object

Lyre

Objects

A named yoke-lute of classical and Near Eastern practice with strings over a resonator. Not a kithara, not a lute, and not a published kantele.

Also known as Classical lyre

Hellenic religion

  • Lyre appears in Hellenic religion.

    The Iliad names the phorminx, the yoke-lyre of Achaean song, among the poem’s music. A named Hellenic lyre-form in that epic, not the tortoise chelys Hermes makes and not Orpheus’s lyre in Ovid.

    from Homer · Iliad, c. 8th–7th century BCE (this form)

    appears in · sourced · documented

sources

  • Iliad · Homer

    Homer, Iliad.