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MUSAEUS , the name of three See also:

Greek poets. (1) The first wasa mythical seer and See also:priest, the See also:pupil or son of See also:Orpheus, who was said to have been the founder of priestly See also:poetry in See also:Attica. According to See also:Pausanias (i. 25) he was buried on the Museum See also:hill, See also:south-See also:west of the See also:Acropolis. He composed dedicatory and purificatory See also:hymns and See also:prose See also:treatises, and oracular responses. These were collected and arranged in the See also:time of See also:Peisistratus by See also:Onomacritus, who added interpolations. The mystic and oracular verses and customs of Attica, especially of See also:Eleusis, are connected with his name (See also:Herod. vii. 6; viii. 96; ix. 43). A Titanomachia and Theogonia are also attributed to him (G. See also:Kinkel, Epicorum graecorum fragmenta, 1878).

(2) The second was an Ephesian attached to the See also:

court of the See also:kings of See also:Pergamum, who wrote a Perseis, and poems on See also:Eumenes and Attalus (SuIdas, s.v.). (3) The third (called Grammaticus in all the See also:MSS.) is of uncertain date, but probably belongs to the beginning of the 6th See also:century A.D., as his See also:style and See also:metre are evidently modelled after See also:Nonnus. He must have lived before See also:Agathias (530—582) and is possibly to be identified with the friend of See also:Procopius whose poem (340 See also:hexameter lines) on the See also:story of See also:Hero and Leander is by far the most beautiful of the See also:age (See also:editions by F. See also:Passow, rho; G. H. Schafer, 1825; C. Dilthey, 1874). The little love-poem See also:Alpheus and See also:Arethusa (Anthol. See also:pal. ix. 362) is also ascribed to Musaeus.

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