[Violin] [Horace.] Amphion and his Lyre - Original 1655 EngravingOriginal engraving showing Amphion, the son of Zeus and the nymph Antiope, playing his lyre (which looks very much like a violin here!), his music causing stones to magically construct the citadel of Thebes. The caption below the image quotes Horace's Ars Poetica (translated from the Latin): "Its said too that Amphion, who built Thebes citadel, Moved stones at the sound of his lyre, and set them Where he wished." Extracted from the volume "Tableaux du