Pan’s sanctuary on the Pnyx hill in Athens | Photo C messier on Wikimedia Commons. Rabelais, in the fourth book of the series on Gargantua and Pantagruel published in 1552, recalls Plutarch’s story, ...

In Greek mythology Pan was the god of the wild, shepherds, and flocks; and he was usually shown in the form of a faun or satyr with the hind-legs, hooves, and horns.

In Greek mythology, Satyrs were "wild creatures" that were "closely associated with Dionysus," the Greek god of fertility as well as wine, pleasure and "ritual madness," Newsweek reported.

Construction workers discovered a mosaic floor from the 4th century B.C.E. while installing underground water pipelines in Eretria, a Greek town north of Athens. The mosaic, made of white, black ...

In Greek mythology, Satyrs were "wild creatures" that were "closely associated with Dionysus," the Greek god of fertility as well as wine, pleasure and "ritual madness," Newsweek reported.