In Dionysiac scenes he is a frequent spectator[[258]]; he greets Dionysos among his thiasos,[[259]] joins him in a banquet,[[260]] or accompanies Ariadne’s chariot[[261]] or the returning Hephaistos[[262]]; listens to the Satyr Molkos playing the flutes,[[263]] or is grouped with Satyrs and Maenads at Nysa.[[264]] More important and of greater interest are the scenes which depict the legend of Marsyas, and they may fitly find a place here. The story is told in eight different episodes on the vases, which may be thus systematised:
1. Marsyas picks up the flutes dropped by Athena: Berlin 2418 = Baumeister, ii. p. 1001, fig. 1209: cf. Reinach, i. 342 (in Boston).
2. First meeting of Apollo and Marsyas: Millin-Reinach, i. 6.
3. The challenge: Berlin 2638.
4. Marsyas performing: B.M. E 490; Reinach, i. 452 (Berlin 2950), i. 511 (Athens 1921), ii. 312; Jatta 1093 = Reinach, i. 175 = Baumeister, ii. p. 891, fig. 965.
5. Apollo performing: Jatta 1364 = Él. Cér. ii. 63; Wiener Vorl. vi. 11.
6. Apollo victorious: Reinach, ii. 310; Petersburg 355 = Reinach, i. 14 = Wiener Vorl. iii. 5.
7. Condemnation of Marsyas: Naples 3231 = Reinach, i. 405; Reinach, ii. 324.
8. Flaying of Marsyas: Naples 2991 = Reinach, i. 406 (a vase with reliefs); Roscher, ii. 2455 = Él. Cér. ii. 64.
Among other scenes in which Apollo (generally accompanied by Artemis) plays a personal part, the following may be mentioned: the slaying of the Niobids by the two deities[[265]]; the slaying of Tityos by Apollo[[266]] (in one case Tityos is represented carrying off Leto, who is rescued by Apollo)[[267]]; and various love adventures in which Apollo is concerned.[[268]] The name of the Nymph pursued by him in the latter scenes cannot, as a rule, be identified; one vase appears to represent him contending with Idas for the possession of Marpessa.[[269]] He also heals the Centaur Cheiron (this appears in burlesque form),[[270]] and protects Creusa from the wrath of Ion.[[271]] He is seen seeking for the cattle stolen from him by Hermes, and contending with that god over the lyre.[[272]] He frequently appears in Birth of Athena scenes as Kitharoidos,[[273]] and also at the sending forth of Triptolemos[[274]] or in the under-world.[[275]] In one case he appears (with Athena, Artemis, and Herakles) as protecting deity of Attica, watching a combat of Greeks and Amazons.[[276]] On one vase there is a possible reference to Apollo Smintheus, with whom the mouse was especially associated.[[277]]