Why Was It Invented
The myth about the invention of the goddess of flute (Avlos) mentioned by many authors. (In Boeotian Athena-inventor flute, even revered as a special name Bombileya, ie Athena "Honey", "buzzing"). Pindar says that one of the Gorgon Medusa terrible groaning, dying, and another - Evriala moaned, looking at his sister, and Athena invented the flute, to repeat these sounds. According to Corinna, the goddess taught the flute Apollo. Epicharmus mentions that she played in front of Dioscurus Avlos.
For more detailed story, Athena made a flute from the bones of deer and came to the feast of the gods but Hera and ]Aphrodite laughed at her, and she looked at her reflection in the water, saw the ugly when playing inflated her cheeks, and threw the flute in the woods Ideyskom or threw the flute in the water meander. Abandoned flute picked satyr Marsyas. (Pausanias mentions a statue of Athena, beating Silenus Marsyas, which raised the flute). The myth continues with that in the game to "Palladino Flute satyr was defeated by Apollo, and he flayed. Aristotle gives the myth its interpretation. In his view, the real cause of action in Athens is that playing the flute is not associated with mental development. It was also invented because they wanted a more variety of instruments and have different sound.