page_title: Marsyas
hierarchical_section_title: Marsyas
caption_attribution_description: English: Statue of the satyr Marsyas, Archaeological Museum of Istanbul, Turkey. Roman copy of an original from the 3rd century BC. Français&#160;: Statue du satyre Marsyas, Musée archéologique d'Istanbul, Turquie. Copie romaine d’après un original du 3ème siècle av. J.-C. Português: Estátua do sátiro Marsias, Museu Arqueológico de Istambul, Turquia. Cópia romana de um original do 3o século a.C.
context_page_description: In Greek mythology, the satyr Marsyas is a central figure in two stories involving music: in one, he picked up the double oboe 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. In antiquity, literary sources often emphasize the hubris of Marsyas and the justice of his punishment.
  In one strand of modern comparative mythography, the domination of Marsyas by Apollo is regarded as an example of myth that recapitulates a supposed supplanting by the Olympian pantheon of an earlier "Pelasgian" religion of chthonic heroic ancestors and nature spirits. Marsyas was a devoté of the ancient Mother Goddess Rhea/Cybele, and his episodes are situated by the mythographers in Celaenae, in Phrygia, at the main source of the Meander.
context_section_description: In Greek mythology, the satyr  Marsyas (/ˈmɑːrsiəs/; Greek: Μαρσύας) is a central figure in two stories involving music: in one, he picked up the double oboe (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. In antiquity, literary sources often emphasize the hubris of Marsyas and the justice of his punishment.
  In one strand of modern comparative mythography, the domination of Marsyas by Apollo is regarded as an example of myth that recapitulates a supposed supplanting by the Olympian pantheon of an earlier "Pelasgian" religion of chthonic heroic ancestors and nature spirits. Marsyas was a devoté of the ancient Mother Goddess Rhea/Cybele, and his episodes are situated by the mythographers in Celaenae (or Kelainai), in Phrygia, at the main source of the Meander (the river Menderes in Turkey).
caption: Marsyas receiving Apollo's punishment, İstanbul Archaeology Museum
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