SEIKILO Ancient World Music | The Lyre of Heracles and the Death of the Greatest Lyre Tutor — The Song of the Lyre @SEIKILO | Uploaded August 2024 | Updated October 2024, 2 hours ago.
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Why was Heracles instructed to lyre playing? Was he any good? And how did he end up killing the greatest lyre tutor of all time? In this episode of our animated series, we follow Heracles's early steps before he became the great Greek hero.
The lyres used for this episode's music were masterfully handcrafted in Greece by the LUTHIEROS family. This story, among hundreds of others, can be found in the book "The Song of the Lyre" available at luthieros.com/the_song
👀 Watch the full mini-series at youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcMWkAbRJunFi1ahv3DJbIbjod3WVJBKj
⚪ Order the book at luthieros.com/the_song
⚫ Find the perfect lyre for you at luthieros.com
🔵 Learn how to play the lyre and other ancient musical instruments at
lyreacademy.com/choose-your-next-course
🎬 SEIKILO team
Art Direction & Concept Creation by Nikolaos Koumartzis
Script by Fotis Giantsios
Voiceover Jarrett Raymond
Animation by Hashir Ahmed
Sound design by George Ayman
Subtitles by Feraia Nikolaou
Music by SEIKILO Affiliate Artists
Song selection by Evagoras Bekiaris and Nikolaos Koumartzis
Special thanks to Evagoras Bekiaris and Feraia Nikolaou for their participation in the initial stage of the sound design.
📃 ✍🏼 Transcript
Heracles & the Lyre
One night, two brothers were sleeping in their cradle. Suddenly, a hissing sound filled the room as two great snakes slowly approached the boys, intent on their purpose. They raised their heads, ready to strike, when one of the boys shot up his hands, grabbed the snakes by their throats, and strangled them. He was just eight months old.
This was the first of many amazing deeds that the boy would perform in his life, a life so filled with extraordinary labors and achievements that his name would be forever associated with something almost impossible to do. This was Greece’s greatest hero, the demigod son of Zeus, Heracles.
As he grew up, Amphitryon, his mortal father, realized what the future held for the boy and called upon the greatest of teachers to teach the young demigod the most important arts. And so, he was taught wrestling by Autolycus, archery by Eurytus, and swordplay by the great Castor. But still, his education was incomplete. For the young hero did not yet possess the secrets of the lyre…
And so his father called the great lyre player Linus, who some say was the brother of Orpheus himself, to instruct his son in the way of the godly instrument. But Hercules’ strong hands were not made for the gentle strings of the lyre, Nor was he blessed with patience. As he longed for the joys of war, he griped and complained, angering his teacher, who struck him, as was the custom at the time. But Hercules was not one to suffer such, and in a fit of rage, he lifted his lyre and, using it as a weapon, struck back at Linus, tragically ending with a lyre the life of a man who had dedicated himself to it.
But Linus’ murder could not go unpunished, and Heracles would stand trial for his crime. But although he had not learned to play the lyre, the demigod had learned from his teachers the art of cunning.
“Was not Rhadamanthys, the wisest of lawgivers?” he asked his judges.
“He was,” they all agreed.
“And did he not decree that anyone who retaliates to violence is not guilty if he has not struck the first blow?”
“That is true,” the judges agreed again.
“So, how can I be guilty, if Linus struck me first? Did I not have the right to defend myself?”
The judges deemed this fair, and Heracles was found innocent. But his father, Amphitryon, fearing for the boy's future, sent him away to raise cattle and learn to control his fiery temper. It was there that Heracles would understand the choice between Virtue and Vice and begin to grow into the hero of legend…
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Why was Heracles instructed to lyre playing? Was he any good? And how did he end up killing the greatest lyre tutor of all time? In this episode of our animated series, we follow Heracles's early steps before he became the great Greek hero.
The lyres used for this episode's music were masterfully handcrafted in Greece by the LUTHIEROS family. This story, among hundreds of others, can be found in the book "The Song of the Lyre" available at luthieros.com/the_song
👀 Watch the full mini-series at youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcMWkAbRJunFi1ahv3DJbIbjod3WVJBKj
⚪ Order the book at luthieros.com/the_song
⚫ Find the perfect lyre for you at luthieros.com
🔵 Learn how to play the lyre and other ancient musical instruments at
lyreacademy.com/choose-your-next-course
🎬 SEIKILO team
Art Direction & Concept Creation by Nikolaos Koumartzis
Script by Fotis Giantsios
Voiceover Jarrett Raymond
Animation by Hashir Ahmed
Sound design by George Ayman
Subtitles by Feraia Nikolaou
Music by SEIKILO Affiliate Artists
Song selection by Evagoras Bekiaris and Nikolaos Koumartzis
Special thanks to Evagoras Bekiaris and Feraia Nikolaou for their participation in the initial stage of the sound design.
📃 ✍🏼 Transcript
Heracles & the Lyre
One night, two brothers were sleeping in their cradle. Suddenly, a hissing sound filled the room as two great snakes slowly approached the boys, intent on their purpose. They raised their heads, ready to strike, when one of the boys shot up his hands, grabbed the snakes by their throats, and strangled them. He was just eight months old.
This was the first of many amazing deeds that the boy would perform in his life, a life so filled with extraordinary labors and achievements that his name would be forever associated with something almost impossible to do. This was Greece’s greatest hero, the demigod son of Zeus, Heracles.
As he grew up, Amphitryon, his mortal father, realized what the future held for the boy and called upon the greatest of teachers to teach the young demigod the most important arts. And so, he was taught wrestling by Autolycus, archery by Eurytus, and swordplay by the great Castor. But still, his education was incomplete. For the young hero did not yet possess the secrets of the lyre…
And so his father called the great lyre player Linus, who some say was the brother of Orpheus himself, to instruct his son in the way of the godly instrument. But Hercules’ strong hands were not made for the gentle strings of the lyre, Nor was he blessed with patience. As he longed for the joys of war, he griped and complained, angering his teacher, who struck him, as was the custom at the time. But Hercules was not one to suffer such, and in a fit of rage, he lifted his lyre and, using it as a weapon, struck back at Linus, tragically ending with a lyre the life of a man who had dedicated himself to it.
But Linus’ murder could not go unpunished, and Heracles would stand trial for his crime. But although he had not learned to play the lyre, the demigod had learned from his teachers the art of cunning.
“Was not Rhadamanthys, the wisest of lawgivers?” he asked his judges.
“He was,” they all agreed.
“And did he not decree that anyone who retaliates to violence is not guilty if he has not struck the first blow?”
“That is true,” the judges agreed again.
“So, how can I be guilty, if Linus struck me first? Did I not have the right to defend myself?”
The judges deemed this fair, and Heracles was found innocent. But his father, Amphitryon, fearing for the boy's future, sent him away to raise cattle and learn to control his fiery temper. It was there that Heracles would understand the choice between Virtue and Vice and begin to grow into the hero of legend…
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