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) of this 'there is nothing wrong with it' and that 'everything God makes is good; therefore there is nothing wrong with it'. The Greeks, as King informs us, 'felt the body was evil' and that the 'soul could never reach its full maturity until it broke loose from the prison of the body'. However, Christianity raises the view that 'the body is not the principle of evil; it says the will is the principle of evil'. He then defines that in 'any doctrine of man, we must be concerned with man's physical well being'. To support this he brings up