Linus
mythological figure · 2 works · 5 mentions · 5 anchored passages
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Stromata
Mythical lyre-player described by Hesiod as skilled in every kind of wisdom.
" Hesiod, calling the lyre-player Linus "skilled in every kind of wisdom," does not shrink from calling a sailor too "wise," writing of one "in no way made wise in seamanship.
The Greeks say that, after Orpheus and Linus and the most ancient of the poets among them, the first to be admired for wisdom were the seven called the Sages.
And if anyone tells us that Phemonoe first delivered oracles to Acrisius, let him know that twenty-seven years after Phemonoe came Orpheus and Musaeus and Linus, the teacher of Heracles.
Heracles
Mythical musician mourned by Apollo in a dirge, invoked by the Chorus as a contrast to their own celebratory song for Heracles.
Phoebus is singing a dirge, after his happier strains, for Linus dead in his beauty, striking his lyre with key of gold;