marsyas in English
noun
1
a satyr who challenged Apollo to a contest in flute playing and was flayed alive when he lost.
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1. In one myth, the Muses judged a contest between Apollo and Marsyas.
2. Statue of the Greek god Marsyas flayed alive on a tree trunk —The Louvre, Paris
3. Going even deeper into the myth, the musical competition between Apollo and Marsyas also highlights the “continuous” struggle between two musical styles: citharodic and Auletic
4. Alcibiades compares Socrates to the satyr Marsyas, who is a demi-god, making Socrates a “daimonic man,” just as Socrates had argued Love was between mortal and immortal, a spirit