Myths about Lyre

Following his failure to rescue Eurydice from the Underworld, the master musician Orpheus retreated to the slopes of Mount Olympus, where he shunned all women and turned his devotion to Apollo. His refusal to participate in the ecstatic rituals of Dionysus led to a violent confrontation with the Maenads. In a frenzy of divine madness, the women tore him limb from limb, an act so horrific that...

On the day of his birth on Mount Cyllene, the infant god Hermes escaped his cradle to steal fifty sacred cows from his brother Apollo. He cleverly hid their tracks by making them walk backward and inventing giant brushwood sandals for himself. The myth concludes with the invention of the lyre and a diplomatic resolution between the brothers on Mount Olympus.