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The Muses

In Our Time

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The Hierarchy of Muses in Ancient Greece

The ancient Greek world was heavily male-dominated, and it probably wasn't an invention of women. The muses act as a sort of midwife for the inspire, and then the males produce either poetry, or astronomy, or medicine. And moosa comes, as you've already said, to apply to all high culture. So that you are moosaios as angi, just that means you're infused with the muse,. You're filam moosos, you love high culture,  or conversely, amoosos, means you're a barbarian, a kind of savage, you're unintellectual.

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