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