satyr
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The name Satyrex combines Satyr, a half-human, half-beast figure from Greek mythology known for exaggerated anatomy, with the Latin word rēx, meaning "king."
From Science Daily • Apr. 6, 2026
Ph.D. candidates in informatics have worked on a computer program that allows this museum’s visitors to try to reconstruct Praxiteles’ statue of the Resting Satyr, now armless and legless.
From New York Times • Mar. 15, 2017
The Dancing Satyr, a fourth century bronze discovered off the coast of Sicily by fishermen in 1998.
From The Guardian • Dec. 18, 2012
Nymphs and Satyr vanished until last year, when Durand-Ruel Director Herbert H. Elfers stumbled on the legendary canvas in a Manhattan warehouse.
From Time Magazine Archive
A panther's skin, hanging from the left shoulder of the Satyr, floats in the air at his back.
From A Catalogue of Sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum, Volume I (of 2) by Smith, A. H.
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