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MUSAEUS
, the name of three See also:Greek poets
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(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
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According to See also:Pausanias (i
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25) he was buried on the Museum See also: (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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