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