Hyacinth (mythology)
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Hyacinth or Hyacinthus is a deified hero and a lover of Apollo in Greek mythology. His cult at Amyclae southwest of Sparta dates from the Mycenaean era. The hero is mythically linked to local cults an
A winged deity and a youth, likely Zephyrus and Hyacinthus, on an Attic white-ground bobbin, Metropolitan Museum of Art (c. 460–450 BC).
Hyacinthus and the West Wind engaging in intercrural sex on a red-figure vase (5th century BCE)
Apollo and Hyacinth (1603-1604) by Domenichino
Apollo, Hyacinth and Cyparissus singing and playing by Alexander Ivanov, 1831–1834
Thamyris
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In Greek mythology, Thamyris was a Thracian singer. He is notable in Greek mythology for reportedly having been in love with Hyacinth before the latter's relationship with Apollo and having been the f
Hyacinth (mythology)
…of the god of prophecy Apollo. He was also admired by Zephyrus, the god of the west wind, Boreas, the god of the north wind, and a mortal man named Thamyris. Hyacinthus chose Apollo over the others. He visited all of Apollo's sacred lands with the god in a chariot drawn by swans. So fiercely was Apollo in…
Thamyris (far right) playing the lyre in the presence of the Muses, Apollo and Musaeus on an Attic red-figure pyxis c. 410 BC, now kept in the National Archaeological Museum of Greece.
Thamyris playing the kithara in the center of an Attic red-figure volute krater from 420s BC, National Archaeological Museum of Ferrara in Italy.