The ancient authors Philochorus and Satyrus described Euripides as a misanthrope who avoided society by lurking in a cave.
On the death of King Pairisades, Satyrus took the throne, but his younger brother, Eumelos, fled to the Thataeans who backed his claim.
The architects Satyrus and Pythis, and the sculptors Scopas of Paros, Leochares, Bryaxis and Timotheus, finished the work after the death of Artemisia, some of them working, it was said, purely for renown.