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.
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.
And when they had put away craving for drink and food, they started out with the lord Apollo, the son of Zeus, to lead them, holding a lyre in his hands, and playing sweetly as he stepped high and featly.
Leto's all-glorious son goes to rocky Pytho, playing upon his hollow lyre, clad in divine, perfumed garments;