Helicon
place · 6 works · 7 mentions · 9 anchored passages
Helicon's high hills · lovely Helicon
in the texts
De Rerum Natura
Mount Helicon, the Greek mountain sacred to the Muses, from which Ennius is said to have brought the first laurel wreath of poetry to the Italian world.
Who first from lovely Helicon brought down
By fetid odour of its very flower.
There is, again, on Helicon's high hills
Stromata
Mountain associated with the Muses, said to be the first Sibyl's origin.
They say, at any rate, that at Delphi, near the council-chamber, a certain rock is shown, on which the first Sibyl is said to have sat, who came from Helicon and was reared by the Muses.
Orations
Mountain site of the tripod inscription recording Hesiod's poetic victory dedication.
'Hesiod dedicated this to the Heliconian Muses, having conquered divine Homer in a contest of song at Chalcis'?
Heracles
Mountain sacred to the Muses, named first as a timber source for Lycus's pyre and later invoked in the celebratory hymn for Heracles.
O Pythian rock with forests crowned, and haunts of the Muses on Helicon!
Calling to his servants Go, some to Helicon, others to the glens of Parnassus, and bid woodmen to cut me logs of oak, and when they are brought to the town, pile up a stack of wood all round the altar on either side, and set fire to it and burn them all alive, that they may learn that the dead no longer rules this land, but that for the present I am king.
Works and Days
A mountain region near which the narrator's father settled and where the narrator dedicates his poetic prize to the Muses of Helicon.
he left Aeolian Cyme and fled, not from riches and substance, but from wretched poverty which Zeus lays upon men, and he settled near Helicon in a miserable hamlet,
And there I boast that I gained the victory with a song and carried off a handled tripod which I dedicated to the Muses of Helicon, in the place where they first set me in the way of clear song.
Epigrams
A place associated here with Poseidon's rule.
Hear me, Poseidon, strong shaker of the earth, ruler of wide-spread, tawny Helicon!