Thamyris
mythological figure · 4 works · 4 mentions · 4 anchored passages
conquered Thamyris · that mountain wizard
in the texts
Stromata
Thracian credited with devising the Dorian harmony.
and that Thamyris the Thracian devised the Dorian.
Orations
Mythical Thracian bard who challenged the Muses in a musical contest and was punished.
And in truth Thamyris, who knew very well how to play the lyre, and contended with the very Muses concerning harmony, was for this reason blinded, and besides unlearned the lyre-playing.
Rhesus
A legendary Thracian musician who challenged the Muses to a contest of song and was struck blind for his presumption.
O conquered Thamyris, is this thy bane
’Gainst all the Muses, did my flesh abase
Provoked to meet in bitter strife of song
Iliad
Legendary minstrel who boasted he could outsing the Muses and was punished with the loss of his gift, a story attached to the site of Dorium.
Pteleum, Helos, and Dorium, where the Muses met Thamyris, and stilled his minstrelsy for ever.
They robbed him of his divine power of song, and thenceforth he could strike the lyre no more.