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Satyrus

Σάτυρος

(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.]

From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.