Musaeus
mythological figure · 11 works · 14 mentions · 19 anchored passages
Musaeus and his son · son of light-bringing Mene
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Stromata
Musaeus, legendary poet and pupil of Orpheus, whose ascribed oracles are argued to be later forgeries by Onomacritus.
And the oracles ascribed to Musaeus they say are Onomacritus';
Under Acrisius were the crossing of Pelops from Phrygia, and the arrival of Ion at Athens, and the second Cecrops, and the deeds of Perseus and of Dionysus, and Orpheus and Musaeus.
And if anyone tells us that Phemonoe first delivered oracles to Acrisius, let him know that twenty-seven years after Phemonoe came Orpheus and Musaeus and Linus, the teacher of Heracles.
The Histories
Legendary early poet-seer to whom a body of oracles is attributed; his oracles are edited and selectively recited by Onomacritus to persuade Xerxes.
They had come up to Sardis with Onomacritus, an Athenian diviner who had set in order the oracles of Musaeus.
Now he had arrived at Susa with the Pisistratidae, and whenever he came into the king's presence they used lofty words concerning him and he recited from his oracles;
Thus not only was all the rest of the oracle fulfilled which Bacis and Musaeus had spoken about this battle, but also what had been said many years before this in an oracle by Lysistratus, an Athenian soothsayer, concerning the wrecks carried to shore there.
On the Nature of the Gods
Legendary poet whose fables Chrysippus reinterprets to align with Stoic doctrine.
while in the second he sets out to accommodate the fables of Orpheus, Musaeus, Hesiod, and Homer to what he himself had said in the first book about the immortal gods, so that even the most ancient poets, who never so much as suspected these things, may seem to have been Stoics.
Tusculan Disputations
Legendary poet associated with Orpheus.
And to be permitted to converse with Orpheus, Musaeus, Homer, Hesiod — at how much, pray, do you value it?
Protrepticus
Legendary figure addressed by Orpheus as 'son of light-bringing Mene,' the recipient of his recanted teaching.
But you, hearken, son of light-bringing Mene, Musaeus;
Rhesus
A legendary Athenian poet and sage said to have been guided by the Muses and Apollo.
We and Apollo guided all his way:
Musaeus, wisest of the tribes of men,
Apology
Legendary poet of Greek myth associated with Orpheus
Or again, what would any of you give to meet with Orpheus and Musaeus and Hesiod and Homer?
Protagoras
A legendary poet-prophet associated with Orpheus, named by Protagoras among early disguised sophists.
Now I tell you that sophistry is an ancient art, and those men of ancient times who practised it, fearing the odium it involved, disguised it in a decent dress, sometimes of poetry, as in the case of Homer, Hesiod, and Simonides sometimes of mystic rites and soothsayings, as did Orpheus, Musaeus and their sects;
Republic
Legendary poet, said to be offspring of the Moon and Muses, credited with books used in purification rituals.
And Musaeus and his son have a more excellent song than these of the blessings that the gods bestow on the righteous.
And they produce a bushel of books of Musaeus and Orpheus, the offspring of the Moon and of the Muses, as they affirm, and these books they use in their ritual, and make not only ordinary men but states believe that there really are remissions of sins and purifications for deeds of injustice, by means of sacrifice and pleasant sport for the living, and that there are also special rites for the def …
Apologeticum
Legendary figure credited with founding initiations at Athens.
To meet the Greeks — Orpheus at Pieria, Musaeus at Athens, Melampus at Argos, Trophonius in Boeotia bound men by their initiations.
De Anima
Legendary poet counted among reputed authors of sacred writings.
It has, indeed, seemed to itself to have drawn even from the sacred writings, as they call them, because antiquity reckoned most of its authors to be even gods, let alone divine men — such as the Egyptian Mercury, to whom Plato especially attached himself;