
The Muses
In Our Time: Philosophy
Hesiot and the Muses
Hesiot describes the muses as living. This is just soon after Homer's Theogony. They breathe into him a divine voice so that he can sing of the past and the future. We know how to tell many psu-de-are things that look like the truth. But for Hesiot, he's using that to say that he himself is speaking the truth. And they order him to sing about the gods and about themselves. So they're ordering him to sing his own poem, which he'd started off.
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