ABSTRACT
A Thracian minstrel, the son of Philammon and the nymph Argiope. His mother, when pregnant, was repudiated by Philammon; and so she went far away to Thrace to be delivered of her son. Thamyris was the first man to fall in love with a boy, conceiving a passion for Hyacinthus. Having won singing competitions at Delphi, he ventured to challenge the Muses at song, but in the contest, which took place at Dorium in Messenia, he was the loser. The Muses paid him back for his impudence by blinding him and removing his gift of minstrelsy; and after his death he was punished among the presumptuous in Tartarus.
