Caprinid-human hybrids
Goat or Sheep × Human
Satyrs in Art
Mammalian Hybrids
EUGENE M. MCCARTHY, PHD GENETICS, ΦΒΚ
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Sheep get like shepherds, and shepherds like sheep.
—J.R.R. Tolkien
The Lord of the Rings |
Two satyrs (exterior relief, Cathedral of María Inmaculada of Vitoria, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain)
Detail from Funeral of a Satyr (Les Obseques, Claude Gillot, ca. 1700–1720)
A sheep-human hybrid (Alte Hofhaltung, Bamberg, Germany)
Walter Crane’s illustration of the fable of “The Satyr and the Traveller” (Baby’s Own Aesop, London, 1887).
Three boys, a young satyr and a goat (Wenceslaus Hollar, 1647)
Youth Playing a Pipe for a Satyr (Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione).
Satyr (Gilles Demarteau, after François Boucher).
Satyr Family (Albrecht Dürer, 1505).
The Flaying of Marsyas (Titian, c. 1570).
Apollo Flaying Marsyas (Antonio Tempesta, 1606).
Pan teaching Daphnis to play the pipes (Roman copy of Greek original; Pompeii, before 79 A.D.).
Faun and nymph (Workshop of Peter Paul Rubens).
Jupiter and Antiope (Charles-Andre van Loo).
Corisca and the Satyr (Artemisia Gentileschi).
Drawing of a sleeping couple with satyrs (Padua, School of Andrea Mantegna, Collection of the British Museum).
Deer-cow hybrids?
By the same author: Handbook of Avian Hybrids of the World, Oxford University Press (2006).