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Thamyras

by Micha F. Lindemans
A legendary minstrel from Thrace who, because of his many victories, had become so vain that he challenged the Muses themselves to a harp-playing contest. For this impudence he was deprived of both his sight and his art.

Iliad 2. 595-600.

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