Athena, flutes and satyr Marsyas

Bronze group on Athenian Acropolis, ca. 460-450 B.C. Stewart, T43: Pliny the Elder, Natural History 34.57: He (Myron)... made a satyr marveling at the flutes and a Minerva. Pausanias 1.24.1: In this place (the Athenian Acropolis) is a statue of Athena striking Marsyas the Silenus for taking up the flutes that the goddess wished to be cast away for good.