Explore: Marsyas (a Satyr)

In Greek mythology, the satyr Marsyas (/ˈmɑːrsiəs/; Ancient Greek: Μαρσύας) is a central figure in two stories involving music: in one, he picked up the

story of Marsyas's hubris. He describes a musical contest between Marsyas, playing the aulos, and the god Apollo, playing the lyre. Marsyas loses and

there is a partial signature on the stone in the foreground. The painting shows the killing by flaying or skinning alive of Marsyas, a satyr who rashly

have had their skin removed. In Greek mythology, Marsyas, a satyr, was flayed alive after losing a musical contest to Apollo. Also according to Greek

spiders Marsyas, a satyr who engaged in a musical contest with Apollo and also suffered for his presumption Medusa, who was also transformed as a result

flute on the Earth. Later it was picked up by Marsyas, a satyr (half-man, half-goat) who lived guarding a small river tributary of the Meander, in Anatolia

with Apollo of Pan and Marsyas were very often confused, so Titian's Flaying of Marsyas includes a figure of Midas (who may be a self-portrait), though

which Marsyas could not do. In another account, Marsyas played out of tune and accepted defeat. In all accounts, Apollo then flayed Marsyas alive for

Harmonides died from excessive blowing during practicing. In myth, Marsyas the satyr was supposed to have invented the aulos, or else picked it up after

satyr Marsyas picking up an aulos dropped by Athena. The sculpture is mentioned twice in the ancient sources. Pausanias writes: “In this place is a statue