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The Muses

In Our Time

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The Debased Use of the Muses

The Roman poets were able both to invoke the muses and pay tribute to their patrons. But we are moving towards the muses as allocrites, which of course is going to be developed by the Christian writers. Are there Paul Cartlidge at this stage losing their divine powers? Under the Roman, of course, under the Christians, they're totally out of court.

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