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Marsyas

In Greek mythology, a Phrygian satyr who found the flute discarded by the goddess Athena and challenged Apollo to a musical contest judged by the Muses. On losing, he was flayed alive, his blood sourcing the River Marsyas.

Athena had invented the flute but rejected the instrument as playing it distorted her face. The story was described in Ovid's Metamorphoses.



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I thought of Marsyas, whom the god flayed because he had dared to rival him in song.
Moon and Sixpence by Maugham, W. Somerset View in context
It seems to me that you are the young Apollo and that I am Marsyas listening to you.
The Picture Of Dorian Gray by Wilde, Oscar View in context
The preferring of Apollo and his instruments to Marsyas and his instruments is not at all strange, I said.
The Republic by Plato View in context
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