Comus in Art
Description of Comus as he appeared in painting is found in Imagines (Greek Εἰκόνες, translit. Eikones) by Philostratus the Elder, a Greek writer and sophist of the 3rd century AD.
Lorenzo Costa depicted Comus in his painting The Reign of Comus.
Comus appears at the start of the masque Pleasure Reconciled to Virtue by Ben Jonson and in Les fêtes de Paphos (The Festivals of Paphos), an opéra-ballet by Jean-Joseph Cassanéa de Mondonville.
In John Milton's masque Comus, the god Comus is described as the son of Bacchus and Circe. However, this is just a post-classical invention.
Comus is featured in the baroque operas Les plaisirs de Versailles by Marc-Antoine Charpentier and King Arthur by Henry Purcell and John Dryden.
A selfish dandy, Comus is the central character in the novel "The Unbearable Bassington" by Saki (H.H. Munro).
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