Thamyris

When a Thracian poet named Thamyris challenged the nine muses to a singing contest and lost, they blinded him and struck him dumb.

Where Have All the Muses Gone? 2009

Eyes closed, Daphnis is blind as Thamyris who kissed

Kouroi Hal Duncan 2005

Eyes closed, Daphnis is blind as Thamyris who kissed

Archive 2005-01-01 Hal Duncan 2005

Eyes closed, Daphnis is blind as Thamyris who kissed

Notes From The Geek Show Hal Duncan 1999

Eyes closed, Daphnis is blind as Thamyris who kissed

Archive 1999-01-01 Hal Duncan 1999

He seizes the psalterion -- Balaustion must let him use it for once -- and sings the song, from Sophocles, of Thamyris marching to his doom.

Browning's Heroines Ethel Colburn Mayne

He gives some verses, [117: 1] then breaks off in laughter, having, as he says, "sung content back to himself," since he is _not_ Thamyris, but

Browning's Heroines Ethel Colburn Mayne

An instance of this is seen in the case of Thamyris, a Thracian bard, who presumed to invite them to a trial of skill in music.

Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome E.M. Berens

Thamyris, an ancient Thracian bard, boldly challenged them to a trial of skill, and, on being overcome by them in the contest, was deprived by them of his sight and of the power of singing.

Woman's Work in Music Arthur Elson

From the summer of 1885 to the fall of 1887 I lived in Dresden, where I wrote the scenes from the revolution, Saint Just (1885) (reworked for the stage in German in 1913 and still not published), and the dramatic-lyrical poem «Thamyris» (1887).

Karl Gjellerup - Autobiography 1917