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Muses
The Muses were the Greek goddesses of poetry, music and the arts, daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne, usually counted as nine. Their chief sanctuaries were on Mount Helicon in Boeotia, where Thespiae held the Mouseia festival in their honour, and at Pieria near Mount Olympus. Poets invoked them for inspiration, and the word museum derives from their name.
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- The Epoch Institute. (2026). Muses. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/muses
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