A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology

Smith, William

A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. William Smith, LLD, ed. 1890

(Σάτυρος), literary.

1. A celebrated musician of Thebes, father of the fluteplayer ANTIGENIDAS (Suid. s. v. Ἀντιγενίδας). Since his son was the flute-player of Philoxenus, Satyrus himself must have flourished about the latter period of the Peloponnesian War. [PHILOXENUS, No. 1.]