Muse(s)
deity figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 10 anchored passages
Muses · Muse · Pierian daughters of Zeus · Queenly Muse · daughter of Zeus · daughters of the Muses · the Muse
spoken of as
1 expressionin the texts
Nemean
The goddesses of poetic inspiration, repeatedly invoked as patronesses and sources of the victory song itself.
Queenly Muse, our mother!
The Muse loves to remember great contests.
The most beautiful chorus of Muses sang gladly for the Aeacids on Mt.
Olympian
The goddesses of poetic inspiration, invoked at the ode's opening as guarantors of truth and repeatedly credited with sustaining victors' fame through song.
There, Muses, join in the victory-song;
But come, Muse, you and the daughter of Zeus, unforgetting Truth:
I have come as a willing champion of the Muses on their splendid thrones and of the race of Oligaethus.