Hyagnis (mythology) explained

Hyagnis (Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: Ὑάγνις or Ἄγνις) was a mythical musician from Phrygia who was considered to be the inventor of the aulos.^[1] Hyagnis was also one of the three mythical Phrygian musicians (along with Marsyas and Olympus) to whom the Ancient Greeks attributed the invention of the Phrygian mode in music.^[2] He was called the "divine" father of Marsyas^[3] probably by Olympus^[4] or Oeagrus.^[5]

Notes

1. [Nonnus]
2. http://www.ehw.gr/asiaminor/forms/filePage.aspx?lemmaId=6575 Anthi Dipla:2001
3. Nonnus, Dionysiaca 10.233
4. [Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]
5. [Gaius Julius Hyginus|Hyginus]

References

• Apollodorus, The Library with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. ISBN 0-674-99135-4. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
• Gaius Julius Hyginus, Fabulae from The Myths of Hyginus translated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
• Nonnus of Panopolis, Dionysiaca translated by William Henry Denham Rouse (1863-1950), from the Loeb Classical Library, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1940. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
• Nonnus of Panopolis, Dionysiaca. 3 Vols. W.H.D. Rouse. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1940–1942. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.