What is the difference between the Mythology of a Faun and a Satyr ?

Answer 1

Satyrs are lustful creatures that are part goat. Fauns are part deer and are more peaceful, calmer beasts.

Answer 2

As sala'amu alei'kum, azizi,

In Roman mythology, fauns are place-spirits (genii) of untamed woodland. Romans connected their fauns with the Greek satyrs, wild and orgiastic drunken followers of Dionysus. However, fauns and satyrs were originally quite different creatures. Both have horns and both resemble goats below the waist, humans above; but originally satyrs had human feet, fauns goatlike hooves. The Romans also had a god named Faunus and a goddess Fauna, who, like the fauns, were goat-people.

The Barberini Faun (Glyptothek, Munich, Germany) is a Hellenistic marble, c. 200 BC that was found in the Mausoleum of the Emperor Hadrian (the Castel Sant'Angelo) and installed at Palazzo Barberini by Cardinal Maffeo Barberini (later Pope Urban VIII), the patron of Bernini, who heavily restored and refinished it, so that its present 'Hellenistic baroque' aspect may be enhanced.

Hope this helped.

Ma sala'amah, azizi.

Answer 3

I had always grown up with the notion that fauns were female and satyrs were male. I'm sure that is incorrect with the world around us.

perhaps it might be easier to think of fauns as Roman and Satyrs as Greek. Some might even tell you that fauns were nymphs of the sylvan glade while satyrs were their pseudo cousins that ran around in packs of roman orgies.