satyr

Une collection de nus datant du XIXéme siécle jusqu’aux années folles. Œuvres sulfureuses ou décadentes, images érotiques vintage ou simples documents de travail pour artistes…  In Greek mythology, satyrs (Ancient Greek: Σάτυροι, Satyroi) are a troop of male companions of Pan and Dionysus — “satyresses” were a late invention of poets — that roamed the woods and mountains. In myths they are often associated with pipe-playing. The satyrs’ chief was Silenus, a minor deity associated (like Hermes and Priapus) with fertility. These characters can be found in the only complete remaining satyr play, Cyclops, by Euripides, and the fragments of Sophocles‘ The Tracking Satyrs (Ichneutae). The satyr play was a short, lighthearted tailpiece performed after each trilogy of tragedies in Athenian festivals honoring Dionysus. There is not enough evidence to determine whether the satyr play regularly drew on the same myths as those dramatized in the tragedies that preceded. The groundbreaking tragic playwright Aeschylus is said to have been especially loved for his satyr plays, but none of them have survived. histoiredeloeil.eros