
The Muses
In Our Time
The Importance of Musa K
Socrates' last words to Apollo were: "Go and make music, Musa Gettis" The term has become the generic term for all what I would call high culture. Vermeer thinks that the muse of painters is Clio - because he's the muse of history. But did Socrates invoke a muse in order to inspire him? He chose five comely virgins as his Helen.
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