person
Marsyas
also: the satyr
The satyr who took up Minerva’s cast-away flute, challenged Apollo, and was flayed for his defeat.
Reading notes
- Letters from the Black Sea §3.3 Phrygian Satyr
Marsyas, the Phrygian satyr and master of the pipes, teacher of Olympus; flayed by Apollo for challenging him in music.
- The Festivals §6.12 satyr
Marsyas, who took up Minerva's discarded flute, challenged Apollo, and was flayed for losing.
- Ibis §17 whose name a Phrygian river bears
Marsyas, the satyr flayed alive by Apollo; his blood became the Phrygian river named after him.
- Metamorphoses §6.141 the satyr
A satyr of Phrygia who challenged Apollo to a contest of pipe against lyre; beaten, he was flayed alive, and the river Marsyas rose from the tears wept for him.