![]() All the people look towards him while he settles causes with true judgements: and he, speaking surely, would soon make wise end even of a great quarrel for therefore are there princes wise in heart, because when the people are being misguided in their assembly, they set right the matter again with ease, persuading them with gentle words. Kalliope (Calliope), who is the chiefest of them all, for she attends on worshipful princes: whomsoever of heaven-nourished princes the daughters of great Zeus honour, and behold him at his birth, they pour sweet dew upon his tongue, and from his lips flow gracious words. For though a man have sorrow and grief in his newly-troubled soul and live in dread because his heart is distressed, yet, when a singer, the servant of the Mousai, chants the glorious deeds of men of old and the blessed gods who inhabit Olympos, at once he forgets his heaviness and remembers not his sorrows at all but the gifts of the goddesses soon turn him away from these. "It is through the Mousai (Muses) and far-shooting Apollon that there are singers and harpers upon the earth but princes are of Zeus, and happy is he whom the Mousai love : sweet flows speech from his mouth. Evelyn-White) (Greek epic C8th or C7th B.C.) : See also Muses & the Inspiration of Poets, Writers & Bards (below) The Mouseia ("Museums") were the libraries of ancient Greece which also doubled as religious sanctuaries for the goddesses. The nine books of the Herodotus' Histories, for example, were each named after one of the nine Mousai. In the late classical era their role was expanded to encompass a variety of arts including rhetoric, philosophy, mathematics, geography, history and astronomy. The Mousai (Muses) were originally goddesses of music, poetry, eloquence and song. This page describes their divine aspects.ĬLASSICAL LITERATURE QUOTES MUSES GODDESSES OF MUSIC, SONG, DANCE & THE ARTS THE MOUSAI (Muses) were the goddesses of music, poetry and inspiration. Muse, Muses Winged Muse with lyre, Athenian red-figure lekythos C5th B.C., Blanton Museum of Art
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