Eumolpus was an excellent musician and singer; he played the aulos and the lyre. He won a musical contest in the funereal games of Pelias. Eumolpus was regarded as an ancient priestly bard, poems and writings on the mysteries were fabricated and circulated at a later time under his name. One hexameter line of a Dionysiac hymn, ascribed to him, is preserved in Diodorus.Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca historica 1.11Suida, Suda Encyclopedia s.v. The legends connected him also with Heracles, whom he is said to have instructed in music, or initiated into the mysteries.Hyginus, Fabulae 273Theocritus, Idylls 24.108Apollodorus, 2.5.12.
Eumolpus was an excellent musician and singer; he played the aulos and the lyre. He won a musical contest in the funereal games of Pelias. Eumolpus was regarded as an ancient priestly bard poems and writings on the mysteries ,were fabricated and circulated at a later time under his name. One hexameter line of a Dionysiac hymn, ascribed to him, is preserved in Diodorus.Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca historica 1.11Suida, Suda Encyclopedia s.v. The legends connected him also with Heracles, whom he is said to have instructed in music, or initiated into the mysteries.Hyginus, Fabulae 273Theocritus, Idylls 24.108Apollodorus, 2.5.12.