings, masks and costumes.
Agostino Carracci: Le Satyre et la Nymphe. Satyrs and nymphs form two extremes in Greek mythology, which are united only by their instinctive natures. While the nymph was the source of the psychological term nymphomania (now hypersexuality), the satyr was the source of the once common but now outdated term satyriasis and can be understood as the nymph's male equivalent.
A coin featuring the profile of Hera on one face and Zeus on the other, c. 210 AC. Roman conquerors of the Hellenic East allowed the incorporation of existing Greek mythological figures such as Zeus into their coinage in places like Phrygia, in order to "augment the fame" of the locality, while "creating a stronger civil identity" without "advertising" the imposition of Roman culture.
a satyr; son of Hyagnis and either Olympus or Oeagrus Maeander Caria Meles Hellanicus, Eugaeon: Lydia * Mincius Virgil: Gallia, Italy * Nestos or Nessus Bistonia, Thrace Nilus Egypt Numicius Latium, Italy * Nymphaeus? [citation needed] Quintus Smyrnaeus: Bithynia and Paphlagonia