
The Muses
In Our Time
The Relationship Between Poets and Muses
When these individual muses were named, was that some sort of liberation? Well, instead of being the muses, they were particular muses for particular things. Not unlike later Saints in the Roman Catholic Church, a particular sense to Christ. Steven Spielberg thinks that Mark Rylands is his muse, for example. But Pindar refers to the muses both clearly. What did he do before he met Mark Rylands then? I won't answer that on air.
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