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    The Atlas·Figures

    Marsyas

    mythological figure · 8 works · 8 mentions · 9 anchored passages

    Marsyas the Silenus · our Marsyas · our satyr

    in the texts

    De legendis gentilium librisLate Antiquity · Greek

    Mythological satyr-musician invoked as a distraction contrary to proper athletic training.

    But if they had busied themselves with the strains of Marsyas or of Olympus the Phrygian, leaving the dust and the gymnasiums, would they soon have won crowns or glory, or escaped being a laughing-stock in body?
    de legendis gentilium libris

    StromataLate Antiquity · Greek

    Phrygian musician credited with inventing several musical harmonies.

    for Olympus and Marsyas were Phrygians.
    book 1
    as also that Marsyas, of the same country as those just named, found the Phrygian, the mixophrygian, and the mixolydian harmonies;
    book 1

    OrationsImperial · Greek

    Mythical musician (satyr) associated with the flute.

    For Sardanapallus would never have been roused from his chamber and from among his women, not only not by a Timotheus or any other of the younger musicians, but not even by Marsyas himself or Olympus;
    oration 1

    The HistoriesClassical · Greek

    Mythical satyr (Silenus) said in Phrygian tradition to have been flayed by Apollo, whose skin was displayed at Celaenae.

    The skin of Marsyas the Silenus also hangs there;
    chapter 7

    EuthydemusClassical · Greek

    Mythical satyr flayed after losing a musical contest with Apollo, invoked by Ctesippus as a comic image for submitting his own hide to the sophists.

    I too, Socrates, am ready to offer myself to be skinned by the strangers even more, if they choose, than they are doing now, if my hide is not to end by being made into a wine-skin, like that of Marsyas, but into the shape of virtue.
    euthydemus

    RepublicClassical · Greek

    Satyr associated with the flute, contrasted unfavorably with Apollo's lyre in the discussion of instruments.

    We are not innovating, my friend, in preferring Apollo and the instruments of Apollo to Marsyas and his instruments.
    chapter 3

    SymposiumClassical · Greek

    Mythical satyr and flute-player who taught Olympus and was known for entrancing music

    And I further suggest that he resembles the satyr Marsyas.
    symposium
    Such then is the effect that our satyr can work upon me and many another with his piping;
    symposium

    AnabasisClassical · Greek

    Mythological musician associated with the river Marsyas.

    It was here, according to the story, that Apollo flayed Marsyas, after having defeated him in a contest of musical skill;
    chapter 1