Marsyas
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Encyclopedic overview
12 sectionsContents
- Family
- Mythology
- The finding of the aulos
- Marsyas and Apollo
- The wise Marsyas
- Prophecy and free speech at Rome
- The Louvre's Apollo–Marsyas sarcophagus
- In later arts
- See also
- Notes
- References
- External links
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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.
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