In another version, the Muses were judges and awarded the victory to Apollo, who tied Marsyas to a tree and flayed him alive.
The lyre was carried to heaven by the Muses, and was placed amongst the stars.
In contrast to these legends, Pausanias tells us that they were regarded as the first to worship the Muses on Mt.
His first opera, Les Muses galantes, privately prepared at the house of La Popeliniere, attracted very little attention; but Le Devin du village, given at Fontainebleau in 1752, and at the Academie in 1753, achieved a great and well-deserved success.
The women, after playfully pretending for some time to search for the god, desisted, saying that he had hidden himself among the Muses.
