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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 43 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MUSAEUS  , the name of three

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

(2) The second was an Ephesian attached to the

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

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