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=== Early years ===
When Philammon refused to take Argiope into his house as his wife, the girl left [[Peloponnese]] and went to the country of the [[Odrysian kingdom|Odrysians]] in [[Thrace]] where she gave birth to a son, Thamyris. When the boy reached puberty, he became so accomplished in singing to the cithara that the [[Scythians]] made him their king even though he was an interloper.<ref name=":0">[[Conon (mythographer)|Conon]], [https://topostext.org/work/489#7 7]</ref>

According to [[Diodorus]] the mythical singer [[Linus_of_Thrace|Linus]] took three pupils: [[Heracles]], Thamyris, and [[Orpheus]], which neatly settles Thamyris' legendary chronology.<ref>[[Diodorus Siculus]], [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Diodorus_Siculus/3E*.html#67.1 3.67.1]</ref> When [[Pliny the Elder]] briefly sketches the origins of music, he credits Thamyris with inventing the [[Dorian mode]] and with being the first to play the [[cithara]] as a solo instrument with no vocal accompaniment.<ref>[[Pliny the Elder]], ''[[Natural History (Pliny)|Naturalis Historia]]'' 7.204</ref>

Thamyris is said to have been enamored of [[Hyacinth (mythology)|Hyacinth]], and thus to have been the first man to have loved another male.<ref name="ReferenceA" />