Thamyris

Thamyris (Greek Θάμυρις ) or Thamyras is a famous singer, poet and lyre - player of Greek mythology.

In Homer in the Iliad (II, 594-600 ) we read this:

Where the Muses ... Finding the Thracians Thamyris once deprived of song, The Öchalia came out of Eurytos. For if vermessend Brags ' he loudly to win in the song, and sang well himself Against him the Muses, the daughters Ägiserschütterers. But the angry punished with blindness those, and took Him the sweet vocals, and the art of sounding harp.

Even later, the fate of the singer remained a popular motif. Thus Sophocles wrote, according to Athenaeus about this subject a youth drama in which he appeared in the premiere himself in the role of the title character as Kitharöde.

Ancient sources

• Libraries of Apollodorus I, 3.3
• Diodorus Siculus III, 67
• (Pseudo) Euripides Rhesus 915-925
• Homer Iliad II 594-600
• Pausanias, Description of Greece, IV, 33.3; IV, 33.7; X, 28.2
• Plato Ion 533b - 533c
• Pliny Naturalis historia 7,207
• Plutarch De musica 1132a -b
• Zenobius Proverbes IV, 27

• Person of Greek mythology