Satyr vs Minotaur - What's the difference?
satyr | minotaur |
(Greek mythology) A male companion of Pan or Dionysus with the tail of a horse and a perpetual erection.
* Milton
(Roman mythology) A faun.
A lecherous man.
Any of various butterflies of the family Satyridae , having brown wings marked with eyelike spots; a meadow brown.
(obsolete) The orangutan.
(Webster 1913)
In greek mythology terms the difference between satyr and minotaur
is that satyr is a male companion of Pan or Dionysus with the tail of a horse and a perpetual erection while minotaur is a monster with the head of a bull and the body of a man.As a proper noun Minotaur is
a monster, half man and half bull, who dwelled in the labyrinth in Crete and who was killed by Theseus.satyr
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Alternative forms
* satyre (rare or archaic) * satyrus (rare)Noun
(wikipedia satyr) (en noun)- Rough Satyrs danced; and Fauns, with cloven heel, / From the glad sound would not be absent long.