1. One day an old satyr called Silenus came to King Midas' palace.

2. Bacchanalia is a c.1615 oil painting of Bacchus, Silenus, bacchantes and satyrs by Peter Paul Rubens. Originally painted on panel, it was transferred to canvas by A

3. Here we have, in a great symbol of art, both the fair world of Apollo and its substratum, the terrible wisdom of Silenus , and we can comprehend intuitively how they mutually require one another.

4. Silenus Apostrophizing the absent Dionysus O Bromius, labors numberless have I had because of you, now and when I was young and able-bodied! First, when Hera drove you mad and you went off leaving behind your nurses, the mountain-nymphs; 1 [5] next, when in the battle with the Earthborn Giants 2 I took my