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Muse reading a scroll, perhaps
Clio - Attic red-figure lekythos, Boeotia c. 435-425 BC -
Louvre
.^ MUSES : Greek goddesses of music poetry & the arts ; mythology ; pictures : MOUSAI, MUSAE, MUSE .- MUSES : Greek goddesses of music poetry & the arts ; mythology ; pictures : MOUSAI, MUSAE, MUSE 17 January 2010 9:16 UTC www.theoi.com [Source type: Original source]
^ The Muses, according to the earliest writers, were the inspiring goddesses of song, and, according to later noticus, divinities presiding over the different kinds of poetry, and over the arts and sciences.- MUSES : Greek goddesses of music poetry & the arts ; mythology ; pictures : MOUSAI, MUSAE, MUSE 17 January 2010 9:16 UTC www.theoi.com [Source type: Original source]
^ All musicians are inspired by those who went before as Muse will inspire those that will come later.- New Muse - "Uprising" - Album Art - Stereogum 17 January 2010 9:16 UTC stereogum.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
They were considered the source of the knowledge, related orally for centuries in the ancient culture, that was contained in poetic lyrics and myths.
.^ I'm from Miami and just spent a week in LA, and the girls out there are still rocking their Muses.- YSL Muse Gray Blue - The Bag Snob: Reviews of Designer Handbags, Authentic Designer Purses, and Leather Bags 17 January 2010 9:16 UTC www.bagsnob.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Reply Score = 0 Muse are an excellent band that are not afraid to experiment and put themselves out there unlike so many other bands (e.g.- New Muse - "Uprising" - Album Art - Stereogum 17 January 2010 9:16 UTC stereogum.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
In Boeotia, the homeland of Hesiod, a tradition persisted
[3] that the Muses had once been three in number.
Diodorus Siculus, quotes Hesiod to the contrary, observing:
.^ Writers similarly disagree also concerning the number of the Mousai; for some say they are but thee, and others that they are nine, but the number nine has prevailed since it rests upon the authority of the most distinguished men, such as Homer and Hesiod and others like them.- MUSES : Greek goddesses of music poetry & the arts ; mythology ; pictures : MOUSAI, MUSAE, MUSE 17 January 2010 9:16 UTC www.theoi.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Since they don't sound like any other band.- is it just me or.... [Archive] - Rock Band Forums 25 September 2009 3:03 UTC www.rockband.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ They are daft,have some silly lyrics but they can produce some excellent music.Muse and arcade fire are two of the best bands around.- New Muse - "Uprising" - Album Art - Stereogum 17 January 2010 9:16 UTC stereogum.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[4]
.^ In the most ancient works of art we find only three Muses, and their attributes are musical instruments, such as the flute, the lyre, or the barbiton.- MUSES : Greek goddesses of music poetry & the arts ; mythology ; pictures : MOUSAI, MUSAE, MUSE 17 January 2010 9:16 UTC www.theoi.com [Source type: Original source]
[5] .^ The only rides they let in are a medium- sized Ferris wheel, a merry-go-round and one of those newfangled water slides.
^ The people who listened to Muse before then most likely love the old, gritty sound, and dislike the new one (much like it is with most bands, really).- is it just me or.... [Archive] - Rock Band Forums 25 September 2009 3:03 UTC www.rockband.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ You’re the only one who can see it,” she said with a bemused smile as she turned the car onto the deserted road.
.^ THE MOUSAI were the goddesses of music, song and dance, and the source of inspiration to poets.- MUSES : Greek goddesses of music poetry & the arts ; mythology ; pictures : MOUSAI, MUSAE, MUSE 17 January 2010 9:16 UTC www.theoi.com [Source type: Original source]
^ The Muses, according to the earliest writers, were the inspiring goddesses of song, and, according to later noticus, divinities presiding over the different kinds of poetry, and over the arts and sciences.- MUSES : Greek goddesses of music poetry & the arts ; mythology ; pictures : MOUSAI, MUSAE, MUSE 17 January 2010 9:16 UTC www.theoi.com [Source type: Original source]
^ All musicians are inspired by those who went before as Muse will inspire those that will come later.- New Muse - "Uprising" - Album Art - Stereogum 17 January 2010 9:16 UTC stereogum.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ Pierus, a Macedonian, is said to have been the first who introduced the worship of the nine Muses, from Thrace to Thespiae, at the foot of mount Helicon.- MUSES : Greek goddesses of music poetry & the arts ; mythology ; pictures : MOUSAI, MUSAE, MUSE 17 January 2010 9:16 UTC www.theoi.com [Source type: Original source]
^ And come on, name one band that's just like Muse?- is it just me or.... [Archive] - Rock Band Forums 25 September 2009 3:03 UTC www.rockband.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Thespiae [the town beneath Mount Helikon] and established nine Mousai, changing their names to the present ones .- MUSES : Greek goddesses of music poetry & the arts ; mythology ; pictures : MOUSAI, MUSAE, MUSE 17 January 2010 9:16 UTC www.theoi.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ From Boeotia, which thus became the focus of the worship of the nine Muses, it afterwards spread into the adjacent and more distant parts of Greece.- MUSES : Greek goddesses of music poetry & the arts ; mythology ; pictures : MOUSAI, MUSAE, MUSE 17 January 2010 9:16 UTC www.theoi.com [Source type: Original source]
^ P. 85); and the nine daughters of Pierus, who presumed to rival the Muses, were metamorphosed into birds.- MUSES : Greek goddesses of music poetry & the arts ; mythology ; pictures : MOUSAI, MUSAE, MUSE 17 January 2010 9:16 UTC www.theoi.com [Source type: Original source]
Sometimes they are referred to as water
nymphs, associated with the springs of
Helicon and with
Pieris. It was said that the winged horse
Pegasus touched his hooves to the ground on Helicon, causing four sacred springs to burst forth, from which the muses were born.
[1] Athena later tamed the horse and presented him to the muses.
The Olympian myths set
Apollo as their leader,
Apollon Mousagetēs. Not only are the Muses explicitly used in modern English to refer to an
artistic inspiration, as when one cites one's own artistic muse, but they also are implicit in words and phrases such as "a
muse", "
museum" (Latinised from mouseion—a place where the muses were worshipped), "
music", and "
musing upon".
[7]
.^ Rackham) (Roman rhetorician C1st B.C.) : "The second set [of goddess Mousai] are the offspring of the third Jupiter [Zeus Olympios] and Mnemosyne, nine in number; the third set are the daughters of Pierus and Antiope, and are usually called by the poets Peirides or Peirian Maidens; they are the same in number [nine] and have the same names as the next preceding set."- MUSES : Greek goddesses of music poetry & the arts ; mythology ; pictures : MOUSAI, MUSAE, MUSE 17 January 2010 9:16 UTC www.theoi.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Rackham) (Roman rhetorician C1st B.C.) : "[Cicero sets out several traditions concerning the goddess Mousai] Again the first set of Musae are four, the daughters of the second Jupiter [i.e.- MUSES : Greek goddesses of music poetry & the arts ; mythology ; pictures : MOUSAI, MUSAE, MUSE 17 January 2010 9:16 UTC www.theoi.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Zeus and Mnemosyne (Memory); but a few poets, among whose number is Alkman [lyric poet C7th B.C.] state that they were daughters of Ouranos (Sky) and Ge (Earth).- MUSES : Greek goddesses of music poetry & the arts ; mythology ; pictures : MOUSAI, MUSAE, MUSE 17 January 2010 9:16 UTC www.theoi.com [Source type: Original source]
For
Alcman and
Mimnermus, they were even more
primordial, springing from the early deities,
Uranus and
Gaia.
.^ Being goddesses of song, they are naturally connected with Apollo, the god of the lyre, who like them instructs the bards, and is mentioned along with them even by Homer.- MUSES : Greek goddesses of music poetry & the arts ; mythology ; pictures : MOUSAI, MUSAE, MUSE 17 January 2010 9:16 UTC www.theoi.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ Rackham) (Roman rhetorician C1st B.C.) : "[Cicero sets out several traditions concerning the goddess Mousai] Again the first set of Musae are four, the daughters of the second Jupiter [i.e.- MUSES : Greek goddesses of music poetry & the arts ; mythology ; pictures : MOUSAI, MUSAE, MUSE 17 January 2010 9:16 UTC www.theoi.com [Source type: Original source]
^ The most common notion was, that they were the daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne, and born in Pieria, at the foot of Mount Olympus (Hes.- MUSES : Greek goddesses of music poetry & the arts ; mythology ; pictures : MOUSAI, MUSAE, MUSE 17 January 2010 9:16 UTC www.theoi.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Zeus and Mnemosyne (Memory); but a few poets, among whose number is Alkman [lyric poet C7th B.C.] state that they were daughters of Ouranos (Sky) and Ge (Earth).- MUSES : Greek goddesses of music poetry & the arts ; mythology ; pictures : MOUSAI, MUSAE, MUSE 17 January 2010 9:16 UTC www.theoi.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ Meanwhile the rich-tressed Kharites (Graces) and cheerful Horai (Seasons) dance with Harmonia (Harmony) and Hebe (Youth) and Aphrodite, daughter of Zeus, holding each other by the wrist."- MUSES : Greek goddesses of music poetry & the arts ; mythology ; pictures : MOUSAI, MUSAE, MUSE 17 January 2010 9:16 UTC www.theoi.com [Source type: Original source]
^ II) WEDDING OF CADMUS & HARMONIA .- MUSES : Greek goddesses of music poetry & the arts ; mythology ; pictures : MOUSAI, MUSAE, MUSE 17 January 2010 9:16 UTC www.theoi.com [Source type: Original source]
This later inconsistency is an example of how clues to the true dating, or chronology, of myths may be determined by the appearance of figures and concepts in Greek myths.
[citation needed]
Muses in myth
.^ From Boeotia, which thus became the focus of the worship of the nine Muses, it afterwards spread into the adjacent and more distant parts of Greece.- MUSES : Greek goddesses of music poetry & the arts ; mythology ; pictures : MOUSAI, MUSAE, MUSE 17 January 2010 9:16 UTC www.theoi.com [Source type: Original source]
^ The Muses, according to the earliest writers, were the inspiring goddesses of song, and, according to later noticus, divinities presiding over the different kinds of poetry, and over the arts and sciences.- MUSES : Greek goddesses of music poetry & the arts ; mythology ; pictures : MOUSAI, MUSAE, MUSE 17 January 2010 9:16 UTC www.theoi.com [Source type: Original source]
^ There were two alternative sets of Muses : the three or four Mousai Titanides and the three Mousai Apollonides .- MUSES : Greek goddesses of music poetry & the arts ; mythology ; pictures : MOUSAI, MUSAE, MUSE 17 January 2010 9:16 UTC www.theoi.com [Source type: Original source]
Together, these three form the complete picture of the preconditions of poetic art in
cult practice.
.^ If they have a generic sound, name a couple other bands that sound like Muse.- is it just me or.... [Archive] - Rock Band Forums 25 September 2009 3:03 UTC www.rockband.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ They were originally regarded as the nymphs of inspiring wells, near which they were worshipped, and bore different names in different places, until the Thraco-Boeotian worship of the nine Muses spread from Boeotia over other parts of Greece, and ultimately became generally established.- MUSES : Greek goddesses of music poetry & the arts ; mythology ; pictures : MOUSAI, MUSAE, MUSE 17 January 2010 9:16 UTC www.theoi.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Delphi, where their names were identical with those of the lowest, middle, and highest chord of the lyre, viz.- MUSES : Greek goddesses of music poetry & the arts ; mythology ; pictures : MOUSAI, MUSAE, MUSE 17 January 2010 9:16 UTC www.theoi.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ Cephisso, Apollonis, and Borysthenis, which names characterise them as the daughters of Apollo.- MUSES : Greek goddesses of music poetry & the arts ; mythology ; pictures : MOUSAI, MUSAE, MUSE 17 January 2010 9:16 UTC www.theoi.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Zeus and Mnemosyne (Memory); but a few poets, among whose number is Alkman [lyric poet C7th B.C.] state that they were daughters of Ouranos (Sky) and Ge (Earth).- MUSES : Greek goddesses of music poetry & the arts ; mythology ; pictures : MOUSAI, MUSAE, MUSE 17 January 2010 9:16 UTC www.theoi.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Apollo, or of Zeus and Plusia, or of Zeus and Moneta, probably a mere translation of Mnemosyne or Mneme, whence they are called Mnemonides (Ov.- MUSES : Greek goddesses of music poetry & the arts ; mythology ; pictures : MOUSAI, MUSAE, MUSE 17 January 2010 9:16 UTC www.theoi.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ As daughters of Zeus and Plusia we find mention of four Muses, viz.- MUSES : Greek goddesses of music poetry & the arts ; mythology ; pictures : MOUSAI, MUSAE, MUSE 17 January 2010 9:16 UTC www.theoi.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Rackham) (Roman rhetorician C1st B.C.) : "[Cicero sets out several traditions concerning the goddess Mousai] Again the first set of Musae are four, the daughters of the second Jupiter [i.e.- MUSES : Greek goddesses of music poetry & the arts ; mythology ; pictures : MOUSAI, MUSAE, MUSE 17 January 2010 9:16 UTC www.theoi.com [Source type: Original source]
One of the persons frequently associated with the Muses was
Pierus.
.^ Neilo, Tritone, Asopo, Heptapora, Achelois, Tipoplo, and Rhodia (Tzetz.- MUSES : Greek goddesses of music poetry & the arts ; mythology ; pictures : MOUSAI, MUSAE, MUSE 17 January 2010 9:16 UTC www.theoi.com [Source type: Original source]
^ NETE, MESE, HYPATE (Plutarch Symposium 9.14) [3.2] KEPHISO, APOLLONIS, BORYSTHENIS (Eumelus Frag 35, Tzetzes) [4.1] NEILO, TRITONE, ASOPO, HEPTAPORA, AKHELOIS, TIPOPLO, RHODIA (Epicharmis, Tzetzes on Hes.- MUSES : Greek goddesses of music poetry & the arts ; mythology ; pictures : MOUSAI, MUSAE, MUSE 17 January 2010 9:16 UTC www.theoi.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Some accounts, again, in which they are called daughters of Pierus, mention seven Muses, viz.- MUSES : Greek goddesses of music poetry & the arts ; mythology ; pictures : MOUSAI, MUSAE, MUSE 17 January 2010 9:16 UTC www.theoi.com [Source type: Original source]
[9]
In one myth, the Muses judged a contest between
Apollo and
Marsyas.
.^ "[Aphrodite] stirred the women in Thrace by love, each to seek Orpheus [son of the Mousa Kalliope] for herself, so that they tore him limb from limb.- MUSES : Greek goddesses of music poetry & the arts ; mythology ; pictures : MOUSAI, MUSAE, MUSE 17 January 2010 9:16 UTC www.theoi.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Grant) (Roman mythographer C2nd A.D.) : "[The Bakkhantes slay Orpheus, son of the Muse Kalliope :] They slew him and dismembered his body .- MUSES : Greek goddesses of music poetry & the arts ; mythology ; pictures : MOUSAI, MUSAE, MUSE 17 January 2010 9:16 UTC www.theoi.com [Source type: Original source]
^ The Musae gathered the scattered limbs and gave them burial, and as the greatest favour they could confer, they put as a memorial his lyre, pictures with stars, among the constellations.- MUSES : Greek goddesses of music poetry & the arts ; mythology ; pictures : MOUSAI, MUSAE, MUSE 17 January 2010 9:16 UTC www.theoi.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ Thamyris, who presumed to excel the Muses, was deprived by them of the gift they had bestowed on him, and punished with blindness.- MUSES : Greek goddesses of music poetry & the arts ; mythology ; pictures : MOUSAI, MUSAE, MUSE 17 January 2010 9:16 UTC www.theoi.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ Back to Top April 17, 2001 From: Melanie Vandermark Subject: Project Muse News: Transactions of the American Philological Association (TAPA) Debuts in Muse .- Project MUSE® - Project MUSE E-Mail Announcement Archive 17 January 2010 9:16 UTC tools.muse.jhu.edu [Source type: Academic]
.^ If we now inquire into the notions entertained about the nature and character of the Muses, we find that, in the Homeric poems, they are the goddesses of song and poetry, and live in Olympus.- MUSES : Greek goddesses of music poetry & the arts ; mythology ; pictures : MOUSAI, MUSAE, MUSE 17 January 2010 9:16 UTC www.theoi.com [Source type: Original source]
Emblems of the Muses
.^ Thamyris, who presumed to excel the Muses, was deprived by them of the gift they had bestowed on him, and punished with blindness.- MUSES : Greek goddesses of music poetry & the arts ; mythology ; pictures : MOUSAI, MUSAE, MUSE 17 January 2010 9:16 UTC www.theoi.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Suzette told her muse she had bad writer's block, So they sat down together and worked through the plot.
.^ Euterpe, the Muse of lyric poetry, with a flute; 4.- MUSES : Greek goddesses of music poetry & the arts ; mythology ; pictures : MOUSAI, MUSAE, MUSE 17 January 2010 9:16 UTC www.theoi.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Later the Mousai were assigned specific artistic spheres: Kalliope, epic poetry; Kleio, history; Ourania, astronomy; Thaleia, comedy; Melpomene, tragedy; Polyhymnia, religious hymns; Erato, erotic poetry; Euterpe, lyric poetry; and Terpsikhore, choral song and dance.- MUSES : Greek goddesses of music poetry & the arts ; mythology ; pictures : MOUSAI, MUSAE, MUSE 17 January 2010 9:16 UTC www.theoi.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Kleio, and Erato who charms the sight, with thee, Euterpe, ministering delight: Thalia flourishing, Polymnia famed, Melpomene from skill in music named: Terpsikhore, Ourania heavenly bright."- MUSES : Greek goddesses of music poetry & the arts ; mythology ; pictures : MOUSAI, MUSAE, MUSE 17 January 2010 9:16 UTC www.theoi.com [Source type: Original source]
Function in society
.^ As Sositheus, writer of tragedies [Greek C3rd B.C.], says, he had his home on Mount Helicon and took his pleasure in the company of the Musae, sometimes even following the pursuit of hunting.- MUSES : Greek goddesses of music poetry & the arts ; mythology ; pictures : MOUSAI, MUSAE, MUSE 17 January 2010 9:16 UTC www.theoi.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Being goddesses of song, they are naturally connected with Apollo, the god of the lyre, who like them instructs the bards, and is mentioned along with them even by Homer.- MUSES : Greek goddesses of music poetry & the arts ; mythology ; pictures : MOUSAI, MUSAE, MUSE 17 January 2010 9:16 UTC www.theoi.com [Source type: Original source]
^ With regard to the number of the Muses, we are informed that originally three were worshipped on Mount Helicon in Boeotia, namely, Melete (meditation), Mneme (memory), and Aoede (song); and their worship and names are said to have been first introduced by Ephialtes and Otus.- MUSES : Greek goddesses of music poetry & the arts ; mythology ; pictures : MOUSAI, MUSAE, MUSE 17 January 2010 9:16 UTC www.theoi.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ All musicians are inspired by those who went before as Muse will inspire those that will come later.- New Muse - "Uprising" - Album Art - Stereogum 17 January 2010 9:16 UTC stereogum.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ MUSES : Greek goddesses of music poetry & the arts ; mythology ; pictures : MOUSAI, MUSAE, MUSE .- MUSES : Greek goddesses of music poetry & the arts ; mythology ; pictures : MOUSAI, MUSAE, MUSE 17 January 2010 9:16 UTC www.theoi.com [Source type: Original source]
^ While this title is accessible by all Muse subscribers, its cost is not included in the price of any Muse package.- Project MUSE® - Project MUSE E-Mail Announcement Archive 17 January 2010 9:16 UTC tools.muse.jhu.edu [Source type: Academic]
.^ Cleio, the Muse of history, appears in a sitting attitude, with an open roll of paper, or an open chest of books; 3.- MUSES : Greek goddesses of music poetry & the arts ; mythology ; pictures : MOUSAI, MUSAE, MUSE 17 January 2010 9:16 UTC www.theoi.com [Source type: Original source]
^ And when a year was passed and the seasons came round as the months waned, and many days were accomplished, she bare nine daughters, all of one mind, whose hearts are set upon song and their spirit free from care, a little way from the topmost peak of snowy Olympos.- MUSES : Greek goddesses of music poetry & the arts ; mythology ; pictures : MOUSAI, MUSAE, MUSE 17 January 2010 9:16 UTC www.theoi.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Thespiae [the town beneath Mount Helikon] and established nine Mousai, changing their names to the present ones .- MUSES : Greek goddesses of music poetry & the arts ; mythology ; pictures : MOUSAI, MUSAE, MUSE 17 January 2010 9:16 UTC www.theoi.com [Source type: Original source]
For poet and "law-giver"
Solon,
[11] the Muses were "the key to the good life"; since they brought both prosperity and friendship. Solon sought to perpetuate his political reforms by establishing recitations of his poetry—complete with invocations to his practical-minded Muses—by Athenian boys at festivals each year. It was believed that the muses would help inspire people to do their best.
Function in literature
.^ Shewring) (Greek epic C8th B.C.) : "[A description of the funeral of Akhilleus :] The daughters of the ancient sea-god [i.e.- MUSES : Greek goddesses of music poetry & the arts ; mythology ; pictures : MOUSAI, MUSAE, MUSE 17 January 2010 9:16 UTC www.theoi.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Shewring) (Greek epic C8th B.C.) : "The Mousa (Muse) .- MUSES : Greek goddesses of music poetry & the arts ; mythology ; pictures : MOUSAI, MUSAE, MUSE 17 January 2010 9:16 UTC www.theoi.com [Source type: Original source]
They have served as aids to an author of prose, too, sometimes represented as
the true speaker, for whom an author is merely a mouthpiece.
[12] Originally, the invocation of the Muse was an indication that the speaker was working inside the poetic tradition, according to the established formulas. Seven classic examples are:
- Homer, in Book I of The Odyssey:
- "Sing to me of the man, Muse, the man of twists and turns
- driven time and again off course, once he had plundered
- the hallowed heights of Troy." (Robert Fagles translation, 1996)
- Virgil, in Book I of the Aeneid:
- O Muse! the causes and the crimes relate;
- What goddess was provok'd, and whence her hate;
- For what offense the Queen of Heav'n began
- To persecute so brave, so just a man; [...]
- (John Dryden translation, 1697)
- Catullus, in Carmen I:
- "And so, have them for yourself, whatever kind of book it is,
- and whatever sort, oh patron Muse
- let it last for more than one generation, eternally."
- (Student translation, 2007)
- Dante Alighieri, in Canto II of The Inferno:
- O Muses, O high genius, aid me now!
- O memory that engraved the things I saw,
- Here shall your worth be manifest to all!
- (Anthony Esolen translation, 2002)
- John Milton, opening of Book 1 of Paradise Lost:
- Of Man’s first disobedience, and the fruit
- Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste
- Brought death into the World, and all our woe,
- With loss of Eden, till one greater Man
- Restore us, and regain the blissful Seat,
- Sing, Heavenly Muse, [...]
- William Shakespeare, Act 1, Prologue of Henry V:
- Chorus: O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend
- The brightest heaven of invention,
- A kingdom for a stage, princes to act
- And monarchs to behold the swelling scene!
- Geoffrey Chaucer, in Book II of Troilus and Criseyde:
- O lady myn, that called art Cleo,
- Thow be my speed fro this forth, and my Muse,
- To ryme wel this book til I haue do;
- Me nedeth here noon othere art to vse.
- ffor-whi to euery louere I me excuse
- That of no sentement I this endite,
- But out of Latyn in my tonge it write.
Modern invocations of the Muses have appeared in a variety of literary and adult video sources.
.^ A lot of new music is pure crap, you really have to wade through it to find the halfway decent stuff, but Muse has real talent.- New Muse - "Uprising" - Album Art - Stereogum 17 January 2010 9:16 UTC stereogum.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
Those five were Clio, Thalia, Melpomene, Calliope, and Terpischore.
.^ All musicians are inspired by those who went before as Muse will inspire those that will come later.- New Muse - "Uprising" - Album Art - Stereogum 17 January 2010 9:16 UTC stereogum.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ MUSE - Great musicians, talented song-writers, definitely trying to push boundaries....- New Muse - "Uprising" - Album Art - Stereogum 17 January 2010 9:16 UTC stereogum.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[13]
Cults of the Muses to modern museums
"Muses
Sarcophagus" shows nine Muses and their attributes, marble, early 2nd century AD, Via Ostiense -
Louvre
When
Pythagoras arrived at
Croton, his first advice to the Crotoniates was to build a shrine to the Muses at the center of the city, to promote civic harmony and learning.
Local cults of the Muses often were associated with springs or fountains. They sometimes were called Aganippids because of their association with a fountain called
Aganippe. Other fountains,
Hippocrene and
Pirene, also were important locations ascribed to the Muses.
.^ There they had a temple and statues, and the Thespians celebrated a solemn festival of the Muses on mount Helicon, called Mouseia (Paus.- MUSES : Greek goddesses of music poetry & the arts ; mythology ; pictures : MOUSAI, MUSAE, MUSE 17 January 2010 9:16 UTC www.theoi.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Eupheme is called the nurse of the Muses, and at the foot of Mount Helicon her statue stood beside that of Linus.- MUSES : Greek goddesses of music poetry & the arts ; mythology ; pictures : MOUSAI, MUSAE, MUSE 17 January 2010 9:16 UTC www.theoi.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ From Boeotia, which thus became the focus of the worship of the nine Muses, it afterwards spread into the adjacent and more distant parts of Greece.- MUSES : Greek goddesses of music poetry & the arts ; mythology ; pictures : MOUSAI, MUSAE, MUSE 17 January 2010 9:16 UTC www.theoi.com [Source type: Original source]
^ In later times Apollo is placed in very close connection with the Muses, for he is described as the leader of the choir of the Muses by the surname Mousagetês.- MUSES : Greek goddesses of music poetry & the arts ; mythology ; pictures : MOUSAI, MUSAE, MUSE 17 January 2010 9:16 UTC www.theoi.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ From Boeotia, which thus became the focus of the worship of the nine Muses, it afterwards spread into the adjacent and more distant parts of Greece.- MUSES : Greek goddesses of music poetry & the arts ; mythology ; pictures : MOUSAI, MUSAE, MUSE 17 January 2010 9:16 UTC www.theoi.com [Source type: Original source]
Many
Enlightenment figures sought to re-establish a "Cult of the Muses" in the eighteenth century. A famous
Masonic lodge in pre-Revolutionary
Paris was called
Les Neuf Soeurs ("nine sisters", that is, the nine Muses), and it was attended by
Voltaire,
Benjamin Franklin,
Danton, and other influential Enlightenment figures. One side-effect of this movement was the use of the word "museum" (originally, "cult place of the Muses") to refer to a place for the public display of knowledge.
The Muse-poet
Thalia, muse of comedy, holding a comic mask - detail of “Muses Sarcophagus”, the nine Muses and their attributes; marble, early second century AD, Via Ostiense -
Louvre
The British poet
Robert Graves popularized the concept of the Muse-poet in modern times. His concept was based on pre-twelfth century traditions of the Celtic poets, the tradition of the medieval troubadours who celebrated the concept of
courtly love, and the
romantic poets.
"No Muse-poet grows conscious of the Muse except by experience of a woman in whom the Goddess is to some degree resident; just as no Apollonian poet can perform his proper function unless he lives under a monarchy or a quasi-monarchy. A Muse-poet falls in love, absolutely, and his true love is for him the embodiment of the Muse...
But the real, perpetually obsessed Muse-poet distinguishes between the Goddess as manifest in the supreme power, glory, wisdom, and love of woman, and the individual woman whom the Goddess may make her instrument...
The Goddess abides; and perhaps he will again have knowledge of her through his experience of another woman...[14]
The "tenth Muse"
.^ Muse lyrics being silly are a given.- New Muse - "Uprising" - Album Art - Stereogum 17 January 2010 9:16 UTC stereogum.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
The phrase has become a somewhat conventional compliment paid to female poets since. In Callimachus' "Aetia", the poet refers to Queen
Berenike, wife of Ptolemy II, as a "Tenth Muse", dedicating both the 'Coma Berenikes' and the 'Victoria Berenikes' in Books III-IV. French critics have acclaimed a series of
dixième Muses who were noted by
William Rose Benet in
The Reader's Encyclopedia (1948): Marie Lejars de Gournay (1566–1645),
Antoinette Deshoulières (1633–1694),
Madeleine de Scudéry (1607–1701), and
Delphine Gay (1804–1855).
Gabriele d'Annunzio's 1920 Constitution for the
Free State of Fiume was based around the nine Muses and invoked
Energeia (energy) as "the tenth Muse". In 1924,
Karol Irzykowski published a monograph on cinematography entitled "The Tenth Muse" ("Dziesiąta muza"). Analyzing
silent film, he pronounced his definition of cinema: "It is the visibility of man's interaction with reality".
In
The Tenth Muse: A historical study of the opera libretto Patrick J. Smith
[15] implicitly suggests that the libretto be considered as the tenth muse. The claim, if made explicit, is that the relation of word and music as constituted by the libretto is not only of significant import, but that the critical appreciation of that relation constitutes a crucial element in the understanding of opera.
.^ Reply Score = 0 How can people say that Muse copy, everyone knows they have their own distinct style.- New Muse - "Uprising" - Album Art - Stereogum 17 January 2010 9:16 UTC stereogum.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
the poet asks, and in the opening of the
sestet calls upon his muse:
.^ From Boeotia, which thus became the focus of the worship of the nine Muses, it afterwards spread into the adjacent and more distant parts of Greece.- MUSES : Greek goddesses of music poetry & the arts ; mythology ; pictures : MOUSAI, MUSAE, MUSE 17 January 2010 9:16 UTC www.theoi.com [Source type: Original source]
^ For the Thrakians had the reputation of old of being more clever than the Makedonians, and in particular of being not so careless in religious matters.- MUSES : Greek goddesses of music poetry & the arts ; mythology ; pictures : MOUSAI, MUSAE, MUSE 17 January 2010 9:16 UTC www.theoi.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Not to mention Muse is a far more versatile band than Nirvana.- New Muse - "Uprising" - Album Art - Stereogum 17 January 2010 9:16 UTC stereogum.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
References
- ^ Modern Greek οι μούσες, i moúses.
- ^ from which mind and mental are also derived; so OED
- ^ Reported to Pausanias in the second century AD (noted in Karl Kerenyi, The Gods of the Greeks, 1951, p.104 and note 284. Kerenyi offers the suggestion, from Hesiod's own practice, that their names had been Melete, "practicing", Mneme, "remembering", and Aoide, "singing".
- ^ Diodorus Siculus, 4.7.1-2 (on-line text)
- ^ Diodorus, Plutarch and Pausanias are all noted by Susan Scheinberg, in reporting other Hellenic maiden triads, in "The Bee Maidens of the Homeric Hymn to Hermes" Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, 83 (1979:1-28) p. 2.
- ^ Ovid, Metamorphoses 5.677-78: "Now their previous eloquence also remained in the birds, as well as their strident chattering and their great zeal for speaking." See also (Antoninus Liberalis 9.
- ^ OED derives "amuse" from French a ("from") + muser, "to stare stupidly" or distractedly.
- ^ Pausanias, Description of Greece 9.29.1.
- ^ TheoiProject: Muses
- ^ Strabo 10.3.10.
- ^ Solon, fragment 13.
- ^ This is an ancient convention: the Mesopotamian epic Atra-Hasis is represented as dictated by the Goddess in a dream-vision.
- ^ "muse". The Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary. Retrieved February 15, 2009.
- ^ Robert Graves, The White Goddess, a historical grammar of poetic myth.
- ^ Smith, Patrick J., (1970) The Tenth Muse: A historical study of the opera libretto, New York, Alfred. A. Knopf
- ^ Shakespeare, Sonnet 38.
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