Linos (mythology)
Linos ( Greek Λίνος ) is a person from Greek mythology .
He is a son of Apollo , is considered the son of Calliope and was Heracles' music teacher . According to Pausanias he was the son of Urania and Amphimaros . Because he compared his song to Apollo, he was killed by him. Other sources considered him to be the inventor of letters and taught Herakles to write. When he once wrongly punished him, Heracles slew him in anger. According to Pausanias, however, this is said to have been another Linos, son of Ismenios.
The Athenian poet Pamphos called him Oitolinos ("unlucky linos"). He was buried in Thebes . After the battle of Chaeronea , Philip II is said to have transferred the bones of Linos to Macedonia because of a dream . Another dream moved him to bring the bones back to Thebes. He was sacrificed in front of the Muses in the Muses' shrine on Helikon . There was also an image of Linos carved into the rock here.
From Homer , Iliad 18.570, it can be seen that Linos also meant a certain type of song. At the point indicated in the description of the shield that Hephaestus made for Achilles, a singer performed it during the grape harvest and accompanied his singing on the Phorminx . Later the Linoslied was a lament for the death of Linos. It has a certain resemblance to the Egyptian maneros song.
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Individual evidence
- ^ Libraries of Apollodor i. 3, § 2; Pausanias i. 43. § 7,787-ii 19. § 7; Eustathius von Homer, §1164
- ^ Pausanias ix. 29. § 6
- ^ Pausanias ix. 29. § 6-9