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The Lyre is a stringed musical instrument. While it is the symbol of the Olympian Apollo, he did not invent it but he did barter for it.

Origin[]

On his very first day in the world Hermes was very busy one of the things he did was to steal Apollo's cows and use the entrails of as well as a tortoise shell to construct the very first lyre.

Trivia[]

  • The Lyre is the symbol of not only Apollo but three of the Muses