Marsyas

Role: Satyr · First appears: Fable 58

Life events

• Apollo defeats Marsyas in a flute contest and flays him alive.(Fable58)
  • With: Apollo
  • “The Satyr Marsyas, having challenged Apollo to a trial of skill on the flute, the God overcomes him, and then flays him alive for his presumption.”
• Marsyas’s tears become a river that bears his name.(Fable58 · 📍 Phrygia)
  • “And then, as the clearest river in Phrygia, running towards the rapid sea within steep banks, it bears the name of Marsyas.”

Fable 58

• rivals with Apollo “The Satyr Marsyas, having challenged Apollo to a trial of skill on the flute, the God overcomes him, and then flays him alive for his presumption.”
• with Apollo (Apollo flays Marsyas alive after defeating him.) “The Satyr Marsyas, having challenged Apollo to a trial of skill on the flute, the God overcomes him, and then flays him alive for his presumption.”
• siblings with Olympus “He was a Satyr, the brother and pupil of Marsyas.”
• pupil: Olympus “He was a Satyr, the brother and pupil of Marsyas.”

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Extracted from the original text of The Metamorphoses of Ovid. Made with Rho MD.