The painting by the Flemish painter Jacob Jordaens “Martius, tortured by the Muses.” The size of the picture is 77 x 120 cm, canvas, oil. Satyr Marcia, a character of Greek and Phrygian mythology, a representative of the flute played during the service of Cybele. When Athena threw the flute invented by her because she would disfigure her face in the game, Marsius picked it up, studied the game on it and summoned Apollo to a match.
According to ancient Greek legends, the god Apollo delighted the gods of Olympus with his art of playing the lyre, stood at the head of the choir of the muses and could give people the gift of singing and poetry. The Muses, as mediators in the dispute, decided it in favor of the game of God on cithara; at the instigation of the Muses after the tortures Apollo hung Marcia on a pine tree, wiping off the skin with a living satyr. Initially in Greek myths, Marsius was the god of the river of the same name at Kehlen, where the so-called furs of Marcia were shown on the market, near the sources of the river.
Ancient sculptors and artists were often inspired by the fate of Marcia; so, for example, Miron, a senior contemporary of Phidias, portrayed Marcia as being frightened by Athena from the double flute, to which the satyr extends his hand. In Rome and the Roman colonies in the markets stood the statues of Marcia, as emblems of freedom.
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