Marsyas
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title:
Marsyas
text:
In Greek mythology, the satyr Marsyas is a central figure in two stories involving music: in one, he picked up the double oboe (aulos) that had been abandoned by Athena and played it; in the other, he challenged Apollo to a contest of music and lost his hide and life. Literary sources from antiquity often emphasize the hubris of Marsyas and the justice of his punishment. One strand of modern comparative mythography regards the domination of Marsyas by Apollo as an example of myth that recapitula
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Satyr musician in Greek mythology
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marsyas
date created:
2002-09-01T12:45:28Z
date modified:
2024-09-03T20:40:07Z
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