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Marsyas (other)
Marsyas is a satyr who had a music contest with Apollo. Marsyas may also refer to: * Marsyas (horse) Marsyas (also known as Marsyas II, 1940–30 May 1964) was a French Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. He was the dominant stayer in France in the mid-1940s winning four consecutive editions of the 4,000 metre Prix du Cadran between 1944 and 19 ..., a French Thoroughbred racehorse * 343158 Marsyas, an Apollo asteroid on a retrograde orbit Art * A bust of a screaming Marsyas, sculpted by Balthasar Permoser * ''Marsyas'' (sculpture), a sculpture by Anish Kapoor and Cecil Balmond Biology * ''Marsyas'' (beetle), a genus of beetles in the family Carabidae * '' Pseudolycaena marsyas'', a species of butterfly People * Marsyas Painter (4th century BC), ancient Greek vase painter * Marsyas of Pella (356–294), ancient Greek historian * Marsyas of Philippi (3rd century BC), ancient Greek historian {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marsyas
In Greek mythology, the satyr Marsyas (; grc-gre, Μαρσύας) is a central figure in two stories involving music: in one, he picked up the double oboe (''aulos'') that had been abandoned by Athena and played it; in the other, he challenged Apollo to a contest of music and lost his hide and life. In antiquity, literary sources often emphasize the ''hubris'' of Marsyas and the justice of his punishment. In one strand of modern comparative mythography, the domination of Marsyas by Apollo is regarded as an example of myth that recapitulates a supposed supplanting by the Olympian pantheon of an earlier "Pelasgian" religion of chthonic heroic ancestors and nature spirits. Marsyas was a devoté of the ancient Mother Goddess Rhea/Cybele, and his episodes are situated by the mythographers in Celaenae (or Kelainai), in Phrygia, at the main source of the Meander (the river Menderes in Turkey). Family When a genealogy was applied to him, Marsyas was the son of the "divine" Hyag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marsyas (horse)
Marsyas (also known as Marsyas II, 1940–30 May 1964) was a French Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. He was the dominant stayer in France in the mid-1940s winning four consecutive editions of the 4,000 metre Prix du Cadran between 1944 and 1947. He proved equally successful when campaigned in Britain in 1946. After winning seventeen of his twenty-seven races, he was retired to stud where he had limited success as a sire of winners. Background Marsyas was a chestnut horse with a narrow white blaze and white socks on his hind legs, bred by his owner Marcel Boussac at his Haras de Fresnay-le-Buffard in Neuvy-au-Houlme in Lower Normandy. He was sired by the British-bred stallion Trimdon winner of the Ascot Gold Cup in 1931 and 1932. Marsyas's dam was the highly successful broodmare Astronomie, whose other progeny included the undefeated Caracalla, Arbar, and Asmena. Racing career Marsyas's early career took place during the Second World War which meant that he was confined to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
343158 Marsyas
343158 Marsyas ( ''prov. designated'' ) is an asteroid on a retrograde orbit, classified as a large near-Earth object of the Apollo group. It may be an extinct comet or damocloid asteroid. The asteroid was discovered on 29 April 2009, by astronomers with the Catalina Sky Survey at the Catalina Station near Tucson, Arizona, in the United States. Approximately in diameter, it makes many close approaches to Earth, Venus, and Mars at a very high relative velocity. It was named after the satyr Marsyas from Greek mythology. Classification and orbit ''Marsyas'' was initially listed as a potentially hazardous asteroid. It was removed from the Sentry Risk Table on 6 May 2009. It orbits the Sun at a distance of 0.49–4.6 AU once every 4.02 years (1,467 days; semi-major axis of 2.53 AU). Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.81 and an inclination of 154 ° with respect to the ecliptic. Retrograde ''Marsyas'' has a retrograde orbit and thus orbits the Sun in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Balthasar Permoser
Balthasar Permoser (13 August 1651 – 18 February 1732) was among the leading sculptors of his generation, whose evolving working styles spanned the late Baroque and early Rococo. Permoser was born in Kammer bei Waging, Salzburg, today a part of the Bavarian town of Traunstein. He was trained first in Salzburg, in the workshop of Wolf Weißenkirchner, Wolf Weißenkirchner the Younger and in Vienna, where he learned the art of ivory carving, before he left in 1675 on a trip to Florence to work for Giovanni Battista Foggini, in whose studio he remained fourteen years, maturing his style. Called to Dresden in 1689 by John George III, Elector of Saxony, Johann Georg III, Elector of Saxony, he executed two monumental garden sculptures of Hercules. In 1697, on the way to Italy once more, he remained almost a year in his old haunts during which he sculpted the Atlas (architecture), atlantes for the west doorway of the Hofstallung in Salzburg. In the years 1704–1710 he worked ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marsyas (sculpture)
''Marsyas'' is a 150-meter-long, ten storey high sculpture designed by Anish Kapoor and Cecil Balmond. It was on show at Tate Modern gallery, London in 2003 and was commissioned as part of the Unilever Series. ''Marsyas'' was the third in a series of commissions for Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall and the first to make use of the entire space. Anish Kapoor is renowned for his sculptural forms that permeate physical and psychological space. Cecil Balmond is a designer, artist, architect, engineer, and writer. He is also the recipient of the RIBA Charles Jencks Award for Theory in Practice. ''Marsyas'' consists of three steel rings joined together by a single span of specially-designed red PVC membrane. The two rings are positioned vertically, at each end of the space, while a third is suspended parallel with the bridge. Wedged into place, the geometry generated by these three rigid steel structures determines the sculpture’s overall form, a shiftform vertical to horizontal and bac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marsyas (beetle)
''Marsyas'' is a genus of beetles in the family Carabidae, containing the following species: * '' Marsyas bahiae'' Tschitscherine, 1900 * '' Marsyas bicolor'' Straneo, 1968 * '' Marsyas cyanopterus'' (Tschitscherine, 1897) * '' Marsyas darlingtoni'' Straneo, 1985 * '' Marsyas elegans'' (Perty, 1830) * '' Marsyas franzi'' Straneo, 1985 * '' Marsyas humeralis'' Straneo, 1968 * '' Marsyas inaequalis'' Straneo, 1968 * '' Marsyas insignis'' (Brulle, 1843) * '' Marsyas intermedius'' Straneo, 1968 * '' Marsyas lampronotus'' Tschitscherine, 1901 * '' Marsyas latemarginatus'' Straneo, 1968 * '' Marsyas minutus'' Straneo, 1951 * '' Marsyas obliquecollis'' (Motschulsky, 1866) * '' Marsyas olivaceus'' Straneo, 1968 * '' Marsyas parallelus'' (Perty, 1830) * '' Marsyas proximus'' Straneo, 1953 * '' Marsyas subaeneus'' Straneo, 1968 * '' Marsyas viridiaeneus'' Chaudoir, 1874 References Pterostichinae {{Pterostichinae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pseudolycaena Marsyas
''Pseudolycaena marsyas'', the Cambridge blue, giant hairstreak or Marsyas hairstreak, is a species of butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. Description ''Pseudolycaena marsyas'' has a wingspan of about , a quite huge size in hairstreaks (hence the common name "giant hairstreak"). The uppersides of the wings are usually metallic blue, with hues varying from cobalt blue to turquoise blue depending on location. The apex of the wings are black and lightly falcade in males and the hindwings are tailed in both sexes, with a small black spot. The undersides of the wings are pale blue greyish, with several black spots and thin markings. Distribution This wide-ranging species occurs in Central and South America from Mexico up to Argentina, in semi-open forests at an elevation of about above sea level. Subspecies Many forms varying in the hue of the blue but these are allocated to a single subspecies - ''Pseudolycaena marsyas marsyas''. References * , 2007: Taxonomic comments on ''Ps ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marsyas Painter
The Marsyas Painter was an ancient Greek vase painter of the red-figure style active in Attica between 370 and 340/330 BC. The Marsyas Painter is sometimes considered the best of the Attic red-figure painters of the late 4th-century Kerch Style. His conventional name is derived from the depiction of Marsyas on a ''pelike'', now on display at the Eremitage, St. Petersburg. So far, 23 works have been attributed to him. These include mostly larger vessels, such as '' lebetes gamikoi'', ''pelikes'', ''hydriai'' and '' lekanes''. Recently, ten Panathenaic amphorae have been identified as his work, substantially improving our knowledge of his development. He painted scenes from the life of women and other aspects of everyday life, as well as mythological themes. His figures are harmonic in spite of their monumentality; his drawing style exhibits great delicacy and skill. He is a master of spatial perspective, using foreshortening and reduction to great effect. Textiles and garments are d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marsyas Of Pella
Marsyas of Pella ( grc, Μαρσύας Περιάνδρου Πελλαῖος; c. 356 BC – c. 294 BC), son of Periander, was a Greek historian. According to the Suda Encyclopedia, he was a brother of Antigonus I Monophthalmus, who was afterwards king of Asia, by which an uterine brother alone can be meant, as the father of Antigonus was named Philip. Both of these statements point to his being of noble birth, and appear strangely at variance with the assertion that he was a mere professional grammarian ''Grammatodidascalus'', a statement which Robert Geier conjectures plausibly enough to refer in fact to Marsyas of Philippi. Suidas, indeed, seems in many points to have confounded the two. The only other fact transmitted to us concerning the life of Marsyas, is that he was appointed by Demetrius Poliorcetes to command one division of his fleet in the Battle of Salamis in Cyprus (306 BC) (Diodorus, xx. 50.). However, this circumstance is alone sufficient to show that he was a person ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
