Satyr to the root "sat-", meaning "to sow", which has also been proposed as the root of the name of the Roman god Saturn. Satyrs are usually indistinguishable from "silenoi", whose iconography is virtually identical. According to "Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable", the name "satyr" is sometimes derogatorily applied to a "brutish or lustful man". The term satyriasis refers to a medical condition in males characterized by excessive sexual desire. It is the male equivalent of nymphomania. According to classicist Martin Litchfield West, satyrs and silenoi in Greek mythology are similar to a number of other entities appearing in other
What Is Man? (King essay) and concludes that 'man is a sinner in need of God's divine grace'. King also admits that we find excuses to avoid this reality, 'we say that man's misdeeds are due to a conflict between the Id and the superego'. He then states the conflict is 'between God and man', and that we want to cry with St. Augustine, "Lord, make me pure, but not yet". This then leads King to argue that 'the "isness" of our present nature is out of harmony with the "oughtness" that forever confronts us' with this 'we know how to love, and yet we