Marsyas could not do this, as he only knew how to use the flute and could not sing at the same time.

The 5th-century poet Telestes doubted that virginal Athena could have been motivated by such vanity, but in the 2nd century AD, on the Acropolis of Athens itself, the voyager Pausanias saw " a statue of Athena striking Marsyas the Silenos for taking up the flutes that the goddess wished to be cast away for good.

In the contest between Apollo and Marsyas, the terms stated that the winner could treat the defeated party any way he wanted.

This was something that Marsyas could not do with his flute.

He indeed with instruments used to charm the souls of men by the power of his breath, and the players of his music do so still: for the melodies of Olympus are derived from Marsyas who taught them [...] But you produce the same effect with your words only, and do not require the flute: that is the difference between you and him.

Once, Pan had the audacity to compare his music with that of Apollo, and challenged Apollo, the god of the lyre, to a trial of skill ( also see Marsyas ).

A few say she invented the aulos or double-flute, though most mythographers credit Marsyas with its invention.

Marsyas protested, arguing that the skill with the instrument was to be compared, not the voice.

He was cursed by Agamemnon and subsequently punished by Apollo, who beat him in a musical contest ( similar to that between Apollo and Marsyas, to see who was a better musician with a lyre ) and killed him, whereupon Cinyras ' fifty daughters threw themselves into the sea and were changed into sea birds.

The Mantineia Marble, dated to the 4th century BC and now exhibited at National Archaeological Museum of Athens depicts the mythical contest between Apollo and Marsyas, with a Greek Pandouris being played by a muse seated on a rock.

His garden was filled with works of art, particularly Greek sculpture, both originals and copies of “ old masters ”, and has thus been a rich archaeological source of ancient sculpture-the statue of the ' Scythian knife sharpener ' ( now thought to depict the executioner getting ready to flay Marsyas ) which the Medici removed to Florence, for example, was found in this garden.

He was known to have painted an assembly of gods, Eros crowned with roses, Alcmene, Menelaus, an athlete, Pan, Marsyas chained and an old woman.

He unwisely competed in music with the Olympian Apollo and inevitably lost, whereupon Apollo flayed Marsyas alive and provocatively hung his skin on Cybele's own sacred tree, a pine.

According to some its sources were the same as those of the river Marsyas ; but this is irreconcilable with Xenophon, according to whom the sources of the two rivers were only near each other, the Marsyas rising in a royal palace.

The song was also covered by Czech folk rock band Marsyas, albeit under a different name ( Studená koupel-Cold Bath ) and with Czech lyrics.

In the following years, he published several poetry collections and in 1917 he began the literary magazine Marsyas with texts from authors like Alfred Döblin and Hermann Hesse.

Marsyas was an expert player on the double-piped reed instrument known as the aulos.

The source of our knowledge about this instrument is the Mantineia marble ( 4th century BC ), now exhibited at the National Archaeological Museum of Athens, depicting the mythical contest between Apollo and Marsyas, where a pandura is being played by a muse seated on a rock.

The Thracians also used to celebrate the New Year's Eve on the first day of March, a month which took the name of the god Marsyas Silen, the inventor of the pipe ( fluier, traditional musical instrument ), whose cult was related to the land and vegetation.

Marsyas, the satyr who first formed the instrument using the hollowed antler of a stag, was a Phrygian follower of Cybele.

In Greek mythology, the satyr Marsyas () is a central figure in two stories involving death: in one, he picked up the double flute ( aulos ) that had been abandoned by Athena and played it ; in the other, he challenged Apollo to a contest of music and lost his hide and life.

There are alternative sources of this story which state that it wasn't actually Marsyas who challenged Apollo but Apollo who challenged Marsyas because of his jealousy of the satyr's ability to play the flute.

), a Perseus, a satyr — Marsyas — admiring the flute and Minerva ( Athena ), a Hercules, which was taken to the shrine dedicated by Pompey the Great at the Circus Maximus, Discobolus ( the discus thrower ), and an Apollo for Ephesus, " which Antony the triumvir took from the Ephesians, but the deified Augustus restored it again after being warned in a dream ".

He then compares Socrates to the satyr Marsyas ; Socrates, however, needs no flute to " cast his spells " upon people as Marsyas did -- he needs only his words ( 215b-d ).

The myth is illustrated by two paintings, " Apollo and Marsyas " by Palma il Giovane ( 1544 – 1628 ), one depicting the scene before, and one after, the punishment.

In two late Roman sources, Hyginus and Ovid, Pan is substituted for the satyr Marsyas in the theme of a musical competition ( agon ), and the punishment by flaying is omitted.

When a genealogy was applied to him, Marsyas was the son of Olympus ( son of Heracles and Euboea, daughter of Thespius ), or of Oeagrus, or of Hyagnis.

Apollo then nailed Marsyas ' skin to a pine tree, near Lake Aulocrene ( the Turkish Karakuyu Gölü ), which Strabo noted was full of the reeds from which the pipes were fashioned.

The hubristic Marsyas in surviving literary sources eclipses the figure of the wise Marsyas suggested in a few words by the Hellenistic historian Diodorus Siculus, who refers to Marsyas as admired for his intelligence ( sunesis ) and self-control ( sophrosune ), not qualities found by Greeks in ordinary satyrs.

The Carians gathered at the " White Pillars ", on the Marsyas River ( the modern Çine ), a tributary of the Maeander.

A permanent exhibition called Max Švabinský Memorial can be seen in the Museum of Kroměříž Region (), located in the lower part of Big Square ( Velké náměstí ), near the entrance to the Bishop's Palace ( Gallery-Titian ´ s Marsyas ).

A fragment of the Macedonian historian Marsyas of Pella ( 4th century BC ), through a scholiast of Iliad xiv 226 < ref > Frg 13, Greek text: confirms the genealogy as found in the Catalogue of Women: " Makedon son of Zeus and Thyia, conquered the land then belonging to Thrace and he called it Macedonia after his name.

Apollo has ominous aspects aside from his plague-bringing, death-dealing arrows: Marsyas was a satyr who challenged Apollo to a contest of music.

Apollo flayed Marsyas alive in a cave near Celaenae in Phrygia for his hubris to challenge a god.

Diodorus Siculus felt that Apollo must have repented this " excessive " deed, and said that he had laid aside his lyre for a while, but Karl Kerenyi observes of the flaying of Marsyas ' " shaggy hide: a penalty which will not seem especially cruel if one assumes that Marsyas ' animal guise was merely a masquerade.

His brothers, nymphs, gods and goddesses mourned his death, and their tears, according to Ovid's Metamorphoses, were the source of the river Marsyas in Phrygia, which joins the Meander near Celaenae, where Herodotus reported that the flayed skin of Marsyas was still to be seen, and Ptolemy Hephaestion recorded a " festival of Apollo, where the skins of all those victims one has flayed are offered to the god.

There are several versions of the contest ; according to Hyginus, Marsyas was departing as victor after the first round, when Apollo, turning his lyre upside down, played the same tune.

According to another version Marsyas was defeated when Apollo added his voice to the sound of the lyre.

However, Apollo replied that when Marsyas blew into the pipes, he was doing almost the same thing himself.

" Three slabs which have survived represent Apollo ; Marsyas ; a slave, and six of the Muses, the slab which held the other three having disappeared.

He was chosen to be a judge between the famous musical contest between Apollo and Marsyas.