Thamyrus

Another extremely short myth. Thamyrus challenged the muses in a trial of skill, lost, and was deprived of his site as a punishment.

Hmmm...Not much to say about this myth. Obviously, you need to think before you challenge any god. I wonder if these myths were just meant to teach people to be humble, sort of something Mommy would tell Bobby when she got sick of hearing him bragging. Are all these myths just moral lessons? All th one I can think of right now seem to be telling you to be kind, good, hard-working, basically like Bible stories, except that they seem to stress being humble more than anything. Did the Greeks consider that to be extremely important? If you think about it, everyone considers humbleness to be very important, and knowing one's place even more so. Was this just a way to control people? To make them fear challenging the established order of things because no good could come out of it?