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noted a theory that the Musaeus who is named as the author of the Theogony and Sphaera was a different person from the legendary bard of the same name, but he suggests that there is not any evidence to support that view. The poem on the loves of
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He was reputed to belong to the family of the Eumolpidae, being the son of Eumolpus and Selene. In other variations of the myth he was less definitely called a
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A hymn to Demeter – this composition is set down by Pausanias as the only genuine production of Musaeus extant in his day
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collected and arranged the oracles of Musaeus but inserted forgeries of his own devising, later detected by
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describes him thus: "Musaeus, too, thy holy citizen, of all men most advanced in lore."
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This article is about the legendary poet. For the author of "Hero and Leander", see
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says: "What would not a man give if he might converse with Orpheus and Musaeus and
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We find the following poetical compositions, accounted as his among the ancients:—
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Schol. ad Arist. l.c. ; Plat. Respubl. ii. p. 364, extr.
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and Homer? Nay, if this be true, let me die again and again."
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he was the disciple of Orpheus. Others made him the son of
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also quotes some verses of Musaeus in Book VIII of his
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Schol. ad Soph. Oed. Col. 1047; Suid. s. v. Μουσαῖος.
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Musaeus Grammaticus

Linus
tondo
kylix
Eretria Painter
Paris
Louvre
Greek
polymath
Attica
hymns
Olen
Orpheus
Pamphus
Eleusis
Thracian
Diodorus Siculus
Tatian
Antiphemus
Helena
Alexander Polyhistor
Clement of Alexandria
Eusebius
Deioce
Hermesianax
Antiope
Suda
Eumolpus
Phalerum

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