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MOMUS , in See also:Greek See also:mythology, the son of NR (See also:Night), the personification of censoriousness. He is frequently mentioned in See also:Lucian as the lampooner of the gods. It is said that See also:Pallas, See also:Hephaestus, and See also:Poseidon entered into a competition as to which of them could create the most useful thing. Hephaestus made a See also:man, Poseidon an ox, Pallas a See also:house. Momus, being called upon to pronounce an See also:opinion as to the merits of these productions, expressed dissatisfaction with all: with the man, because a window ought to have been made in his See also:breast, through which his See also:heart could be seen; with the ox, because its horns were in the wrong See also:place; with the house, because it ought to have been portable, so as to be easily moved to avoid unpleasant neighbours. Momus is reported to have burst with chagrin at being unable to find any but the most trifling defects in See also:Aphrodite. He is represented sometimes as a See also:young, sometimes as an old man, wearing a See also:mask, and carrying a See also:fool's See also:bauble. See also:Hesiod, Theogony, 214; Lucian, Hermotimus, 20, and especially Deorum Concilium; See also:Philostratus, Epistolae, 37. End of Article: MOMUSAdditional information and CommentsThere are no comments yet for this article.
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