Satyrus

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Satyrus (latin for Satyr) was a common name in Ancient Greece.

• Individuals named Satyrus from Greece proper:
  • Satyrus of Athens was a political figure at Athens in the late 5th century BC. He was a member of the oligarch faction opposed to the Athenian democracy at the end of the Peloponnesian War. Xenophon mentions him in his Hellenica: "When Critias had spoken these words, Satyrus dragged Theramenes away from the altar, and his servants lent their aid." He was instrumental in the downfall and execution of Cleophon.
  • Satyrus of Elis won the Olympic prize for boxing three times in the 320s BC, according to Pausanias.
  • Satyrus was a distinguished comic actor at Athens in the 4th century BC, who is said to have instructed the orator and politician Demosthenes in the art of rhetoric.
  • Satyrus the Peripatetic was a Greek writer of the late 3rd century BC. He is best known as the author of a biography of the Athenian dramatist Euripides. A near-complete copy of this work was found at Oxyrhynchus in Egypt. He also wrote a biography of Philip of Macedon, of which parts survive.

• Satyrus is also the name of two rulers of Greek colonies on the Black Sea:
  • Satyrus, ruler of Heraclea Pontica, was the brother of the tyrant Clearchus of Heraclea. He succeeded him as ruler after Clearchus' murder in 353 BC, until Clearchus' son Timotheus of Heraclea had come of age. Memnon of Heraclea describes his rule as even worse than his brothers'.
  • Satyrus, tyrant of Bosphorus, ruled 431–387 BC. He died in a war that came about due to his failed scheme against Queen Tirgatao of the Maeotae, and/or his attempt to conquer Theodosia.

• Saint Satyrus is either of two early Christian saints.

• Satyros or Satyrus was an ancient Greek architect of the 4th century BCE. Along with Pythis, he designed the Mausoleum of Maussollos at Halicarnassus, considered one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.

Satyrus (genus) is a genus of butterflies.