This article argues that the Ikarioi Satyroi by Timokles was performed in the slot for satyr play. Most scholarship classifies it as a comedy because Timokles is best known as a comic poet and the play mocked contemporaries in a modern setting. Yet its title strongly suggests that it was a satyr play, and changes to the festival in the fourth century could have enabled new poets to experiment in the genre. The fragments show affinities with satyr plays that came before and after it, and this article suggests that the Ikarioi Satyroi and the precedent it set directly influenced later satyrographers.

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