Olympus (musician)

Olympos (* and † 750 BC) was a legendary Greek singer and musician, who supposedly lived around 750 BC.

Life

He should come from Mysia or Phrygia, which symbolize the penetration of the small Asian music to Greece or to personalize. One writes to him to have the Aulos, some kind of double oboe, invented and introduced the solo game for this instrument. The " mythical " singer and musician was a "pupil of Marsyas the flute and the ancestor of a Phrygian race, in which the art of flute playing was hereditary. This belonged to the Olympos, who trained in the 7th century BC the auletischen Nomos. "