Pans and Satyrs
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because they lived in the mountains far away from women, whenever a woman did turn up, the Pans and Satyrs would all share her for sex. [They were thought to have the hair and the legs of goats because they neglected to wash and a stench hung around them. And here is the reason they were thought to be companions of Dionysos: they did the work of grape cultivation.]
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It’s just like now, when it comes to women who are available to all, we say that we all do them like Pans.
On Unbelievable Stories. Heraclitus Paradoxographus. Billie Hall (Translator), Greta Hawes (Translator), Tate Jenetsky (Translator), Rosemary Selth (Translator), Aaron Wallis (Translator). Washington, DC. 11/19/2021.
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Funding provided by Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación PID2019-108931GB-I00 / SRA 10.13039/501100011033.