Apollo's lyre
object · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
golden key · his lyre · hollow lyre · lyre
in the texts
Iliad
The lyre played by Apollo to accompany the Muses' singing at the gods' feast.
Apollo struck his lyre, and the Muses lifted up their sweet voices, taking turns.
Hymn 3 to Delian and Pythian Apollo
Apollo's lyre is his divine musical instrument, central to Olympian song and the Cretan procession to Pytho.
Leto's all-glorious son goes to rocky Pytho, playing upon his hollow lyre, clad in divine, perfumed garments;
-->“The lyre and the curved bow shall ever be dear to me, and I will declare to men the unfailing will of Zeus.
Among them sport Ares and the keen-eyed Slayer of Argus, while Apollo plays his lyre stepping high and featly and a radiance shines around him, the gleaming of his feet and close-woven vest.