Mousa 'Muse'

In this verse, which can be translated ‘tell me now, you Muses who have your dwellings on Mount Olympus’, we see a rhyming of … Mousai, situated before the primary mid-verse word-b ... Continue reading

reference to instances of the line ‘tell, Muse!’ (See Martin 1989.238)lemmatizing: ἔσπετε νῦν μοι Μοῦσαι Ὀλύμπια δώματ' ἔχουσαιIt has already been noted in the comment on I.02 ... Continue reading

reference to instances of the line ‘tell, Muse!’ (See Martin 1989.238)lemmatizing: ἔσπετε νῦν μοι Μοῦσαι Ὀλύμπια δώματ' ἔχουσαιThis re-invocation of the Muses signals a false ... Continue reading

ἔσπετε νῦν μοι Μοῦσαι Ὀλύμπια δώματ' ἔχουσαι: On the use of the plural (Μοῦσαι) here, see the comment on I.02.484. I repeat here the translation: ‘tell me now, you Muses who have y ... Continue reading

By saying ‘tell me, Muse’, the Master Narrator is saying that the song that he will perform is something that he hears from a goddess who is invoked here as a singular Mousa ‘Muse’ ... Continue reading