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The Muses

In Our Time

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Hesiod's Vision of the Truth

Hesiod says he met the muses on his way to Mount Helikana. But it's a kind of almost an auditory hallucination because he hears them. If you believe in nymphs, you're quite likely to meet them. And they establish divinity by saying we can tell the truth when we want to.

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