Marsyas

First appears: Apollodorus, Library 1.4

🌐 Also appears in: The Metamorphoses of Ovid (as Marsyas)

Life events

• Apollo won the musical contest and killed Marsyas by hanging and flaying him.(Apollodorus, Library 1.4)
  • With: Apollo Athena
  • “Apollo was judged the victor and despatched Marsyas by hanging him on a tall pine tree and stripping off his skin.”

Apollodorus, Library 1.4

• parent: Olympus “Apollo also slew Marsyas, the son of Olympus”
• rivals with Apollo “For Marsyas, having found the pipes which Athena had thrown away because they disfigured her face, engaged in a musical contest with Apollo”
• enemies with Apollo “Marsyas could not, so Apollo was judged the victor and despatched Marsyas by hanging him on a tall pine tree and stripping off his skin”
• with Athena (interaction) “Marsyas, having found the pipes which Athena had thrown away because they disfigured her face”
• with Apollo (interaction) “Apollo was judged the victor and despatched Marsyas by hanging him on a tall pine tree and stripping off his skin”

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Extracted from the original text of Greek Mythology. Made with Rho MD.