This is a cast of the famous bronze statuette of a dancing faun or satyr from the Tuscan impluvium of the House of the Faun at Pompeii (Pompeii VI.12.2), for which the house is named. The lean, ...

The poems mention silenoi, dancing partners to nymphs ... that there is naturally overlap in how they are interpreted in art. Satyr plays were a specific genre of ancient Greek drama performed ...