Thamyris
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In Greek mythology, Thamyris, son of Philammon and the nymph Argiope, was a Thracian singer who was so proud of his skill that he boasted he could outsing the Muses. He competed against them and lost. As punishment for his presumption they paralysed him, and took away his ability to make poetry and to play the lyre. This outline of the story is told in the Iliad.[1]
This allusion is taken up in Euripides' Rhesus, in the Library attributed to Apollodorus, and in the Scholia on the Iliad. These later sources add the details that Thamyris had claimed as his prize, if he should win the contest, the privilege of having sex with all the Muses (according to one version) or of marrying one of them (according to another); and that after his death he was further punished in Hades. The story demonstrates that poetic inspiration, a gift of the gods, can be taken away by the gods.[2]
According to Diodorus the mythical singer Linus took three pupils, Heracles, Thamyris and Orpheus, which neatly settles Thamyris's legendary chronology.[3] When Pliny the Elder briefly sketches the origins of music he credits Thamyris with inventing the Dorian mode and with being the first to play the cithara as a solo instrument with no voice accompaniment.[4]
A lost epic, Titanomachy, attributed to the blind Thracian bard Thamyris, himself a legendary figure, was mentioned in passing in an essay On Music that was once attributed to Plutarch.
Thamyris is said to have been a lover of Hyacinthus and thus to have been the first man to have loved another male.[5]
Thamyris is another name for the ancient Greek painter Timarete and also the name of a Theban who was killed by Actor.
The Titanomachy is a lost epic poem, which is a part of Greek mythology. It deals with the struggle that Zeus and his siblings, the Olympic gods, had in overthrowing their father Cronus and his
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This allusion is taken up in Euripides' Rhesus, in the Library attributed to Apollodorus, and in the Scholia on the Iliad. These later sources add the details that Thamyris had claimed as his prize, if he should win the contest, the privilege of having sex with all the Muses (according to one version) or of marrying one of them (according to another); and that after his death he was further punished in Hades. The story demonstrates that poetic inspiration, a gift of the gods, can be taken away by the gods.[2]
According to Diodorus the mythical singer Linus took three pupils, Heracles, Thamyris and Orpheus, which neatly settles Thamyris's legendary chronology.[3] When Pliny the Elder briefly sketches the origins of music he credits Thamyris with inventing the Dorian mode and with being the first to play the cithara as a solo instrument with no voice accompaniment.[4]
A lost epic, Titanomachy, attributed to the blind Thracian bard Thamyris, himself a legendary figure, was mentioned in passing in an essay On Music that was once attributed to Plutarch.
Thamyris is said to have been a lover of Hyacinthus and thus to have been the first man to have loved another male.[5]
Thamyris is another name for the ancient Greek painter Timarete and also the name of a Theban who was killed by Actor.
Notes
1. ^ Iliad 2.594-600.
2. ^ Apollodorus, Library 1.3.3; Scholia on the Iliad 2.595. See Dalby, Andrew (2006), Rediscovering Homer, New York, London: Norton, ISBN 0393057887, p. 96.
3. ^ Diodorus Siculus 3.67.
4. ^ Pliny, Natural History 7.207.
5. ^ Apollodorus, Library 1.3.3.
2. ^ Apollodorus, Library 1.3.3; Scholia on the Iliad 2.595. See Dalby, Andrew (2006), Rediscovering Homer, New York, London: Norton, ISBN 0393057887, p. 96.
3. ^ Diodorus Siculus 3.67.
4. ^ Pliny, Natural History 7.207.
5. ^ Apollodorus, Library 1.3.3.
External link
- Donatella Restani, "Music and myth in ancient Greece" with literary references to Thamyris
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In Greek mythology, Philammon was the son of Chione and Apollo. He was an excellent musician, a talent he received from his father. He had two children, Eumolpus and Thamyris.
Ovid XI, 317.
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Ovid XI, 317.
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Died: Circa 120 AD
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