    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;the folk of celaenae held "that the song of the mother, an air for the flute, was composed by marsyas", according to pausanias (x.30.9). in the other, he challenged apollo to a contest of music and lost his hide and life. in antiquity, literary sources often emphasise the hubris of marsyas and the justice of his punishment. in one conjunction rhea/cybele, and his episodes are situated by the mythographers in celaenae (or kelainai) in phrygia (today, the town of dinar in turkey), at the main source of the meander (the river menderes).the river is linked to the figure of marsyas by herodotus (histories, 7.26) and xenophon (anabasis, 1.2.8). 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.hyagnis (greek: á½Î¬Î³Î½Î¹Ï, gen.: á½Î¬Î³Î½Î¹Î´Î¿Ï, or á¼Î³Î½Î¹Ï) was a mythical musician from phrygia who was considered to be the inventor of the aulos. hyagnis was also one of the three mythical phrygian musicians (along with marsyas and olympus) to whom the ancient greeks attributed the invention of the phrygian mode in music(see anthi dipla:2001). olympus was, alternatively, said to be marsyas' son or pupil. ==the finding of the aulos== marsyas was an expert player on the double-piped reed instrument known as the aulos. in the anecdotal account, he found the instrument on the ground where it had been tossed aside with a curse by its inventor, athena, after the other gods made sport of how her cheeks bulged when she played. the 5th-century poet telestes doubted that virginal athena could have been motivated by such vanity,telestes, fr. 805, quoted in deipnosophistae but in the 2nd century ad, on the acropolis of athens itself, the voyager pausanias saw "a stat
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