Falsafa

Comma for either/or — dharma, courage. Spelling forgiving — corage finds courage.

    The Atlas·Objects

    Lyre

    object · 7 works · 8 mentions · 14 anchored passages

    lyre · a lyre · box full of pleasure · clear-voiced companion · hidden machine · his lyre · hollow lyre · instrument · marvellous thing · seven-tongued lyre

    spoken of as

    1 expression

    The lyre2 mentions

    Odyssey (Greek) · Theaetetus (Greek)

    Then Phemios took his lyre and set them all longing for sweet song and stately dance.
    chapter 23

    in the texts

    OdysseyClassical · Greek

    The instrument brought to Phemios so that he may sing for the suitors at their feast.

    As soon as they had had enough to eat and drink they wanted music and dancing, which are the crowning embellishments of a banquet, so a servant brought a lyre to Phemios, whom they compelled perforce to sing to them.
    chapter 1
    Then Phemios took his lyre and set them all longing for sweet song and stately dance.
    chapter 23

    Hymn 25 To the Muses and ApolloClassical · Greek

    A musical instrument played by performers whose art is associated with the Muses and Apollo.

    For it is through the Muses and Apollo that there are singers upon the earth and players upon the lyre;
    hymn 25 to the muses and apollo

    Hymn 4 to HermesClassical · Greek

    The lyre is the musical instrument Hermes invents from the tortoise and gives to Apollo in exchange for reconciliation and honors.

    Then the son of Maia, harping sweetly upon his lyre, took courage and stood at the left hand of Phoebus Apollo;
    hymn 4 to hermes
    Also he put in the horns and fitted a cross-piece upon the two of them, and stretched seven strings of sheep-gut.
    hymn 4 to hermes
    has this marvellous thing been with you from your birth, or did some god or mortal man give it you —a noble gift —and teach you heavenly song?
    hymn 4 to hermes

    Hymn 5 to AphroditeClassical · Greek

    The lyre appears as an object of Artemis's delight and as the instrument Anchises plays alone at the homestead.

    for she loves archery and the slaying of wild beasts in the mountains, the lyre also and dancing and thrilling cries and shady woods and the cities of upright men.
    hymn 5 to aphrodite
    All the others were following the herds over the grassy pastures, and he, left quite alone in the homestead, was roaming hither and thither and playing thrillingly upon the lyre.
    hymn 5 to aphrodite

    NemeanClassical · Greek

    The stringed instrument central to the performance of victory song, played by Apollo and addressed directly by the poet.

    And warm water does not wet the limbs so gently as praise that accompanies the lyre.
    chapter 4
    Pelion, and among them Apollo, sweeping the seven-tongued lyre with a golden plectrum, led all types of strains.
    chapter 5
    Weave out, sweet lyre, right now, the beloved song with Lydian harmony, for Oenone and Cyprus, where Teucer the son of Telamon reigns far from home;
    chapter 4

    TheaetetusClassical · Greek

    A musical instrument used in Socrates's analogy about judging expertise before trusting a claim.

    Now if we each had a lyre, and he said we had tuned them to the same key, should we take his word for it without more ado, or should we inquire first whether he who said it was a musician?
    theaetetus

    IchneutaeClassical · Greek

    The lyre is Hermes's newly made instrument, first heard as a terrifying unknown sound and later explained as a voice made from a dead animal.

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