- For the Ancient Greek woman artist see Timarete.
In
Greek mythology,
Thamyris , son of
Philammon and the nymph
Argiope, was a
Thracian singer who was so proud of his skill that he boasted he could outsing the
Muses. He competed against them and lost. As punishment for his presumption they blinded him, and took away his ability to make poetry and to play the lyre. This outline of the story is told in the
Iliad.