Thamyris
Θάμυρις
(Θάμυρις), an ancient Thracian hard, was a son of Philammon and the nymph Argiope. He went so far in his conceit as to think that he could surpass the Muses in song; in consequence of which he was deprived of his sight and of the power of singing. (Hom. Il. 2.595, &c.; Apollod. 1.3.3; Paus. 4.33.4. 10.7.2; Eurip. Rhes. 925.) He was represented with a broken lyre in his hand. (Paus. 9.30.2.)
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.