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Marsyas

In Greek mythology, the satyr Marsyas (/ˈmɑːrsiəs/; Ancient Greek: Μαρσύας) 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…

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related to References · 59
Marsyas → Ancient Greek Art, Apollodorus, Art, Cambridge, Carl, Carolina Academic Press, Classical Myth, Danny Staples, Description, Dionysiaca, Ellen, English Translation, Fabulae, Gaius Julius Hyginus, Graeciae Descriptio, Greece, Greek, Harvard University Press, Humanistic Studies, Hyginus
related to Prophecy and free speech at Rome · 24
Marsyas → Among, At, Aventine Triad, Bacchus, Ceres, Dionysian, Dionysus, Father Liber, Gnaeus Naevius, He, It, Liber, Libera, Liberalia, March, Naevius, Nonetheless, Persephone, Roman Forum, Romans
related to In later arts · 16
Marsyas → Apollo, Apollonian, Bartolomeo Manfredi, Dionysian, Flaying, In, Jusepe, Louis Art Museum, Luca Giordano, Michelangelo Anselmi, Paintings, Ribera, St, The, The Flaying, Titian
related to The finding of the aulos · 16
Marsyas → AD, Apollo, Athena, Athenian, BC, In, Later, Melanippides, Melanippides's, Melos, Myron, Parthenon, Pausanias, Silenos, Telestes, The
related to The wise Marsyas · 15
Marsyas → Alcibiades, Art, Diodorus Siculus, Greeks, Hellenistic, History, In Plato's Symposium, Institute, Jocelyn Small, New York University, Roman Forum, Socrates, Studies, The, This
related to Marsyas and Apollo · 13
Marsyas → According, Apollo, Apollo's, Diodorus Siculus, However, Hyginus, In, Muses, Nysean, The Nysean, There, This, When
related to External links · 12
Marsyas → Classical, Database, Encyclopædia Britannica, English, Media, The Ancient Library, The Warburg Institute Iconographic, Theoi Project, Vol, Wikimedia Commons, Wiktionary-logo-en-v2, XV
related to The Louvre's Apollo–Marsyas sarcophagus · 11
Marsyas → Apollo, Athena, CE, Chiarone, Emilia-Aurelia, Erichthonius, In Greek, Its, Ovid's Metamorphoses, The, Tuscany
related to Family · 6
Marsyas → Alternatively, His, Hyagnis, Oeagrus, Olympus, When
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Marsyas → Apollo, Arachne, AthenaBabys, Brother

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Marsyasrelated to External linksWiktionary-logo-en-v20.60section
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Marsyasrelated to External linksThe Ancient Library0.60section
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Marsyasrelated to External linksClassical0.60section
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